IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

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      Mark Rappaport

      Mark Rappaport

      Still: The Scenic Route
      Independent filmmaker and writer Mark RAPPAPORT (1942, USA) was born and raised in New York, where he attended Brooklyn College and graduated in 1964. Rappaport worked as an editor before making his first feature, the experimental film Casual Relations (1974), which film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum describes as “an excellent introduction to Rappaport’s glamorously home-made art cinema”. Many of his subsequent films have been shown at IFFR. Besides filmmaking, Rappaport also writes essays, having published in French film magazines such as Trafic and Cinéma. A collection of his writings, Le spectateur qui on savait trop/The Spectator Who Knew Too Much, was published in 2008. Rappaport lives and works in Paris.

      Filmography

      Blue Frieze (1966, short), Mur 19 (1966, short), Friends (1967, short), Bay of Angels (1968, short), The Stairs (1968, short), Persepolis (1969-1970, short), Chronicle (1970, short), Fluorescent (1971, short), Blue Streak (1971, short), Casual Relations (1974), Mozart in Love (1975), Local Color (1977), The Scenic Route (1978), Impostors (1979), Mark Rappaport: The TV Spin-Off (1980, short doc), Chain Letters (1985), Postcards (1990, short), Rock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992, doc), Exterior Night (1994, short), From the Journals of Jean Seberg (1995, doc), Silver Screen/Color Me Lavender (1997, doc), John Garfield (2002, short doc), The Vanity Tables of Douglas Sirk (2014, short doc), Becoming Anita Ekberg (2014, short doc), I, Dalio (2014, short doc), Our Stars (2015, short doc), Max & James & Danielle (2015, short doc), The Circle Closes (2015, short doc), Debra Paget, for Example (2015, short doc), Tati vs. Bresson: The Gag (2016, short doc), Chris Olsen – The Boy Who Cried (2016), Sergei/Sir Gay (2016, short doc), The Double Life of Paul Henreid (2017, short doc), The Empty Screen or the Metaphysics of Movies (2017, short doc), Private Screenings (2017, short doc), The Empty Screen (2017, short doc), America’s Grandpa (2018, short doc), Conrad Veidt – My Life (2019, short doc), Anna/Nana/Nana/Anna (2019, short doc), L’année dernière à Dachau (2020, short doc)

      More info: Wikipedia, Mark Rappaport

      Mark Rappaport at IFFR