Joel Schlemowitz
Born Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and New Paltz, NY
Education
Ithaca College, BS Filmmaking, Minor in Fine Art, 1989
Selected Grants & Awards
Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2020
New York State Council on the Arts 1999 & 2016 Puffin Foundation 2012
Jerome Foundation 1999
Selected Solo Exhibitions
“ƨlɒƨɿɘvɘЯ,” Microscope Gallery, New York, NY 2023
“Parallax Reveries,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014
“Light Objects,“Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
“Grand Magic Lantern Show!,” The Courthouse Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2003
“Cinepaintings, Filmscrolls and Projections,” The Courthouse Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2002
“Filmscrolls,” The Courthouse Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY, 2001
“Joel Schlemowitz: Filmboxes,” Bound and Unbound, New York, NY, 2000
Selected Group Exhibitions
“The Power of Images: Life, Death and Rebirth” Morbid Anatomy at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY 2018
“Faketopia,” TAV Gallery, Tokyo, Japan 2017
“Dreamlands: Expanded,” as part of The Whitney Museum of Art’s exhibition “Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema & Art, 1905-2016,” curated by Chrissie Isles, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016
“Never Twice,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016
“Slide Slide Slide,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2014
Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, NY 2013
“We are Cinema,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2012
“Mechanics of the Medium,” The Images Festival, Toronto, Ontario, 2008
“Koliada on Fifth Avenue,” Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY, 2006
“Light and Substance: Cameron, Gschwandtner, Morrison, Schlemowitz,“ Anthology Film Archives, New York, 2005
“Anti-Reading 7,” presented by Loudmouth Collective, Casa del Popolo, Montreal, Canada, 2002
“Malanka: Contemporary artists, writers & performers react to the pagans,” Ukrainian Institute of America, NY, 2001
“Gogol / Hohol” Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY 2000
“Poetry: Installations and Performances” Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, NY
“Five Filmmakers” The Annual Downtown Arts Festival, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, NY 1997
Selected Multimedia Performances
2023
Magic lantern show, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
“Nellie Bly Around the World in 72 Days,” George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
“Elliott and Schlemowitz’s Phantasmagoria” Morbid Anatomy at Church of the Ascension, Brooklyn, NY
2022
Magic lantern show, King Manor Museum, Queens, NY
Magic lantern show, Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY
2018
Magic lantern lecture and demonstration, NYU Cinema Studies, New York, NY
Projections with Sontag Shogun, H0L0, Brooklyn, NY
Projections with Bradley Eros and Masami Tomihisa (Shattered Glass Trio), Vital Joint, Brooklyn, NY
Magic lantern display and demonstration, New-York Historical Society, NY
2015
Magic Lantern Projections, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Brooklyn, NY
“Kannon, Goddess of Mercy, “ Ab And Pluribus, New York, NY
2014
“Kannon, Goddess of Mercy, Mono No Aware, Brooklyn, NY
“Reliquary,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
Experimental Intermedia Performance Series, New York, NY
“Chimera” for “Now What,” organized by Microscope Gallery at Running Rebel Studios, Brooklyn, NY
2012
“Flatbread Gratuity,” organized by Microscope Gallery at Whitebox, New York, NY
“Joel Schlemowitz & Roe Enney,” OpticSonic Tea, New York, NY
2011
“Scene (Seen) Here (Hear),” Bric Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2010
“Arcane Project: Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Joel Schlemowitz,” MONO NO AWARE, New York, NY
“Magic Lantern projections, LOST SYMBOLS °¬Δ©∂¢§•º–˜∫ç∂ßΣ,” Convent of Saint Cecilia, Brooklyn, NY
2009
“till by turning + folds ensemble,” Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2008
“Arcane Project: Bradley Eros, Lary Seven, Joel Schlemowitz,” The National Arts Club, New York, NY
“Roberta Beck Mercurial Cinema presents REVOLUTION 9,” New York Underground Film Festival, New York
2007
“A lab is a lab is a lab,” The Kitchen, New York, NY
“marc zegans + edwin torres / wanda phipps + joel schlemowitz,” Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2006
“Aerodynamics of the Hovering Hummingbird: Science, Cinema, and Ways of Seeing,” Millennium Film Workshop, NY
2005
“Exchange” The Project Room, New York, NY
“Invisible Film Series” Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
“Becoming” Robert[a] Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
2003
Projections with Rebecca Moore & Prevention of Blindness, Sin-é, New York, NY
Projections with Rebecca Moore & Prevention of Blindness, Tonic, New York, NY
Projections with Rebecca Moore & Prevention of Blindness, The Living Room, New York, NY
“MOVEABLE FEAST !” Robert[a] Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
2002
“Magnitude Words in Sculpture Show presents Speech Acts,” The Educational Alliance, New York, NY
“Loud/Ugly/Greetings” Low Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Screenings
2020
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Experiments in Cinema v15.1
2019
Analogica Film Festival, Bolzano, Italy 2019
Detour Art Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2017
“78rpm,” (solo) Sight Unseen, Baltimore, MD
“78rpm,” (solo) Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Grand Illusion Cinema, Seattle, WA
2016
“78rpm,” (solo) Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
“Joel Schlemowitz: Short Experimental Films,” Amherst College, Amherst, MA
2015
“Japan Cuts,” at the Japan Society, New York, NY
“Experimental Film Night,” IDIO Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“ORIGINS AND ENDS: 35MM Films from the Film-Maker’s Co-Operative,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Iowa City Documentary Festival, Iowa City, IA
Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
Antimatter [Media Art], Victoria, BR, Canada
2013
“Three Filmmakers: Schlemowitz, Jang, Serra,” Millennium Film Workshop, New York
NY “In Springtime,” Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2012
“New Films, Recent Films, Works in Progress by Joel Schlemowitz,” Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Joel Schlemowitz,” Mass Art Film Society, Boston, MA
“Shorts: Journeys Across Cultural Landscapes,” Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY
“The Dead Talk Back,” Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
“Short Program 2,” Uno Port Art Film Festival, Uno Port, Japan
2011
“Joel Schlemowitz: Film Portraits and Experimental Documentaries,” Grand Detour Film Series, Portland, OR
“Joel Schlemowitz: Film Portraits and Experimental Documentaries.” Northwest Film Forum, Seattle, WA
2010
“Joel Schlemowitz: Film Portraits and Experimental Documentaries,” Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
“17 Ugly Years,” MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, NY
“Techniques of the Observer,” Experimenta India – Arthouse Mocha, New Delhi, India
“Experiments in Cinema v5.1,” Guild Cinema. University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
“Residency Unlimited: Special Features,” Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
2009
“Human Landscapes,” Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY
International Poetic Short Film Festival, Nuyorican Poets Café, New York, NY
“The HOWL! Arts Festival presents – A Moveable Feast: A Tribute to the New York Film-Makers’ Cooperative,” Millennium Film Workshop, NY
“Cine X,” Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
2008
“Views from the Avant-Garde,” New York Film Festival, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
“Sparks of Brilliance,” Tribeca Film Festival, New York, NY
“Scenes From New York,” Diversions, a Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Edinburgh, Scotland
“The Robert(a) Beck Memorial (Mercurial) Cinema 10th Anniversary Screening,” Issue Project Room, Brooklyn
“Coincidence? December 10th!,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2007
“Joel Schlemowitz: New Experimental Films,” Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
“Arclite 3: Goodnight Arclite,” The Exhibit, London, England
2006
“Teslamania,” Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Rose Cinemas, New York, NY
“Little DreamO in Slumberland,” Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
“Film-Makers’ Co-operative 45th Anniversary Celebration,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2005
“What It Was Like,” New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY
“The Way We Were,” Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
2004
“Joel Schlemowitz: Charas Mini-Retrospective Revisited” Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (various cities)
“Experimental Cinema,” Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, AZ
The New York Underground Film Festival, New York, NY
“Invisible Film Series,” Millennium Film Workshop, New York
“NYC Loves the West Coast,” Artists’ Television Access (ATA), San Francisco, CA
“Swan Song of the Unconscious,” The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
2003
“Intermittent,” The Museum of Contemporary Cinema / Museu do Chiado, Lisbon, Portugal “Joel Schlemowitz: Short Films,” Pioneer Cinema, New York, NY
Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
Recontres Internationales, Paris, France
“Robert Beck Memorial Cinema 5th Anniversary Show,” Ocularis, Brooklyn, NY
“Robert Beck Memorial Cinema Show,” Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL
“International Exchange Series: New York – Czech Republic,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
2002
“Joel Schlemowitz: Representative Works,” University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
“Joel Schlemowitz: New Works,” Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
“Invisible Film Series,” Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
“Robert Beck Memorial Cinema Anniversary Show,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
“Films That Rise to the Surface (of Clarified Butter),” Video Balagan at the Coolidge Theater, Boston, MA
Thaw02 Film and Video Festival, Iowa City, IA
Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia
International Art Film Festival, Trenéianske Teplice, Slovak Republic
“The Best of Both Coasts,” Jewelbox Theater, Seattle, WA
Rhode Island International Film Festival, Providence, RI
“Handmade Films,” Rooftop Films, Brooklyn, NY
“The East Meets The West / The West Meets The East,” Jewelbox Theater, Seattle, WA
Seattle Underground Film Festival, Seattle, WA
“Shorts in Flux,” Chicago International Film Festival, Chicago, IL
The Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
Denver Film Festival, Denver, CO
The Blinding Light, British Columbia, Canada
2001
“Synesthesia in Film & Video,” Rencontres Internationales, Paris, France
“Electricity Respect,” The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
2000
“The American Century: Part 2,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“L’écrit dans le champ,” Lycee des Arnes, Toulouse, France
“Formes Breves, “Collectif Jeune Cinema, La Clef, Paris, France
“Synesthesia in Film & Video,” University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
“Experimental Short Films I,” The Seattle Underground Film Festival, Seattle, WA
“Independent Animations,” Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche, Regensburg, Germany
Brooklyn Babylon Cinema Brooklyn, NY
“Camera Rolls,” The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
1999
“Joel Schlemowitz: Representative Works,” Moviate, Harrisburg, PA
“Light on Falling Water Writes the Text,” The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
“Oblique Narratives,” The Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, New York, NY
1998
“Cineprobe: Joel Schlemowitz,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Joel Schlemowitz: Representative Works” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
“PARADIGM: Joel Schlemowitz,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
“Joel Schlemowitz: Representative Works,” Berks Filmmakers, Reading, PA
“Poetry and Film,” The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
“The Film-Makers’ Co-optical,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
1997
“Joel Schlemowitz: Representative Works,” Millennium Film Workshop, New York, NY
“Joel Schlemowitz: Charas Mini-Retrospective,” Films Charas, New York, NY
“Joel Schlemowitz: Representative Works,” Orgone Cinema, Pittsburgh, PA
1996
“Poetry Meets Film,” The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
“Movies the Color of Blood,” Cine Club at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Broadcast
Magic Lantern show, The Gilded Age, HBO 2022
Texas Public Television 2003
Sundance Channel 2002
WNYC, New York Public Television 1993