Anita Thacher
1940 - 2017She was the recipient of numerous grants and awards among them are The National Endowment for the Arts (four grants), The New York State Council on the Arts (five grants), The Ford Foundation, The American Film Institute, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The New York Women in Film and Television Preservation Fund.
Public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, The Museum of Modern Art, Arsenal, Internationales Forum des Jungen Films among others.
Her films are distributed by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Arsenal, Berlin and Light Cone, Paris among others. Her prints are available through The Metropolitan Museum of Art store and VanDeb Editions. Anita Thacher is represented by Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.
National and international exhibitions include The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The New York Film Festival, P.S.1, The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jeu de Paume, Paris and The Whitney Museum of American Art among others.
Ms. Thacher was a MacDowell Colony Fellow, former member of its Board and a Civitella Ranieri Fellow.
Lost / In Memoriam
Anita Thacher
A tribute to, and evocation of women no longer alive. The rituals of their daily lives are honored and memorialized through transformed images of flowers, woods, water and more. (Anita Thacher) LOST/ IN MEMORIAM's non-narrative domestic and natural imagery progresses through the rhythms and emotions of the accompanying piano music by Robert Aldridge. The rituals of women's daily lives are honored and memorialized. «...Anita Thacher's elegant, abstract tribute, LOST/ IN MEMORIAM: stylized images of tulips and waving grasses whose splendid sensuality are an apt elegy for the creative lives of friends loved and lost. Thacher evocatively quotes Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own): 'Great poets do not die; they are continuing presences.' Her film is dedicated to Francesca Woodman, Susan Loda, Susan Brockman, Yvonne Vera and Barbara Jarvis.» (Karen Cooper, Film Forum)
Lost / In Memoriam
Loose Corner
Anita Thacher
Catherine Lloyd, Owen Roth
Mysterious cinematographic events unfold in a very neat little space, like a theatre. A ball gets bigger and bigger and then suddenly disappears: there’s a dog a good head or two taller than a child; a young woman miniscule one second is huge the next… We don’t get it, but just enjoy taking part in a phantasmagorical experience like an audience in the early days of cinema, with filmmakers that have made an illusion out of this art.
Loose Corner
Chase
Anita Thacher
Chase has appropriated the masterful car chase scene from Bullitt . The manipulation of the scene’s images and sounds allows the viewer to discover the classic film scene anew. The reconfigurations expose the artistry of the sequencing of shots and edits and the rhythms of the scene.
Chase
Cut
Anita Thacher
CUT appropriates 6 classic black and white Hollywood film clips from the 30's and 40s. The images and the sound are reconfigured through graphic and sequential interventions. The disruptions refocus and enhance our attention to latent aspects of the films and compel us to watch with heightened awareness and new appreciation.
Cut
