Henwar Rodakiewicz

Henwar Rodakiewicz (1903–1976[1]) was an American filmmaker.

Career

The Roots of Happiness, a 1953 documentary directed by Rodakiewicz

Rodakiewicz made the 1931 experimental documentary Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements. It structures visual elements such as smoke, water, and plants into an abstract montage.[2] He considered adding a soundtrack but decided against it, feeling it would be redundant to the montage.[3] The Amateur Cinema League named it one of the ten best films of 1932, calling it "beautiful, exciting, workmanlike and distinguished."[2]

Rodakiewicz worked on Paul Strand's 1936 film Redes and Ralph Steiner's 1939 film The City.[1]

Personal life

Rodakiewicz married twice, first to poet and ranch ownder Marie Tudor Garland and second to Peggy Bok.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c Levy, Josh (November 15, 2022). "Celebrating Georgia O'Keeffe's Birthday with New Discoverability in the O'Keeffe-Stieglitz Digitized Papers at the Library of Congress". Library of Congress. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  2. ^ a b Tepperman, Charles (2014). Amateur Cinema. University of California Press. pp. 200–207. ISBN 978-0-520-27986-5.
  3. ^ Remes, Justin (2020). Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing. Columbia University Press. p. 171. ISBN 978-0-231-18931-6.
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