One-Person Exhibitions of Avant-Garde Film (12 films made between 1968 and 1978)    

    current - the Royal Film Archive of Belgium has collected all my film materials and is restoring the films digitally    
    1996    Anthology Film Archive, New York City
    1993    Anthology Film Archive*, NYC
    1990    Filmoteca de Catalunya*, Barcelona; Filmoteca Espanola*, Madrid; Arsenal Kino*, Berlin; Dusseldorf Film Institut*;
                Filmmuseum im Stadmuseum*, Munich; National Film Museum, Brussels
    1989    Anthology Film Archive, NYC
    1980    Museum of Modern Art, NYC
    1979    Royal Film Archive, Brussels; Swedish Film Institute, Stockholm; State Art College, Hamburg, Germany;
                London Filmmakers Coop, London, England; St. Martins College of Art, London, England;
                Pacific Film Archive, University of California Art Museum, Berkeley; San Francisco Cinematheque.
    1978    Millenium, NYC; Cinematheque, San Francisco; Theatre Vanguard, Los Angeles
    1977    Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    1976    Anthology Film Archive, NYC (film/video—1st museum solo show in NYC of film and video by same artist)
    *complete two- or three-day retrospectives, eight to twelve films



Film Festivals

    1979     FilmLondon—Second International Avant-Garde Film Festival, National Theatre, London, England
    1974     EXPRMNTL-5, Fifth International Experimental Film Competition of the Royal Film Archive of
                 Belgium, Knokke-Heist
    1972-79   Ann Arbor, Bellevue, et al



Bibliography (film)

    • “Experimentos”, Christina Baulies, LAS NOTICIAS, Barcelona, May 25, 1990
    • “Los Films de Dana Gordon...”, M. Torriero, EL PAIS, Madrid, May 22, 1990
    • “...el cineast y pintor Dana Gordon”, AVUI, Barcelona, May 23, 1990
    • “Dana Gordon y su cine 'underground'...”, LA VANGUARDIA, Barcelona, May 23, 1990
    • Program Essay, Richard Pena, Director, Lincoln Center Film Society, 1990
    • Program Essay, Christian Pellet, Associate, Anthology Film Archive, 1990
    • Program Essay, Dana Gordon, Cineprobe, Museum of Modern Art, 1980; also, Walker Art Center, 1977
    • “Dana Gordon, Two Films at MOMA”, Marc Waldor, MILLENIUM FILM JOURNAL, 1982
    •  Amy Taubin, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, 1979
    • “James Benning and Dana Gordon”, Douglas Edwards, GOSH, Los Angeles, May, 1979
    • “Dana Gordon Films at Theatre Vanguard”, Linda Gross, LOS ANGELES TIMES, 3/21/78



Some of the films: (all originally 16mm)

"12 Shots", 14 min., silent,1979

"Paradise Spy", 90 min., 1978 (in solo show, MoMA, 1980)

"Perugia Ambulamatograph", 42 min., 1975

"Movie Set Theory, a Universe of Discourse, a Table of Contexts", 20 min. 1975

"You Can't Alter Facts by Filming Them Over with Dead Romances", 45 min., 1974 (in Knokke, Exprmntl 5, 1974)

"Boston Transference", 9 min., 1974

"Vaudeville", 7 min., silent, 1973

"Central Nervous System, Monolog and Travelog", 20 min., 1968-70


Available to view on Vimeo:

"You Can't Alter Facts by Filming Them Over with Dead Romances", 45 min., 1974
https://vimeo.com/164902369

"Perugia Ambulamatograph", 42 min., 1975
https://vimeo.com/164905332