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Edin Velez is a Puerto Rican video artist, director and professor. [1] [2] He is best known for his work on the documentary films State of Rest and Motion and Dance of Darkness. [3] [4]
Edin was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is currently based in New York. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. [5] He moved to the US in the early 1970s and became part of the first generation of video artists working in SoHo, Manhattan. [6] [7] His directorial debut documentary film on Japanese Butoh, Dance of Darkness, was broadcast nationally in the US by PBS. [8] He is a professor and coordinator of the video program at Rutgers University–Newark. [9]
Edin has received numerous award, including American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S./Japan Friendship Commission, the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. [10] [11] [12]
Edin's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, documenta 8, American Film Institute National Video Festival, Museum of Modern Art and International Center of Photography. [13] [14] [15]
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| Year | Film | Director | Cinematographer | Notes |
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| 2017 | State of Rest and Motion |  | | Editor and producer |
| 2012 | My Brooklyn |  | | |
| 2009 | Never Enough | | | |
| 2009 | RFK in the Land of Apartheid | | | |
| 2007 | A Certain Foolish Consistency | | | Producer |
| 2002 | This and That, and other Minor Misunderstandings | | | Editor and producer |
| 1995 | Memory of Fire | | | |
| 1992 | Art on Film, Program 3: Form | | | |
| 1990 | A Mosque in Time | | | [16] |
| 1989 | Dance of Darkness | | | Museum of Modern Art |
| 1987 | Meaning of the Interval | | | Museum of Modern Art [17] |
| 1984 | AS IS | | | |
| 1984 | Oblique Strategist | | | |
| 1981 | Meta Mayan II | | | Museum of Modern Art |
| 1978 | TULE | | | Museum of Modern Art |
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