Connections: Ray Johnson On-Line

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A kinetic portrait of the American Artist Ray Johnson (1927-95), driving force behind the New York Correspondence School, which started in the early 1960s. Johnson was mainly known for his numerous mail art projects, involving artistic strategies like networks and collaborations. In the 1940s he attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and in 1948 he moved to New York, where he joined the American Abstract Artists group in the early 1950s. Later in the same decade he was associated with the first generation of pop artists. His death in January 1995, when he jumped off a bridge in Sag Harbor, Long Island, was considered to be something of a mystery. The highly expressionistic film is based on a personal interpretation of Johnson’s artistic strategies, using the telephone and the internet as primary sources for sound and image.

Directors

Lars Movin, Steen Møller Ramussen

Producers

Lars Movin, Steen Møller Ramussen

Release Year

2001

Festival Year

2003

Country

United States

Run Time

41 minutes

Premiere

North American Premiere