Henwar Rodakiewicz
Henwar Rodakiewicz (1903–1976) was an American filmmaker.
Henwar Rodakiewicz
- Born
- 1903
- Died
- 1976
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- film producer · film editor · cinematographer · documentary filmmaker · photographer · director
- Known for
- Adventure in the Bronx
- Languages
- English
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Henwar Rodakiewicz (1903–1976) was an American filmmaker.
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Henwar Rodakiewicz (1903–1976) was a cinematographer, director and documentary filmmaker, among other activities, of American nationality.
Among the works is Adventure in the Bronx. Languages used include English.
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• Illustration — The Roots of Happiness, a 1953 documentary directed by Rodakiewicz Rodakiewicz made the 1931 experimental documentary Portrait of a Young Man in Three Movements. It structures visual elements such as smoke, water, and plants into an abstract montage. He considered adding a soundtrack but decided against it, feeling it would be redundant to the montage. The Amateur Cinema League named it one of the ten best films of 1932, calling it "beautiful, exciting, workmanlike and distinguished." Rodakiewicz worked on Paul Strand's 1936 film Redes and Ralph Steiner's 1939 film The City.
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Rodakiewicz married twice, first to poet and ranch ownder Marie Tudor Garland and second to Peggy Bok.
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Henwar Rodakiewicz is recorded with the occupation documentary filmmaker. Recorded with the occupation film director. Recorded as film producer, film editor, cinematographer, documentary filmmaker and photographer.
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1902
Henwar Rodakiewicz was born on 1 January 1902.
1976
Henwar Rodakiewicz died on 1 January 1976.
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- 1.Levy, Josh. Celebrating Georgia O'Keeffe's Birthday with New Discoverability in the O'Keeffe-Stieglitz Digitized Papers at the Library of Congress. Library of Congress. November 15, 2022.
- 2.Tepperman, Charles. Amateur Cinema. University of California Press. 200–207. 2014. 978-0-520-27986-5.
- 3.Remes, Justin. Absence in Cinema: The Art of Showing Nothing. Columbia University Press. 171. 2020. 978-0-231-18931-6.
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