Pip Chodorov

Charlemagne 2: Piltzer

Pip Chodorov

Charlemagne Palestine

Pip Chodorov's "Charlemagne 2: Piltzer" is a tour de force of hand-processed film which documents a Palestine piano concert. Chodorov uses flicker, negative/positive imagery, different printing techniques and colored filters to produce a film that is a true merging of sound and vision. - Frequent Small Meals

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Pip Chodorov

Pip Chodorov, Stan Brakhage

Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, taking the very personal point of view of someone who grew up as part of the experimental film community.

Imaginary Friend

Pip Chodorov

"This film is close to End Memory. Under the shock of a recent break-up I built a film with similar elements: a day of nostalgia in the countryside, the picking of blackberries, the meal, having fun with friends, at the edge of the pond, the sunset, the memory of a moment when everything was fine. It's also my only film since End Memory with my own music." (PC)

La Photographe

Pip Chodorov

A complement to the previous film (Numéro 4, 1989) : the fictional hero has the power to stop the projector, returning the cinema to its photographic origins, killing its motion. Having the unfortunate idea of taking his self-portrait, he finds himself caught in a photograph, condemned to live in the fleeting reality of the single frame.

Strainul

Pip Chodorov

Romanian fairy tales usually start with the sentence: “Once upon a time something happened, if it hadn’t happened it couldn’t be told.” In this fairy tale, a stranger visits the remote mountain village of Slon.

Patrick Bokanowski : visite à l'atelier

Pip Chodorov

Patrick Bokanowski, Michèle Bokanowski

In this documentary, under the gaze of Pip Chodorov, Patrick Bokanowski evokes the genesis of his films and shows, by explaining them, a certain number of his inspirations (his meeting with the painter Henri Dimier , his first photographic tests...), his tools (lenses, title bench, masks, costumes...), his attempts, such as this idea of ​​filming the moving reflection of a mercury surface.

Butterfly Experiment

Pip Chodorov

A figure with two wings on a church's roof. An opera is suggested, Madame Butterfly. A silent poem that combines effect and (angelical) truth...

Jacques Perconte - Decompositions

Pip Chodorov

Pip Chodorov's profile of Jacques Perconte

Charlemagne 3 : Pastrami Recordings

Pip Chodorov

Charlemagne Palestine, New York musician in Brussels, and Pip Chodorov, film-maker from New York in Paris, evoke their home town through images filmed in 16 mm, sounds taken over the years, songs, electronic music, as well as a new composition of Charlemagne Palestine: The Pastrami Recordings.

Patrick Bokanowski - Genèse d'Un rêve solaire

Pip Chodorov

Patrick Bokanowski

Short documentary by Pip Chodorov showing Patrick Bokanowski's process in making "Un rêve solaire".

Cinexpérimentaux #4: Pip Chodorov

Frédérique Devaux, Michel Amarger

Pip Chodorov

Portrait, alternating interviews and extracted from Pip Chodorov's films who evokes its conception of the experimental movies, the links of some of his films with photography. Their character, sometimes improvised, sometimes composed. He’s and editor's activities of videocassettes Re: Voir.

Le photographe

Pip Chodorov

Research complementary to that of the previous film: the fictional hero has the power to stop the projector, plunging the cinema back into its photographic origins, killing movement. Having had the unfortunate idea of ​​taking his self-portrait, he finds himself locked in a photo, condemned to live in this fleeting reality of the photogram.

US Rushes

Pip Chodorov

Three weeks of travel in the USA in June 1997: New York, Vermont, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, edited entirely in camera and projected with music from the 60s.

Making of Dyn Amo

Pip Chodorov, Gloria Morano

short documentary about the making of Dyn Amo

Charlemagne

Pip Chodorov

In June 22sd 1998, Charlemagne Palestine was invited to perform at Bretigny sur Orge for the Captain Pip’s evenings. He asked me to attend as Captain Pip in order to participate in his performance.

Numéro 4

Pip Chodorov

The single frame is the only visible unit in film, yet it is nearly invisible. To see a single frame goes against the nature of cinema; even if that is its very nature. If every frame holds the same image, there will be no movement; if they are completely different from each other, there will be no movement either, but chaos. By using a still camera like a film camera and a film camera like a still camera, Numero 4 rides on the edge between film and photography. One unedited super-8 camera roll.