-- Wikipedia (March 2010, emphasis added)Alongside his intellectual work, DeLanda made several short The DeLanda films Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (1980) and IsmIsm (1979) were preserved by Anthology Film Archives in 2010 with a grant from the National Film Preservation Foundation. The new print of Raw Nerves unfurls at the 7th Orphan Film Symposium. In 2008 and 2009, under the direction of Anthology's archivist Andrew Lampert, NYU students researched and compiled dossiers for Cinema Studies/MIAP courses taught by Dan Streible. Lampert provided the names of filmmakers whose work is being preserved by Anthology with a major grant from the Warhol Foundation. NYU Cinema Studies doctoral candidate Sonja Simonyi researched the films of Manuel DeLanda. Showing the works in various illegally-circulating commercial formats and through unauthorized copies adds to the subversive, underground feel of DeLanda’s oeuvre. However, such an act is also problematic, as it doesn’t do justice to the dazzling, formally innovative aesthetic employed throughout his films. The most recent screening of Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (1980), for example, a film originally on 16mm, was screened on video at the 2008 New York Underground Film Festival. As DeLanda himself did not know this copy existed, there seems to be a disconnect between the artist and various circulating copies "celebrating" his work in theatrical settings. Similarly, the filmmaker recently confirmed my suspicion that his originally silent film IsmIsm (1979) was provided with a generic punk-rock soundtrack on the BFI's Cinema of Transgression VHS compilation (1986), corrupting his artistic intentions and the original concept behind the film. These instances could be avoided by making the films available again in their original formats. As a minimum, one would be made aware of the discrepancy between manipulated and badly transferred images and the original works. -- excerpt from Sonja Simonyi, "Rediscovering the Work of Manuel DeLanda" ANNOTATED FILMOGRAPHY by Sonja Simonyi FILMS BY MANUEL DELANDA 1976 – Song of a Bitch (Super-8, color, 30 min.) Super-8 print lost, footage used and blown up to 16mm in Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed (1982). 1976 – Saliva Dildo – Premature Ejaculators (16mm, color, 8 min.) 1977 – The Itch Scratch Itch Cycle (16mm, color, 8 min.) 1978 – Incontinence: A Diarrhetic Flow of Mismatches (16mm, color, 18 min.) 1979 – Ismism (Super-8, color, silent, 8 min.) 1980 – Raw Nerves: A Lacanian Thriller (16mm, color, 30 min.) 1982 – Harmful or Fatal if Swallowed (Super-8, b&w, 8 min.) Original Super-8 version of the film, now lost. 1982 – Harmful
or Fatal if Swallowed (Super-8 blown up to 16mm, color & b&w, 12min.) This film incorporates footage from Shit and Song of Bitch, in addition to the original Super-8 version of the
film, made in the same year. 1983 – Judgement Day (Super-8, color, 7 min.) CO-CREDITED VIDEOS 1983 – Natalie Didn't Drown (¾ inch tape, color, 28 min.) co-directed and co-edited with Joan Braderman. 1986 – Joan Does Dynasty (½ inch tape, color, 35 min.) co-directed and co-edited with Joan Braderman. OTHER SUPER-8 FOOTAGE 1981 - Joe Coleman’s Police Sexuality Performance footage (Super-8, color, duration unknown) Untitled footage. Part of this footage is included in RIP: Rest in Pieces, A Portrait of Joe Coleman (1997). See below.
FOOTAGE OF DELANDA 1981 – The Super-8 Show: Beyond Home Movies, Produced by John Sanborn and Kit Fitzgerald for WNET/New York. Broadcast 1981, August 16, 11pm. (28 min.). The documentary introduces New York filmmakers working with Super-8. It incorporates an interview with and footage by DeLanda’s films. 1997 – RIP: Rest in Pieces, A Portrait of Joe Coleman, (35mm, color, 112 min.) Adrian-Robert Pejo. Conversation between Manuel DeLanda and artist Joe Coleman filmed in 1996. Also includes two minutes of Super-8 footage filmed by DeLanda at The Kitchen in 1981. See above. 2008 – Meeting of the Minds trailer, produced by the Film Arts Foundation. (10 min.) Promotional trailer
for a planned TV series on art,
science and philosophy, featuring short segment (interview) with DeLanda. 2002 – Manuel DeLanda, “Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Art." The Art & Technology Lectures, Columbia University, New York, NY, Sept. 4, 2002. Available at http://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/itc/visualarts/dmc/ramfiles/delanda_04_08_04.ra – Manuel DeLanda, “Policing Intellectual Property.” Sob Vigilância (Under Surveillance), Oeiras Municipal Library, Oeiras, Portugal, Sept. 28, 2002. Available at http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8399972055701212043&hl=en 2004 – Manuel DeLanda, “Nature Space Society.” Tate Modern, London, May 3, 2004. Available at www.tate.org.uk/onlineevents/archive/naturespacesociety/delanda.ram  2006 – Manuel DeLanda, “The Philosophy of Giles Deleuze.” The European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 3, 2006. Available at www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=D649C765D91C1120 2007 – Manuel DeLanda, “The Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze.” The European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, June 10, 2007. Available at www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0B57430831EF04A4 – Manuel De Landa, “The Origins of Artificial Intelligence.” Penn Humanities Forum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, July 11, 2007. Available at http://media.sas.upenn.edu/Humanities/delanda_592.mov 2008 – Manuel DeLanda, “Materialism, Experience and Philosophy.” The European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, 2008. Available at www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=38A848FA0C7479C3 COMPILATIONS FEATURING DELANDA FILMS ca.1987 – A Crack in the Tube, produced by Lyn Blumenthal for the Video Data Bank. (VHS, color and b&w, 90 min.) Includes Joan Does Dynasty. Other works featured are: Made for TV Ann Magnuson and Tom Rubnitz (1984, 15 min.), Betty Furness for Westinghouse, part 1(1950, 1 min.), Kiss the girls, make them cry Dara Birnbaum (1979, 7 min.), Aqui en esta esquina = Here on theis corner Sistema Sandinista de Television (1987, 13 min.) Betty Furness for Westinghouse, part. 2 (1950, 1 min.).  Books, solo author MDL:
Very select interviews Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky). Essay on and interview with Manuel DeLanda (1997?), www.djspooky.com/articles/essayonmanuel.html Karlo Pirc, “Interview with Manuel DeLanda” (1994), www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda/pages/interview_pirc.htm Scott MacDonald, “Raw Nerves: An Interview with Manuel DeLanda,” Afterimage, 13.6 (Jan. 1986): 12-15 & The Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (Virginia Tech University) created the excellent Manuel DeLanda Annotated Bibliography, www.cddc.vt.edu/host/delanda. Finally, Nick Zedd's "Cinema of Transgression Manifesto" (1984), which mentions DeLanda as one of seven exemplary filmmakers, is posted on U B U W E B, along with streaming video of 12 works from the so-called "No Wave" movement. www.ubu.com/film/transgression.html |