Morris Engel’s groundbreaking feature film Little Fugitive (co-directed with Ruth Orkin and Ray Ashley) is covered at length in Jon Gartenberg’s article “NYC Symphony of Films,” recently published in Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media.
Engel’s “Rebecca” photos seen in upcoming film “Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl,” 2025
Graphics designed from Morris Engel’s “Rebecca, Harlem 1947” photo series appear in the upcoming film Travel Notes of a Geechee Girl directed by Julie Dash.
To access an article on the film, please click the following link: TNGG_Creative_Deck_v6_1.24.24.
Engel stills displayed in a Henri-Cartier Bresson Retrospective at the HCB Foundation, Paris, 2024
Two photographs of Henri-Cartier Bresson taken by Morris Engel were displayed in a retrospective on the French photographer at the HCB Foundation in Paris between June 15, 2024 and January 5, 2025.
Engel photo included in new book “Mix and Match,” 2024
The following photograph taken by Morris Engel (ca. 1970) was included in Nicola Erni’s new book Mix and Match: Fashion Photography Meets Contemporary Art, published by Phaidon Press.
Morris Engel’s D-Day photographs featured in “UTAH BEACH” book, 2024
Photos of Normandy on D-Day that Morris Engel took as a naval combat photographer are featured in Utah Beach: Fighting our way shore with the 2nd Naval Beach Battalion.
Little Fugitive Selected by Wes Anderson for the Berlin Film Festival
The 2023 Berlin Film Festival unveiled the titles selected for its retrospective section, asking a number of international directors and actors (including Martin Scorsese and Tilda Swinton) to select their personal favorite film which explores the theme of “Coming of Age at the Movies.” Director Wes Anderson selected Little Fugitive, co-directed by Ruth Orkin, Morris Engel, and Ray Ashley. Orkin also edited the film, which won the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1953.
Morris Engel’s camera featured in Joel Schemowitz’s new book about filmmaking
Morris Engel’s innovative hand-made 35mm camera used for his films is featured in his former associate’s Joel Schlemowitz wonderful new book! Joel is a talented filmmaker, professor at The New School and a new father!
Experimental Filmmaking and the Motion Picture Camera is an introductory guide to experimental filmmaking, surveying the practical methods of experimental film production as well as the history, theory, and aesthetics of experimental approaches.
Author Joel Schlemowitz explains the basic mechanism of the camera before going on to discuss slow and fast motion filming, single-frame time lapse, the long take, camera movement, workings of the lens, and the use of in-camera effects such as double-exposure. A comprehensive guide to using the 16mm Bolex camera is provided. Strategies for making films edited in camera are covered. A range of equipment beyond the basic non-sync camera is surveyed. The movie diary and film portrait are examined, along with the work of a range of experimental filmmakers including Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt, Paul Clipson, Christopher Harris, Peter Hutton, Takahiko Iimura, Marie Losier, Rose Lowder, Jonas Mekas, Marie Menken, Margaret Rorison, Guy Sherwin, and Tomonari Nishikawa.
This is the ideal book for students interested in experimental and alternative modes of filmmaking. It provides invaluable insight into the history, methods, and concepts inherent to experimental uses of the camera, while providing students with a solid foundation of techniques and practices to foster their development as filmmakers.
Supplemental material, including links to films cited in the book, can be found at www.experimentalfilmmaking.com
Author bio
Joel Schlemowitz is an experimental filmmaker who works with 16mm film, shadowplay, magic lanterns, and stereographic media. He teaches experimental filmmaking at The New School, New York. His first feature film, 78rpm, is an experimental documentary about the gramophone and his short works have been shown at numerous film festivals including the New York Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Ann Arbor Film Festival. For more information visit www.joelschlemowitz.com
Jason E. Hill new book artist as report about PM Newspaper
Thanks to Jason Hill for posting this page from PM today and his quote, Morris Engel and the Consolidated Sign Co. wish you all a very organized Labor Day! Another one of my father’s photo spreads from PM I don’t remember seeing.
ARTIST AS REPORTER Weegee, Ad Reinhardt and the PM News Picture by Jason E. Hill
Active from 1940 to 1948, PM was a progressive New York City daily tabloid newspaper committed to the politics of labor, social justice, and antifascism—and it priorit…
