Pip Chodorov Movies

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

Director Jonas Mekas travels through New York nights, through apartments, studios, backstage rooms, galleries, bars, and clubs. Encountering old...

- "The Spells of Kenneth Anger" was shot in Hollywood in July, 2003. Anger gives an overview of his life and we see clips of his many films. He...

Pip Chodorov's profile of Jacques Perconte

The film documents an encounter at 202 Blvd Saint-Germain, in a cafe underneath Apollinaire's last place of residence. Jean-Jacques Lebel gives Jonas...

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...

"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,...

Charlemagne Palestine, New York musician in Brussels, and Pip Chodorov, film-maker from New York in Paris, evoke their home town through images...

In December, Armando and Rim invite me to their wedding. I miss the ceremony but film the reception. Maurice Lemaître is the witness. Later in...

A short film by Pip Chodorov

Super 8 flicker film shot and hand-developed in Seoul in spring 2022 with jazz soundtrack from a Jonas Mekas centennial tribute in Busan.

A complement to the previous film (Numéro 4, 1989) : the fictional hero has the power to stop the projector, returning the cinema to its...

Romanian fairy tales usually start with the sentence: “Once upon a time something happened, if it hadn’t happened it couldn’t be...

A joyful and light-hearted look at alienation. What we see: ugly modern buildings, too many tourists, uniformity - everywhere the same cafés,...

A short portrait of Anthology Film Archives, New York s museum of independent cinema founded by Jonas Mekas in 1970. Features interviews with some of...

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...

Pip Chodorov's "Charlemagne 2: Piltzer" is a tour de force of hand-processed film which documents a Palestine piano concert. Chodorov uses flicker,...

A portrait of Brakhage shot in Victoria, British Columbia, just a few months before his death. Filmmaker Pip Chodorov illustrates Brakhage's...

A founding member of the Lettrist movement with Isidore Isou, Maurice Lemaître describes here the genesis of the movement, his friendship with...