Michel Auder b. 1945

Michel Auder was born in Soissons, in the north of France in 1945. He began making films in Paris in the early 1960s. In 1969 he purchased a Sony Portapak, the first portable video camera, embarking upon his long running career as a video maker.

At once poetic and critical, cruel and confessional, internationally known French artist Michel Auder’s casually virtuosic videos have for over five decades disrupted traditional perceptual habits of moviegoers and art audiences alike, subverting notions of filmic narrative and process. Employing new video formats as they become available, the New York based Auder has produced short and feature films, video installations and photography that transgress genres, borrowing from art history, literature, commercial television, and experimental cinema, and was most recently featured at the documenta 14, and 2014 Whitney Biennial,  Frans Hals Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France, documenta 13.