Ina Diane Archer
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INA DIANE ARCHER
Born Paris, France
Education
2000MA, Cinema Studies New York University
1991NYU-SCE, Certificate in Film Production
1985BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Film/Video, Providence, RI
Residencies/Grants
2005Creative Capital Foundation Grant, Film/Video, NYC
2001Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center: Artists-in-Residence
1996/7Whitney Museum Independent Study Program: Studio Artist
1995Film/Video ArtsArtist-in-Residence: w/ mentor, Cheryl Dunye.
Exhibition/Screening History
2006Mr. Bad Guy & Black Ants Title Sequence, collages and a single channel video, 2006
“Dangling Between the Real Thing and the Sign in the Window” Dam/Stuhltrager Gallery, Curators: Barry Hoggard and James Wagner, NYC October
2005“Restaurant Florent 20th Anniversary Video”
Florent’s Bi-Decadent Retrospective. White ColumnsGallery, NYC October
2004/5FILM SCREENINGS:The Paul R. Jones Collection
Featuring the work of four African American Women. University of Delaware, Newark
"Currents: African American Video Art Today"
Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
"How it Feels /Where it's At" Video Installation,
Heidi Cho Gallery, NYC
"Veni Vidi Video", Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
“Eve” Rush Arts Gallery, NYC
Muddy cup Presents: Independent film Night, NYC
2003The More the Merrier: Viridian Artists & Friends, NYC
1st Annual Prospect Heights Open Studios, NYC
Behind the Green Door IV, NYC
Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Women, Race and Representation: Women artists in the Digital Age, Atlanta, GA
2002Spelman College Museum of Fine Art. Atlanta, GA
Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts: Listen-In Presents Ina Archer and Jeffrey Lependorf/Luca Buvoli,NYC
Behind the Green Door: Spring Art Party, NYC
45 Bleecker Theater DV Lounge:Women Filmmakers, NYC
Freight : Monday Night Shorts, NYC
Ina Diane Archer
2001List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
We Love NY: Art Auction Benefit Charities for 9-11, NYC
2000Arts Interlude Video Wall Program Featuring the works of Film/Video Arts Members, 1251 Ave. of the Americas, NYC
1997Whitney Independent Study Open Studios, NYC
1st Annual New York Women's Film Festival, NYC
199630th Annual New York Expo of Short Films, Experimental Finalist, NYC
Women of Color Film Festival, Santa Cruz, CA
1994Hybrid Identities, Woodstock Center for Photography, NY
The Independent Spirit: Donnell Media Center, NYC
1993Markets of Resistance, White Columns, NYC
199226th Annual NY Exposition of Short Film & Video, Experimental Certificate of Merit,NYC
NYU-SCE Filmmakers Networks Festival II, Anthology Film Archive, NYC
Publications
Upcoming:
Essay on Ina Archer in a book project that discusses the work of 10 African
American women artists (Laylah Ali, Emma Amos, Ellen Gallagher, Julie Dash, Kira Lynn Harris, Margo Humphrey, Howardina Pindell, Renee Stout, Carrie Weems) by Amalia K. Amaki, Curator, The Paul R. Jones Collection and Asst. Professor of Art and Art History at University of Delaware.
Selected Credits + Synopsis
Restaurant Florent 20th Anniversary Video:Activism, Boudins, Can-Cans and Drag Queens 2005
A freeform, irreverent and affectionate celebration, that surveys 20 years of images and events documented on tape of both Restaurant Florent, the Queen of the Meat Packing district and of it’s pioneering owner, Florent Morellet.
The montages draw from Halloween performances, Bastille Day extravaganzas linked by footage of the restaurant’s famed façade photographed over the years by international news media, amateur videographers, feature films and television.
Lubitsch Projections: “Lebensbejahend”, Single and double channel projection, 2004. “Saying ‘Yes’ to life”. This confection, inspired by the Lubitsch film, “Monte Carlo” (1930), features a flirtatious black couple (both played by the video-maker) engaging in “affirmative acting”!
“RW” Installation box with single channel video and painting.2004
Ina Archer and Richard Widmark are destined to shoot it out in “RW”!
Using the dream/hallucination structure often associated with "film noir", RW “gazes” at my mother’s favorite actor, Richard Widmark. Cab Calloway and Toshiro Mifune join in.
Ina Diane Archer
Hattie McDaniel: or A Credit to the Motion Picture Industry, 4 channel Video Installation. Director, Editor, Performer, 2002
"I sincerely hope I shall always be a credit to my race and to the motion picture industry," McDaniel said as she accepted the 1st Academy Award given to an African-American for the film Gone with the Wind. A continuity error in a clip of the 1939 Oscars suggests that the "documentary" footage and her speech were re-staged.
Ina_dustrial: Ode to Robert Evans, Video 2003
A reel emulating the inimitable playboy producer introduces Ina Archer's studio "product" for 2003.
Mein Schatz no. 2 : Bête Noire, Installation box with single channel video and paintings.2003
A flirtation with wunderkind director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Richard Harris Music Video, Video. Director, Editor, Performer. 2002/3
What if Angry-Young Man, Thespian and rugby player, Richard Harris, made a music video?
Marshmallow Bunnies Music Video, “Too Many Creeps Peeps” Director/Editor
Rudolph Valentino Music Video, “Kashmiri Love Song” Performer/Director/Editor 2002
A Minstrel Show, Multi-screen video installations, Writer, director, editor
Modeled on the 19th c. minstrel show this installation examines the interrelationship of blackface/ethnic performance, film technology and film preservation at the centennial of cinema.
Bert Wheeler: Just Keep on Doin’ What You’re Doin’, Installation box with single channel video. Writer,editor,fabricator.
A box containing questions of academic cinema answered by the films of vaudevillian, Bert Wheeler
La Tête Sans Corps, video trailer (2 minutes) Writer,director,editor,camera.
A short tape about the discovery, reanimation and exploitation of the disembodied head of young black women.
1/16th of 100%!?, video (23 minutes) Writer, director, editor 1993/96
Montage that examines themes of appropriation, miscegenation and minstrelsy through manipulating footage found in Hollywood movies from the 1920s through the 1950s-- including Imitation of Life, Showboat and The Jazz Singer.
7 & Deadly, film (10 minutes) Co-Director,Writer/Editor, Bleeding Hearts
Production, NYU-SCE, 1991
A nosy neighbor eavesdrops on her fellow apartment dwellers but each room is occupied by a personification of a deadly sin. With Taylor Mead