BORN
IN LOS ANGELES. LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK CITY.
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)
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.