Edin Velez Explained

Edin Velez
Birth Place:Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Known For:Video Art, Director

Edin Velez is a Puerto Rican video artist, director and professor.[1] [2] He is best known for his work on the documentary films State of Rest and Motion and Dance of Darkness.[3] [4]

Life and career

Edin was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is currently based in New York. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.[5] He moved to the US in the early 1970s and became part of the first generation of video artists working in SoHo, Manhattan.[6] [7] His directorial debut documentary film on Japanese Butoh, Dance of Darkness, was broadcast nationally in the US by PBS.[8] He is a professor and coordinator of the video program at Rutgers University–Newark.[9]

Edin has received numerous award, including American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S./Japan Friendship Commission, the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.[10] [11] [12]

Selected exhibitions

Edin's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, documenta 8, American Film Institute National Video Festival, Museum of Modern Art and International Center of Photography.[13] [14] [15]

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorCinematographerNotes
2017State of Rest and MotionEditor and producer
2012My Brooklyn
2009Never Enough
2009RFK in the Land of Apartheid
2007A Certain Foolish Consistency Producer
2002This and That, and other Minor MisunderstandingsEditor and producer
1995Memory of Fire
1992Art on Film, Program 3: Form
1990A Mosque in Time[16]
1989Dance of DarknessMuseum of Modern Art
1987Meaning of the IntervalMuseum of Modern Art[17]
1984AS IS
1984Oblique Strategist
1981Meta Mayan IIMuseum of Modern Art
1978TULEMuseum of Modern Art

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Edin Velez interview Puerto Rican video artist. ejumpcut.org. 2019-02-16.
  2. Web site: Edin Velez, Rutgers Professor, has film premiere at Museum of Modern Art. acm.newark.rutgers.edu. 2019-02-16.
  3. Web site: NEW DOCUMENTARY TURNS NEW YORK'S SUBWAYS INTO A DREAMLAND. pdnonline.com. 2019-02-16.
  4. Web site: Dance of Darkness. eai.org. 2019-02-16.
  5. Book: Edin Vélez papers and videos, 1970-1994. searchworks.stanford.edu. 2019-02-16.
  6. Web site: VIDEO PRODUCTION FACULTY. acm.newark.rutgers.edu. 2019-02-16.
  7. Book: Edin Vélez papers and videos, 1970-1994. searchworks.stanford.edu. 2019-02-22.
  8. Web site: New Television; New Television, Episode 508; Dance of Darkness. openvault.wgbh.org. 2019-02-16.
  9. Web site: Edin Velez . sasn.rutgers.edu. 2019-02-16.
  10. Web site: Underground Film History: AFI's Maya Deren Award. undergroundfilmjournal.com. 2019-02-16.
  11. Web site: EDIN VELEZ. gf.org. 2019-02-16.
  12. Web site: Edin Vélez . archive.jeromefdn.org. 2019-02-16.
  13. Web site: New EAI Releases. vasulka.org. 2019-02-16.
  14. Web site: Edin Vélez. moma.org. 2019-02-16.
  15. Web site: ABOUT JAPAN. icp.org. 23 February 2016 . 2019-02-16.
  16. Web site: MOSQUE IN TIME, A. artfilm.org. 2019-02-16.
  17. Web site: Meaning of the Interval. moma.org. 2019-02-22.