Andrew Horn (filmmaker)

Andrew Horn ( born September 16, 1952 in New York, NY) is an American film director.

Andrew Horn studied at the New York School of Art. There he received training as a dancer and filmmaker. He then worked as a graphic designer and began to make her first films. In 1989 he moved for a DAAD scholarship to Berlin. Since then he has been working here as an author and filmmaker.

Andrew Horn emerged from experimental dance films. Doomed Love (1983 ) was his first feature film. This and his second film The Big Blue (1988 ) ran in the international forum of young film at the Berlinale ( IFB). In the film East Side Story (directed by Dana Ranga ), he was a producer and writer. 2004 was its most recent film The Nomi Song about the same singer Klaus Nomi, who due to his voice ( countertenor ) and his outrageous outfits the icon of the New York underground became and in the late 1970s cult figure of the New Wave scene.

Filmography

Doomed Love (1983 ) is an ironic parody of the myth of romantic love. This film is a kind of modern " opera". He tells a romantic love triangle full of passions and obsessions. The focus is on an aging professor. The film takes place in front of painted backdrops and bizarre, he employs a stylized language that is made up of everyday stereotypes. Film and Opera citations can be found as well in this film as the fusion of acoustic sound images with visual symbols. This Andrew Horn wants to explore our understanding of the concept of romantic love.

The script wrote Jim New ( a former employee of Robert Wilson). The music came from Evan Lurie, a band member of the Lounge Lizards. The expressionist film decor designed Sillmann Amy and Pamela Wilson. The main role was played by Bill Rice (known from Vortex, Subway Riders and decoder).

The Big Blue (1987 ), Andrew Horn's second feature film, as the stylized version of an old familiar story must be considered. It's about a corrupt cop whose wife is convinced that her husband is unfaithful to her. She is involved Jack Kidd to verify the matter. This leads to misunderstandings. This film is similar expressionistic created as Doomed Love and here it is to explore the interplay between image and sound content on the one hand and of human language on the other side. The focus is on the intra- psychological processes in which this film differs significantly from the horn 's first feature film.