Roddy Bogawa,TAKEN BY STORM: THE ART OF STORM THORGERSON AND HIPGNOSIS

Published: Sept. 11, 2015, 9 p.m.

b'The films and videos of Roddy Bogawa are known for their investigation of history and culture via lyrical low-fi means and innovative narrative structures. He has made four feature films, I WAS BORN, BUT\\u2026 (2004), JUNK (1999), and SOME DIVINE WIND (1991) and most recently the documentary TAKEN BY STORM: THE ART OF STORM THORGERSON AND HIPGNOSIS (2011) and numerous shorts including IF ANDY WARHOL\\u2019S 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 I\\u2019M SIMPLY OVERWHELMED, I JUST DON\\u2019T KNOW WHAT TO SAY \\u2013 THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. GOOD NIGHT (2002). His films have screened in competition at the Sundance, Mannheim, Hawaii, Oberhausen, and Fukuoka film festivals and the New York Film Festival, New York and Chicago Underground film festivals, Asian American International Film Festival, and South by Southwest, as well as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Guggenheim and Whitney Museum, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and have been reviewed in Variety, the Village Voice, Off Hollywood Report, A Magazine, and Art Forum. He has written on art and film for Frieze, Purple Prose, Documents, Motion Picture, and the magazine Citizen K. In 2013, he had a mid-career retrospective IF FILMS COULD SMELL over six days at the Museum of Modern Art. His book for Kaya Press of the same name is forthcoming this fall. TAKEN BY STORM: THE ART OF STORM THORGERSON AND HIPGNOSIS will have it\\u2019s theatrical release at the Museum of Modern Art in New York October 2-8th.'