Luther Price
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Biography
Luther Price received a BFA in Sculpture and Media/Performing Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where he studied with Saul Levine. He is an experimental filmmaker whose work has been widely screened in the United States and Europe at such venues as the Museum of Modern ArtMuseum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...
, the Whitney Museum of American Art
Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...
, and the San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco Cinematheque is a film society founded in 1961 by a group of filmmakers, including Bruce Baillie and Chick Strand. Working with other groups like Canyon Cinema, the SF Cinematheque has shown experimental film and video in cooperation with venues such as San Francisco Art Institute,...
. He is a professor at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. His films, shot primarily on Super 8 mm, often include controversial subject matter, found footage
Found footage
Found footage is a filmmaking term which describes a method of compiling films partly or entirely of footage which has not been created by the filmmaker, and changing its meaning by placing it in a new context. It should not be mistaken for documentary or compilation films. It is also not to be...
, the artist performing in a variety of persona, and physical interventions into the actual material of the film, sometimes incorporating live performance. His films are distributed by Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema
Canyon Cinema is a San Francisco based filmmakers' cooperative specializing in the distribution of avant-garde and experimental film. The organization was instigated in about 1960 by Bruce Baillie as an exhibition outlet for independent film, and was formally established as a non-profit...
in San Francisco, The Film-Makers' Cooperative
The Film-Makers' Cooperative
The Film-Makers' Cooperative aka The New American Cinema Group is an artist-run, non-profit organization which was founded in 1962 in New York City by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Stan Brakhage, Gregory Markopoulos, Lloyd Michael Williams and other filmmakers to distribute avant-garde films through...
in New York, Light Cone
Light cone
A light cone is the path that a flash of light, emanating from a single event and traveling in all directions, would take through spacetime...
in Paris and others.
Selected works
- Green (1988) (as Tom Rhoads) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 36 minutes
- Warm Broth (1988) (as Tom Rhoads) Super 8mm, color, sound, 30 minutes
- Sodom (1989) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 21 minutes
- Clown (1991) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 13 minutes
- Meat (1992) Super 8 mm on video, color, sound, 60 minutes, also a 2-hour performance
- Bottle Can (1993) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 20 minutes
- Erruption Errection (1994) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 10 minutes,
- Jellyfish Sandwich (1994) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 17 minutes
- Run (1994) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 13 minutes
- A. (1994) Super 8 mm, b&w, sound, 60 minutes
- Me Gut No Dog Dog (1994) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 42 minutes
- Meat Situation 04 (1997) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 4 minutes
- Mother (1998–1999) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 25 minutes
- Home (1990–1999) Super 8 mm, b&w, sound, 13 minutes
- Ritual 629 (1990–1999) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 15 minutes
- Yellow Goodbye (1999) Super 8 mm, color, sound, 10 minutes
- Meat Blue 03 (1999) Super 8 mm, color, sound
- Res hat ions (2000) Super 8mm, b&w, sound, 10 minutes
- #5, (2000) Super 8mm, color, sound
- I'll Cry Tomorrow, Parts 1 and 2 (2000) Super 8mm, color, sound, 20 minutes
- Dead Ringer (2000) Super 8mm, color, sound, 3 minutes