MARK RAPPAPORT

After making over half a dozen short films in the 1960s and early 1970s, MARK RAPPAPORT went on to direct five features in the 70s: CASUAL RELATIONS (1973), MOZART IN LOVE (1975), LOCAL COLOR (1977), THE SCENIC ROUTE (1978), which won The British Film Institute’s Sutherland Award as “the most imaginative and innovative film of the year,” and IMPOSTORS (1979). CHAIN LETTERS followed in 1985. In the 1990s, RAPPAPORT began working in video with POSTCARDS (1990). This was followed by ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES (1992), EXTERIOR NIGHT (1993) – another experimental video narrative, FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG (1995), THE SILVER SCREEN/COLOR ME LAVENDER (1997) and the short, JOHN GARFIELD (2002). Over the past nine years, he has made 27 videos, varying in length from 10 to 60 minutes.

For over twenty years, RAPPAPORT has also been writing fiction and essays on cinema. Several of his texts, written for the French film magazine Trafic, were published in France in 2008 in the collection « LE SPECTATEUR QUI EN SAVAIT TROP » (‘THE MOVIEGOER WHO KNEW TOO MUCH’). This and three other collections of his writings, ‘(F)AU(x)TOBIOGRAPHIES’, ‘THE SECRET LIFE OF MOVING SHADOWS’ (Part 1 & 2) are now available in English on Kindle from Amazon. RAPPAPORT also creates photomontages that have been displayed in New York, Spain, Rotterdam, Nantes, Ghent, and Paris.

MARK RAPPAPORT currently lives in Paris.