Sam Wells (filmmaker)

Sam Wells (November 4, 1950 – June 3, 2011) was an American experimental filmmaker and photographer based in Princeton, New Jersey. He is best known for the film Wired Angel (1999),[1] an avant-garde feature inspired by the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Filmed on high-contrast black-and-white reversal film[2] and featuring a musical score written by Academy Award-winning composer Joe Renzetti, Wired Angel was well received at underground film festivals in both Chicago[3] and New York,[2][4] with Film Threat magazine naming it one of the best unseen films of 2001.[5]

Wells' 1990 short film The Talking Rain played at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival.[6] He exhibited sections of his Vietnam-inspired film and digital media installation Fragrance of Ghosts at William Paterson University in 2007.[7]

Wells was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.[8] In 2006, he was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.[9]

Filmography

Installations

References

  1. ↑ "Wired Angel (1999)". IMDb. 1 November 1999.
  2. 1 2 http://www.undergroundfilmjournal.com/movie-review-2001-nyuff-back-against-the-wall/
  3. ↑ "Chicago Underground Film Festival". Chicago Reader.
  4. ↑ Dennis Lim (21 January 2008). "Surreal Endgames, Seedy Glamour". villagevoice.com.
  5. ↑ http://www.filmthreat.com/features/403/
  6. ↑ "The Talking Rain". sundance.org.
  7. ↑ http://ww2.wpunj.edu/adminsrv/pub-info/Releases07/07_NJSCA_exhibit.htm
  8. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation - Fellows". gf.org.
  9. ↑ "The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke". The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.

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