FACULTY SABBATICAL TRIENNIAL

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FACULTY SABBATICAL TRIENNIAL

Frédéric Moffet

Professor, Film, Video, New Media, and Animation

fredericmoffet.com

Frédéric Moffet has been teaching at SAIC since 1998. He took his sabbatical during the AY2023–24.

Frédéric Moffet is an award-winning French-Canadian filmmaker, artist, educator, editor, and cultural worker. His work explores the slippery territory between history, lived experience and fantasy. He loves to read, goes to the gym regularly and sleeps very well. He is often worried about the state of the world. His projects include: The Job, Goddess of Speed, Horsey, Fever Freaks, The Magic Hedge, Adresse Permanente, The Faithful, POSTFACE, Jean Genet in Chicago, and Hard Fat.

Screenings include: Oberhausen Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, National Center for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), Whitechapel Art Gallery (London), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), PPOW Gallery (New York), Biennial of Moving Images (Geneva), Pleasure Dome (Toronto), Other Cinema (San Francisco), Kassel Documentary Film Festival, Microwave (Hong Kong) and Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.

Awards include: Canada Council for the Arts; Gus Van Sant Award at Ann Arbor Film festival; Santiago International Short Film Festival; FLEX Film/Video Festival; Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival; Chicago Underground Film Festival and many more.

Education

1998 Master of Fine Arts, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1995 Bachelor of Arts (Specialisation: Film Production), Concordia University, Montreal

Notable Classes Taught:

Graduate Production Seminar; Media Practices: The Moving Image

Frédéric Moffet - Goddess of Speed

Goddess of Speed, 2023, 16mm transfer to 4K Scope (2.39) 8:05 mins

Frédéric Moffet - Goddess of Speed

Goddess of Speed, 2023, 16mm transfer to 4K Scope (2.39) 8:05 mins

Frédéric Moffet - Goddess of Speed

Goddess of Speed, 2023, 16mm transfer to 4K Scope (2.39) 8:05 mins

Frédéric Moffet - Goddess of Speed

Goddess of Speed, 2023, 16mm transfer to 4K Scope (2.39) 8:05 mins

A film titled Dance Movie (aka Rollerskate) appears in many Warhol filmographies, but no work with this title can be found in the Collection. The lost film, starring dancer Fred Herko gliding on a single roller skate, was shot in 1963.

Herko was a talented dancer and choreographer who cofounded and performed with the Judson Dance Theater. Herko was also associated with the Mole People, a group of queer men and women who came together to get high on speed and listen to opera. In October 1964, unhoused and strung out on drugs, Herko leapt out of an open window while dancing naked to Mozart’s Coronation Mass in C Major.

Although the current location of Dance Movie is unknown, accounts of it do exist, including Warhol’s evocative description in POPism of Herko “gliding in dance attitudes and looking as perfect as the ornament on the hood of a car.”

Goddess of Speed poetically reimagines the missing film.

The film was inspired by Professor Bruce Jenkins’ Andy Warhol Film Catalogue Raisonné (vol. 2: 1963–65).

Credits:

Director/Editor/Sound Designer: Frédéric Moffet

Performer: Stevie Cisneros Hanley

Cinematographer: Kioto Aoki

Production Assistant: Tiago Mena Abrantes

Sound Mix: Julian Flavin

Original text: Bruce Jenkins and Diane Di Prima

Shot on location at No Nation

Distributed by Video Data Bank and Vidéographe

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RELATED PROGRAM:

CONVERSATIONS AT THE EDGE | FRÉDÉRIC MOFFET: YOU’RE TOO LOVELY TO LAST
Thursday, September 11, 6:00 P.M.
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 N. State St.
Artist and filmmaker Frédéric Moffet presents three new films alongside works by Jamie Ross, Zuqiang Peng, and Amina Ross. Titled after a Billie Holiday lyric, the program explores beauty, impermanence, desire, and loss. Followed by a conversation with John Neff.