{"id":7622,"date":"2018-03-16T12:00:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-16T18:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2025-01-09T10:58:18","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T16:58:18","slug":"march-22-edward-owens-a-portrait-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2018\/03\/16\/march-22-edward-owens-a-portrait-study\/","title":{"rendered":"March 22 &#8211; Edward Owens: A Portrait Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_7586\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7586\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7586 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/03.22_Edward_Owens_RembranceAPortraitStudy_1967.-Courtesy-of-the-Film-makers_-Cooperative-USE-WEB-ONLY-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/03.22_Edward_Owens_RembranceAPortraitStudy_1967.-Courtesy-of-the-Film-makers_-Cooperative-USE-WEB-ONLY-1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2018\/01\/03.22_Edward_Owens_RembranceAPortraitStudy_1967.-Courtesy-of-the-Film-makers_-Cooperative-USE-WEB-ONLY-1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7586\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edward Owens, still from Remembrance: A Portrait Study, 1967. Image courtesy of the Film-makers&#8217; Cooperative.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In the mid 1960s, Edward Owens (SAIC 1966\u201367), a young African American artist from the South Side of Chicago, burst onto New York\u2019s artistic underground scene with a series of strikingly beautiful films of heartbreak, queer desire, and his own family. With their layered images and flickering edits, the films show the influence of Owens\u2019 mentor, filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos, with whom he had studied as one of the first film students at SAIC. Yet, Owens developed a distinct style, particularly in his painterly approach to portraiture and allegory. These films were lauded by his contemporaries; for example, the critic Parker Tyler included Owens\u2019 1967 film\u00a0<em>Remembrance: A Portrait Study\u00a0<\/em>as one of the avant-garde\u2019s key works in his landmark study\u00a0<em>Underground Film: A Critical History.<\/em>\u00a0Despite these achievements, Owens\u2019 works have been largely overlooked until recent efforts by the critic Ed Halter and New York\u2019s Film-Makers\u2019 Cooperative to bring them to new light. Rarely screened in his own home town, this evening\u2019s program is a unique opportunity to reassess Owens\u2019 singular body of work.<\/p>\n<p><em>1966\u201368, USA, 16mm to 2K digital file, ca 57 min + discussion<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Introduced by critic Ed Halter<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lightindustry.org\/owens\"><strong>Edward Owens\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>was an African American artist and filmmaker. He studied painting and sculpture at SAIC, in addition to making 8mm movies. Encouraged by his mentor, filmmaker Gregory Markopoulos, Owens moved to New York City. There he met filmmaker-poet Charles Boultenhouse, with whom Owens became romantically involved. Owens returned to Chicago for personal reasons in 1971, finishing his college degree but never completing another film. The time Owens spent in New York resulted in several films that showcase a unique approach to imagery, lighting, editing, and narrative that defines his brief yet meaningful career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mid 1960s, Edward Owens (SAIC 1966\u201367), a young African American artist from the South Side of Chicago, burst onto New York\u2019s artistic underground scene with a series of strikingly beautiful films of heartbreak, queer desire, and his own family. With their layered images and flickering edits, the films show the influence of Owens\u2019 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2018\/03\/16\/march-22-edward-owens-a-portrait-study\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from March 22 &#8211; Edward Owens: A Portrait Study<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":7586,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[115,183,187,229,442,481],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-23","tag-chicago","tag-ed-halter","tag-edward-owens","tag-film-makers-cooperative","tag-new-york","tag-portrait"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9784,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/9784"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}