In Dialogue: Thom Andersen / Redmond Entwistle

Redmond Entwistle (b. 1977, London) received his degree in film at California Institute of the Arts and attended the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program. His films have been screened at Tate Britain, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Anthology Film Archives, NY; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Serpentine Gallery, London; and Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius. He has had solo exhibitions at Tramway Gallery, Glasgow; Art in General, NY; International Project Space, Birmingham and MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; and has been included in group exhibitions at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; PS1 MoMA, NY; the ICA, London, among others.

span style=”line-height: 1.4em;”>Thom Andersen (b. 1943, Chicago) is a filmmaker, film critic, curator and teacher who has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life, and has made it a central subject in his filmmaking, writing and teaching. He attended Berkeley in the early 1960s and then returned to his hometown of Los Angeles to study at USC film school where he met long-time friend and collaborator Morgan Fisher who assisted on Andersen’s student film Melting, a portrait of a sundae. After USC, Andersen attended UCLA and completed Olivia’s Place, Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer and — ——-. In 1976 he moved to Buffalo, New York and after briefly teaching became a programmer at Media Study Buffalo. He then moved to Columbus, Ohio where he taught for twelve years. In 1987 he returned to Los Angeles and began teaching at CalArts. In 2003 he attracted significant attention for his essayistic, feature length documentary LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF. The film won the National Film Board Award for Best Documentary at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival and was voted best documentary of 2004 by the Village Voice Critics’ Poll.