DANIEL BÖHM
“Sólo Hombres Solos”
20 min, 2007
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Daniel Böhm is a filmmaker based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
His cinema explores the poetics of movement and psychological awareness.
After his initial career as a psychoanalyst, Daniel Bohm studied cinematography and film directing at New York University. He worked as a director of photography while directing his fiction shorts. In 1996 he created ‘El Rayo’, an innovative and award-winning TV show combing music and style reporting, which aired on a major Argentine network for seven years. He directed hundreds of commercials and music videos for Bohm Cine, the production company he founded in 2000.
His short films have received international recognition, including a First Prize at the Joseph Papp Latino Film Festival in New York, a Golden Plaque in Chicago’s International Film Festival, and a Silver Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Competition, among others.
His latest film, Sólo Hombres Solos, completes a dance-film triptych. Inspired by the photography of Duane Michals, the film explores three men who share an apartment, albeit unaware of each other's presence: They are each one and the same person, at different stages of life, whose paths unexpectedly intersect for a moment. The camera witnesses this instant through a poetic investigation on male bonding and movement.
"There is something inherently strange in the work of Dany Böhm, something removed from our time, something timeless. These films appear as apparitions from the past, movies that look and feel like old movies. This is a compliment and not a critique, for as they unreel, the images make you realize that you are watching the history of cinema. By inserting itself into this artistic strategy, Böhm's oeuvre creates an experience that is a phylogenetic reencounter with the essence of cinematography. Engaging with the collectivities of human nature and rejecting the trivialities of momentary human drama, Böhm makes films that create a universal narrative of plurisexual psychology, played out to conclusion through dances of intimation by silent actors." -- Osvaldo Romberg
Read the full curatorial essay by Osvaldo Romberg, for the Slought Foundation
Daniel Böhm
“Retratos”
15 min, 2009