BORN IN LOS ANGELES. LIVES
AND WORKS IN NEW YORK CITY.
TAKEN BY STORM: THE ART OF STORM THORGERSON AND HIPGNOSIS
(95
mins., color, 16mm, 2011)
MEMYSELFANDI (12 mins., color,
Beta-Sp, 2010)
I WAS BORN, BUT (90 mins.,
color, 16mm, 2004)
IM SIMPLY OVERWHELMED, I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT
TO SAY - THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. GOOD NIGHT. (21 mins.,
B&W/color, Beta-SP, 2002)
JUNK (85 mins.,
Color, 16mm, 1999)
THE IMAGINED, THE LONGED-FOR, THE CONQUERED,
AND THE SUBLIME (8 1/2 mins., Color, Beta-SP)
IF ANDY WARHOL'S SUPER-8 CAMERA COULD TALK? (3
1/2 mins., Color, 16mm, 1993)
SOME DIVINE WIND (72 mins.,
B&W/Color, 16mm, 1991)
FOUR OR FIVE ACCIDENTS, ONE JUNE... (25 mins.,
B&W, 16mm, 1989)
A SMALL ROOM IN THE BIG HOUSE (15 mins., B&W, 16mm, 1988)
2013 Museum
of Modern Art, Mid-Career Retrospective, If Films Could Smell
2007 San
Francisco Cinematheque, Crazy Rays
Vancouver
Asian Film Festival
Directors
Lounge, Berlin
Barcelona
Asian Film Festival (competition)
Asian
American International Film Festival
San
Francisco Asian American International Film Festival
(Festival
Choice Award)
Chicago
Underground Film Festival
Asian
American International Film Festival
Ocularis,
Brooklyn
Cinema
Classics, New York
2003 Black
Maria Film and Video Festival (Third Prize)
Exground
Filmfest, Wiesbaden
D.U.M.B.O
Short Film Festival
2002 Robert Flaherty Seminar
New York
Underground Film Festival
Cinematexas
International Film Festival
Asian
American International Film Festival
2001 Exground
FilmFest, Wiesbaden
San
Francisco Art Institute, Worlds In Collision
New
Filmmakers, Anthology Film Archives, New York
2000 Museum
of Modern Art, New York, Cineprobe - Roddy Bogawa
San
Francisco Asian American International Film Festival
Pacific
Film Archive, Berkeley
VC Filmfest 2000, Los Angeles.
Black
Maria Film and Video Festival (Directors Citation Prize)
1999 Museum of Modern Art, New York, Strand Releasing
survey
The New
York Underground Film Festival
Chicago Asian American Showcase (closing night film program)
1998 Museum of Modern Art, New York, Newsreel at 30
Huntington Beach Art Center, Surf Vietnam
Soho
Rep, New York, Does Thinking Take Place Out Loud?
1997 Guggenheim Museum, New York, "Rooms with a View"
Harn
Museum, Gainesville
Constant,
Brussels
1996 Pacific
Film Archive, Berkeley, The Imagined, The Longed-for, The Conquered, and the
Sublime
1995 New
York Film Festival (video sidebar)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
"Biennial Exhibition"
Fukuoka Asian Film Festival, Japan
(competition)
Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey, (Director's
Choice Prize)
Internationale Kurzfilmtage
Oberhausen (competition)
Robert Flaherty Seminar, Ithaca,
"Reframing Technology"
1994 P.S.
1 Museum, New York, "L'Hiver De L'Amour"
Threadwaxing
Space, New York, "Crash"
L.A.
Film Forum, "Scratching the Belly of the Beast"
Saint-Gervais
Genve, Geneva, "Self/Collective Identity"
1993 Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, "Biennial Exhibition"
Moderna
Museet, Stockholm, "Rtt Snitt"
Dogenhaus
Galerie, Leipzig, "Word of Mouth"
Acker
Art, Berlin
Friesenwall
Gallery, Cologne
Galerie
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, "June"
Nordanstad
Gallery, New York
1992 Sundance
Film Festival, Park City (dramatic competition)
Museum
of Modern Art, New York, "Cineprobe: Roddy Bogawa"
Independent
Focus, Thirteen-WNET, New York
Center
for the Fine Arts, Miami, "Interrogating Identity"
NAATA
Asian American International Film Showcase, San Francisco
Pacific
Film Archive, Berkeley
Hallwalls,
Buffalo
1991 Mannheim
International Film Festival (competition)
AFI
L.A. FILMFEST, Los Angeles
Hawaii
International Film Festival
Robert
Flaherty Seminar, Ithaca
Cornell
Cinema, Ithaca
Exit
Art, New York, "Parallel History-The Hybrid State"
Independent
Focus, Thirteen-WNET, New York
Asian
American International Film Festival, New York
Los
Angeles Asian Pacific American International Film Festival
Wexner
Center for the Arts, Columbus
1990 Asian
American Film Festival/Image Forum, Tokyo (toured)
Independent
Focus, Thirteen-WNET, New York
SEGUE,
New York, "Fresh Film"
The
Knitting Factory, New York, "Fresh Film"
1989 The
Collective for Living Cinema, New York
Pacific
Film Archive, Berkeley, "Avant-Garde Comedies"
Los
Angeles Asian Pacific American International Film Festival
Installation
Gallery, San Diego, "Urban Cinema"
1988 Asian
American International Film Festival, New York (toured)
Sushi
Gallery, San Diego, "EXCHANGE"
MEDIA,
San Francisco
1987 Asian
American International Film Festival, New York
New York State Council on the Arts award.
2006.
American Center
Foundation. 2004.
Experimental
Television award. 2003.
Creative Capital
Foundation award. 1999.
New York State Council on the Arts,
distribution award. 1999.
Art Matters, Inc., production
grant. 1996.
Jerome Foundation Independent Filmmaker grant. 1994.
New York State Council on the Arts award.
1993.
New York Foundation
for the Arts Artist Fellowship. 1993.
New York State Council on the Arts,
distribution award. 1992.
Jerome Foundation Independent Filmmaker grant. 1990.
New York State Council on the Arts award.
1990.
Art Matters, Inc., production
grant. 1989.
Russell Foundation
award. 1988.
Louis B. Mayer
Foundation production grant. 1988.
Panel Member, San Francisco Asian American Film Festival,
Down and Dirty Pictures with Gregg Araki and Jon Moritsugu. 2007.
Jury Member, ITVS Open Call 2004.
Jury Member, New Jersey Young Film and Videomakers
Festival. 2002.
Reader, ITVS Open
Call 2001, 2004.
Conference
Participant, Worlds In Collision, San Francisco Art Institute 2001.
Jury Member, New Jersey Young Film and
Videomakers Festival. 2001.
Pre-screener, Black
Maria Film and Video Festival. 2001.
Jury Member,
Cinematexas Film Festival, Austin, 2000.
Visiting Artist, University of Texas, Austin.
2000.
Panel Member, The State of the Art(ists), San Francisco, Asian American International Film
Festival. 2000.
Panel Member, Electronic Media and Film
Program, New York State Council on the Arts. 2000.
Panel Member, IFC
Student Film Competition, New York. 1999.
Panel Member, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation,
Baltimore. 1997.
Visiting Artist, New School for Social
Research, New York, "Cinema Innovators". 1997.
Panel Member, New York State Council on the
Arts, New York,
Film Production
Panel for Individual Artists. 1996.
Panel Member, Society for Cinema Studies
Conference, New York, "Retrieving the Imagination: Critical Fictions".
1995.
Artist Mentor, Film/Video Arts, New York.
Visiting Artist, Sarah Lawrence College. 1994.
Jury Member, New England Film and Video
Festival. 1994.
Visiting Artist, Visual Studies Workshop,
Rochester. 1994.
Panel Member, First
National Asian American Arts Conference, New York, "Beyond
Boundaries". 1993.
Lecturer, Royal
Academy for the Arts, Stockholm. 1993.
Visiting Artist, Middlebury College. 1993.
Visiting Artist, Cooper Union, New York. 1993.
Visiting Artist, Wesleyan University. 1992.
Curator, Artist
Space, New York. "Coming
Attractions: New Narratives on Race and Sexuality". May 1990.
Selection Committee
Member, Asian American International Film Festival, New York. Solicited and chose work for 1991,1992, 1994, 1996, 1999, 2001,
2002 festivals.
Lecturer, The New School for Social Research,
New York,
"East Meets
West" Seminar. 1990.
Lecturer,
University of California, Los Angeles, "Advanced Documentary"
Seminar. 1989. May 13, 1993.
Ronnie Scheib, I Was Born, But, Variety, August 8, 2004.
Spencer Parsons, New York Underground Film
Festival, Filmmaker Magazine, online, May 4, 2004.
Kimberly Chun, Reel Appeal, San Francisco
Bay Guardian, March 9, 2005.
Dennis Harvey, JUNK, Variety, March 27-April
2, 2000.
Amy Taubin, At a Spotty Indie Showcase, Less
is More, The Village Voice, October 12, 1999.
Rea Tajiri, Filmmaker Rea Tajiri talks with
Director Roddy Bogawa, Cinevue. pp.31-32.
Gary Dauphin, Thrills and Chills, The
Village Voice, March 16, 1999.
Gary Dauphin, Collective Call, The Village
Voice, October
6, 1998.
Roberta Smith, A Channel-Surfing Experience
with Beanbag Chairs and Gym. The New York Times, April 25, 1997.
Peter Feng,
"In Search of Asian American Cinema", Cineaste Vol. XXI, Nos. 1-2, 1995.
Gita Reddy, "Culture Clash", A
Magazine, Vol. 2 #2, Winter 1993.
Edward Iwata, "Asian Movies Take Flight,
Filmmakers Making Move into the Mainstream", The Los Angeles Times,
Calendar Section,
John G. Hanhardt, "Media Art Worlds: New
Expressions in Film and Video, 1991-1993",1993
Biennial Exhibition Catalog.
Hilton Als, "two character play",
frieze, Issue 10, May 1993.
Lawrence Chua, "Unusually Moving
Pictures", ArtForum International, May 1993.
Ira Sachs, "Looking for Chan: Mapping
Identity in Asian American Cinema", Off Hollywood Report, Vol. 7 #1, Spring 1992.
Coco Fusco, "Stateless Hybrids: An
Introduction", The Hybrid State Films, November 1991.
Beth Coleman, "Home Works-Some Divine
Wind", The Village Voice, Vol. XXXVI No. 27, July 2, 1991. pp. 67-68.
Jackie McGrath, "Screen Studies",
The San Diego Reader, June 8, 1989. pp. 1, 5, 6.
Daryl Chin, "Some Recent Notes on Asian
Cinema", Image Forum,No. 103, February 1989.
Manohla Dargis, "Countercurrents-Tuff
Turf", The Village Voice, Vol. XXXIII No. 29, July 19, 1988. pp. 63-64.
J. Hoberman, "Wind From the East",
The Village Voice, Vol. XXXIII No. 26, June 28, 1988. pp.
87-88.
If Films Could
Smell, YARD magazine, Issue 3, 2004.
I Wish I Had Chantal Akermans Cojones, Cinevue,
2002.
"Territorial Pissings: The Drive-by, the
Car Jack, The Club", Purple Prose No. 7, 1994. pp.
54-55.
"Andy's Legacy", frieze Special
Issue on Andy Warhol, April 1994.
"The (Process) Art of Film: Leslie
Thornton", Purple Prose No. 6, 1994.
"Expansion/Exchange/Expenditure: a
conversation with Michael Joo" DOCUMENTS, #3.
"Re: Post (art)", Purple Prose, No.
3, 1993. pp. 45-47.
"The World's a Mess, It's in My Kiss
(HIPPY PORN by Jon Moritsugu)" Purple Prose, No. 1, 1992. pp. 50-52.
"An(Other) Reflection
on Race?", MOVING THE IMAGE: Independent Asian Pacific American Media
Arts,1991. pp. xiii, xvii, 208, 264.
"Some Divine Wind (excerpts): The State
of (some) Things", Motion
Picture, Winter 1989-90. pp. 47-48.
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent
Study Program. 1989-90.
M.F.A., Film, University of California, San
Diego. 1989.
B.A., Media
Production, University of California, San Diego. 1985.
Chair, Associate Professor (tenured) New
Jersey City University
Board of Trustees Member, Thomas Edison
Consortium
Film work is in the collections of The Museum
of Modern Art, New York,
the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Moderna Museet in
Stockholm.
New York filmmaker Roddy Bogawas work is known for its
investigation of history and culture via lyrical low-fi means and innovative
narrative structures. He has made three feature films, I WAS BORN, BUT (2004),
JUNK (1999), and SOME DIVINE WIND (1991) and numerous shorts including IF ANDY
WARHOLS SUPER-8 CAMERA COULD TALK (1993), A SMALL ROOM IN THE BIG HOUSE
(1988), THE IMAGINED, THE LONGED-FOR, THE CONQUERED, AND THE SUBLIME (1996),
and IM SIMPLY OVERWHELMED, I JUST DONT KNOW WHAT TO SAY – THANK YOU ALL
VERY MUCH. GOOD NIGHT (2002). He studied art and
played in punk bands before turning to filmmaking receiving his MFA degree from
the University of California at San Diego where he made his first two short films which have screened extensively in festivals, museums,
and national and international art galleries. In 1991, he directed his first
feature, the experimental narrative SOME DIVINE WIND. A mixture of fictional
and documentary material, this expressionistic film focused on the paradox of
assimilation while trying to hold on to ones cultural perspective. The film
was selected for the Sundance Film Festival (Dramatic Competition), the
Mannheim International Film Festival (Germany), the Asian American
International Film Festival (New York), the Hawaii International Film Festival,
and the Fukuoka Asian Film Festival (Japan). SOME DIVINE WIND has also shown at
the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, the 1993 Biennial Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of
American Art and has been broadcast on New York WNETs Independent Focus and
WDR First German Television. His more recent short films have been featured in
the New York Film Festival, Oberhausen Festival Internationale, the Black Maria
Film and Video Festival (Directors Choice Prize), and the 1995 Biennial
Exhibition of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Guggenheim Museum, and the
Cinematexas Short Film Festival. His second feature film JUNK was praised by
critic Amy Taubin as everything indie film no longer is having its premiere
at the New York Underground and as well as screening at the Museum of Modern
Art, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Asian American International Film
Festival and Exground Filmfest in Wiesbaden. I WAS BORN, BUT,
a look back at punk music in the late seventies and early eighties and its intersection
with race and identity premiered as the closing night film at the New York
Underground Film Festival where it won the Festival Choice Award. It was noted
in Variety as a welcome addition to the underground canon and has gone on to
screen at the Asian American International Film Festival, Chicago Underground
Film Festival, Red Cat in Los Angeles as well as making the list for the top
twenty Best Undistributed Films of 2004 in the Village Voice. His awards and
grants include Creative Capital Foundation, the American Center Foundation, the
Jerome Foundation Independent Filmmaker grant and New York State Council on the
Arts.