Charles Atlas

Musician and filmmaker Charles Atlas offers earned a popularity among the leading lighting in experimental filmmaking, particularly in his fusion of video and dance, and using live video seeing that an improvisational moderate. Delivered in St. Louis, Missouri in 1949, Atlas was a separate movie enthusiast as a kid, so when he shifted to NY at age 20, he extended his likes from polished Hollywood fare to traditional silent films, Western european cinema, and the task of modern experimental directors. Atlas started producing Super 8 movies in 1970, and he arrived a job being a stage supervisor with the business of celebrated dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham. Cunningham and Atlas became collaborators, with Atlas creating Walkaround Period, a film modified in one of Cunningham’s dance parts. As video technology became even more available in the middle-’70s, Atlas started creating video parts which didn’t simply record Cunningham’s dance parts but utilized the moderate to connect to the shows, as Cunningham choreographed parts with two-dimensional visible recordings at heart; Blue Studio room: Five Sections, developed in 1976 and 1977, will be named among their landmark functions. Furthermore to his tasks with Cunningham, Atlas also started dealing with video installations, creating pictures to be shown on displays in a set environment, aswell as multi-media presentations, outfit design, lighting style, and overall performance artwork. Along with Cunningham, Atlas’ collaborators consist of Michael Clark, John Kelly, New Human beings, and Marina Abramovic. In 2004, Atlas produced a overall performance piece Submiting cooperation with Antony Hegarty and his group Antony as well as the Johnsons; the piece, a special event of the wonder and resilience of ladies, presented video projections which were manipulated instantly by Atlas throughout a concert efficiency with the group. The Turning display toured European countries in 2006, and Atlas developed a documentary that noted a live show in London, aswell as supplying a go through the creation from the display and interviews using the “beauties” because they talked about their problems with self-image and intimate identification. The Turning documentary premiered on Dvd movie in 2014, followed an audio documenting from the London concert.