Sam Wells (filmmaker) explained

Sam Wells (November 4, 1950 – June 3, 2011) was an American experimental filmmaker and photographer based in Princeton, New Jersey. He is best known for the film Wired Angel (1999),^[1] an avant-garde feature inspired by the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Filmed on high-contrast black-and-white reversal film^[2] and featuring a musical score written by Academy Award-winning composer Joe Renzetti, Wired Angel was well received at underground film festivals in both Chicago^[3] and New York,^{[2] [4]} with Film Threat magazine naming it one of the best unseen films of 2001.^[5]

Wells' 1990 short film The Talking Rain played at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.^[6] He exhibited sections of his Vietnam-inspired film and digital media installation Fragrance of Ghosts at William Paterson University in 2007.^[7]

Wells was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.^[8] In 2006, he was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.^[9]

Filmography

• Early Shorts (1974–1979)
  • Endymion
  • Woman of Light
  • Angels of Winter
  • Miari Miare Remir
  • Self Portrait
  • Crucifixion/Lux in diafana
  • Landscape
  • Realm
• The Talking Rain (1990)
• Wired Angel (1999)
• Lucent Membranes (2008–2011)

Installations

• Fragrance of Ghosts/Huong (2004–2011)
  • Kieu
  • Vinh Long Garden
  • The Willow Sees The Heron's Image Upside-Down

References

1. Web site: Wired Angel (1999). 1 November 1999. IMDb.
2. Web site: 2001 NYUFF: Day 4: Back Against the Wall. 11 March 2001.
3. Web site: Chicago Underground Film Festival. Chicago Reader. 17 August 2000.
4. Web site: Surreal Endgames, Seedy Glamour. Dennis Lim. 21 January 2008. villagevoice.com.
5. Web site: Features | Film Threat.
6. Web site: The Talking Rain. sundance.org.
7. Web site: William Paterson University . 2011-06-08 . dead . https://archive.today/20070517020400/http://ww2.wpunj.edu/adminsrv/pub-info/Releases07/07_NJSCA_exhibit.htm . 2007-05-17 .
8. Web site: John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Fellows. gf.org.
9. Web site: The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100703123152/http://www.njartscouncil.org/news_archive_pr_detail.cfm?id=20. 2010-07-03.

External links

• Sam Wells Official Website
• Wired Angel at the Internet Movie Database
• Review of Wired Angel at Film Threat (Phil Hall)
• The Talking Rain | Archives | Sundance Institute