ABOUT THE ARTIST: |
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| Since the year 2000, Michael Robinson has created a body of film, video and photography work exploring the poetics of loss and the dangers of mediated experience. His work has screened in both solo and group shows at a variety of festivals, cinematheques and galleries including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, The New York Film Festival, The London Film Festival, Sundance, Media City, Anthology Film Archives, Viennale, Cinematexas, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Tate Modern, MoMA P.S.1, Impakt, Courtisane, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Chicago Filmmakers, PDX, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, and the San Francisco, Melbourne, Leeds, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals. His film “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” was awarded “Best International Film” at the 2006 Images Festival in Toronto, “Best of Festival” at the 2006 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, and Michael was awarded "Most Promising Filmmaker" at the 2007 Ann Arbor Film Festival. His work has been discussed in publications such as Cinema Scope, Art Papers, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Village Voice, Time Out New York, and he was listed as one of the top ten avant garde filmmakers of the 2000's by Film Comment magazine. Michael is a co-founder of Philadelphia’s Small Change Film Series, and has independently curated programs for San Francisco Cinematheque, Cornell Cinema, and The State Contemporary Art Center in Moscow. Originally from upstate NY, he holds a BFA from Ithaca College, a MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago, is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema at Binghamton University, and was an artist in residence at the Headlands Center for the Arts for Fall 2009. | |
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| CONTACT: michaelblayneyrobinson at hotmail dot com | |
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| WHEEL ME OUT INTERVIEW: read here | |
| THE L MAGAZINE ARTICLE: read here | |
| CINEMA SCOPE ARTICLE: read here | |
| FILM COMMENT POLL: read here | |
| IDIOM ARTICLE: read here | |
| INCITE INTERVIEW: read here | |
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| LIGHT IS WAITING on DVD: Octopus Visual Studies Journal (Volume 4: SURFACE) | |
| YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS on DVD: Octopus Visual Studies Journal (Volume 4: SURFACE) | |
| CHIQUITITA AND THE SOFT ESCAPE on DVD: The Journal of Short Film (Volume 15) | |