Bradley Eros
{{short description|American film director}}
Bradley Eros (born in 1952 in Fairfield, Illinois){{cite book |last1=Art |first1=Whitney Museum of American |title=Whitney Biennial 2004: Hauptbd. |date=2004 |publisher=Whitney Museum of American Art |isbn=978-0-87427-139-3 |page=171 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g3sTAQAAMAAJ&q=eros%20 |access-date=23 March 2021 |language=en}} is an experimental film director, actor, curator, poet, and performance artist who also makes Musique concrète sound collages, music videos, photographs, live projection performances, works on paper and art objects.
His work has been presented in multiple screenings and exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art,{{Cite web|title=Spirit of the Eighties: Curated by Tessa Hughes-Freeland {{!}} MoMA|url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/4256|access-date=2021-05-23|website=The Museum of Modern Art|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSkhAQAAIAAJ&q=bradley+eros|title=Big as Life: An American History of 8mm Films : Type X|date=1998|publisher=Museum of Modern Art|language=en}} and the Whitney Museum of American Art,{{Cite web|title=Optipus: The Owl Flies at Twilight|url=https://whitney.org/events/the-owl-flies-at-twilight-screening|access-date=2021-05-23|website=whitney.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Outer Space|url=https://whitney.org/events/outer-space|access-date=2021-05-23|website=whitney.org|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta's Subverted Horseplay|url=https://whitney.org/events/eros-liotta-screening|access-date=2021-05-23|website=whitney.org|language=en}} including the 2004 Whitney Biennial,{{Cite web|title=Whitney Biennial 2004|url=https://whitney.org/exhibitions/biennial-2004|access-date=2021-05-23|website=whitney.org|language=en}} and is in the permanent collection of the museum.{{Cite web|title=Acquisitions of Work by New Artists to the Collection (Sept. 2017—Sept. 2018)|url=https://whitney.org/uploads/generic_file/file/796/9_13_18__Acqs_Ann_-_New_Artists_Acquisitions.pdf|url-status=live|website=Whitney Museum of American Art|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408190626/https://whitney.org/uploads/generic_file/file/796/9_13_18__Acqs_Ann_-_New_Artists_Acquisitions.pdf |archive-date=2019-04-08 }} He has also created dozens of ‘zines, posters, soundtracks and unique artist’s books. He is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City{{Cite web|title=Microscope Gallery|url=https://www.artforum.com/picks/bradley-eros-74903|access-date=2021-05-23|website=www.artforum.com|date=6 April 2018 |language=en-US}} and is known for his work in the field of contracted cinema.{{cite book |last1=Walley |first1=Jonathan |title=Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-093863-5 |pages=79–83 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NTjpDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Bradley+Eros%22&pg=PA79 |access-date=23 March 2021 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Harakawa |first1=Maya |title=BRADLEY EROS eau de cinema: constellations & contradictions |url=https://brooklynrail.org/2014/07/artseen/bradley-eros-eau-de-cinema-constellations-contradictions |access-date=23 March 2021 |work=The Brooklyn Rail |date=15 July 2014}}[https://oxford.universitypressscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190938635.001.0001/oso-9780190938635-chapter-2 Two Expanded Cinemas - Oxford Scholarship]
Life and work
Among his first projects following his relocation from Illinois to NYC was a series of expanded cinema films with (and performed live with) Aline Mare in a multi-media film and music partnership called Erotic Psyche.{{cite book |last1=Patterson |first1=Clayton |last2=Bartlett |first2=Paul |last3=Mylonas |first3=Urania |title=Captured: A Film/video History of the Lower East Side |date=2005 |publisher=Seven Stories Press |isbn=978-1-58322-674-2 |pages=280–3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XOAaAQAAIAAJ&q=Eros |access-date=23 March 2021 |language=en}}[https://www.alinemare.com/early-works/project-two-kyd6d Films and Video —— Aline Mare] In 1982 he helped organize (and appeared in) the Colab sponsored Erotic Psyche Show at ABC No Rio{{cite web |title=Exhibitions 1983-84 |url=https://98bowery.com/return-to-the-bowery/abcnorio-exhibitions-1983 |website=98 BOWERY: 1969-89 |date=20 April 2017 |access-date=23 March 2021}} after he participated in The Times Square Show. His sound collage The Atom & Eve of Destruction (1983) appears on the first issue of Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine in 1983.[https://www.ubu.com/sound/tellus_1.html] Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine #1 (1983) In 1984, he made Mutable Fire, a collage film about destruction and desire.[https://www.filmaffinity.com/us/film842094.html Mutable Fire (184) - FilmAffinity][https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/re-visions-bradley-eros Re-Visions: Bradley Eros|Experimental Cinema][https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/spirit-eighties Spirit of the Eighties|Experimental Cinema][http://filmint.nu/no-wave-films-at-the-oberhausen-film-festival-and-vienna-film-museum-may-june-2010/ Film International]
From 1987 to 2016 he collaborated with the artist/filmmaker Jeanne Liotta.[https://whitney.org/events/eros-liotta-screening Bradley Eros and Jeanne Liotta's Subverted Horseplay|Whitney Museum of American Art] In 2020, he also collaborated with musician Lea Bertucci providing visuals for a video.[https://www.factmag.com/2020/04/28/artist-diy-lea-bertucci/ Artist DIY: Lea Bertucci - FACT Magazine]
He is manager and researcher at Anthology Film Archives, as well as a member of the board of directors of The Film-Makers' Cooperative in New York City.[https://cixous72.com/cx72-interview-bradley-eros/Cx72 Interview: Bradley Eros on Eau de Cinema, Scent, and Film December 21, 2021]
Selected works
- Warp & Weft (with Lea Burtucci; 2019)[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/05/arts/music/playlist-miley-cyrus-post-malone-ed-sheeran.html The Playlist: Ed Sheeran's Tender Duet, and 11 More New Songs - The New York Times][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVI6j9uyn4Q Lea Bertucci "Warp And Weft (excerpt)" on NNA Tapes' official YouTube channel]
- Trans Trans (Transformers Transformed) (with Tim Geraghty; 2009)[https://iffr.com/en/2011/films/trans-trans-transformers-transformed Trans Trans (Transformers Transformed)|IRFF][https://www.ercatx.org/may-22nd-age-of-extinction-films-for-transformers/ May 22nd AGE OF EXTINCTION: Films for Transformers - Experimental Response Cinema]
- Aerodynamics of the Black Sun (2006)[https://www.47orchard.org/exhibition/The_Collective.html Orchard47]
- eros.ion (1999)[https://expcinema.org/site/en/events/bradley-eros-erosion Bradley Eros: "eros.ion"|Experimental Cinema]
- Dervish Machine (1992)[https://em-arts.org/en/independent-films/dervish-machine Euro Mediterranean Arts]
- Subverted Horseplay (with former partner Jeanne Liotta;[http://www.jeanneliotta.net/eros.html Eros/Liotta] 1987-2016)
- Erotic Psyche (with Aline Mare; 1985)[https://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/underground-film-timeline-index/underground-film-timeline-1980-1989/ Underground Film Timeline: 1980 —— 1989|Underground Film Journal]
- Mutable Fire (1984)[https://www.academia.edu/8307277/No_Wave_Film_and_the_Music_Documentary_From_No_Wave_Cinema_Documents_to_Retrospective_Documentaries (PDF) No Wave Film and the Music Documentary: From No Wave Cinema “Documents” to Retrospective Documentaries|Michael Goddard - Academia.edu]
- Osmosis (1972-2002)[https://em-arts.org/en/independent-films/osmosis Osmosis|Euro Mediterranean Arts]
See also
References
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External links
- [https://film-makerscoop.com/filmmakers/bradley-eros/bio The Film-Makers' Cooperative]
- [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1468068/ Bradley Eros at IMDb]
- [https://vimeo.com/204645772 Dervish Machine (1992) officially posted by Jeanne Liotta on Vimeo]
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Category:American experimental filmmakers
Category:Film directors from Illinois
Category:American performance artists
Category:21st-century American male artists
Category:American conceptual artists
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Category:American installation artists
Category:American new media artists