Michael Oblowitz
South African film director
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| Intro | South African film director | |||||||||
| Places | South Africa | |||||||||
| is | Film director | |||||||||
| Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio | |||||||||
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| Birth | 1952, Cape Town, City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa | |||||||||
| Age | 73 years | |||||||||
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Biography
Michael Oblowitz is a South African filmmaker.
Born in Cape Town, he is an Arts History, Fine Arts and Philosophy graduate of the University of Cape Town. Oblowitz holds an M.F.A. in Film Theory and Production from Columbia University 1982. He studied color photography and printing at the Central School of Art London (1976).
Notable films
- The Is/Land-Circuits of Control (with David Goldberg, 1978)
- King Blank (1982)
- This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
- Sea of Darkness (Documentary, 2010)
- The Traveler (2010 film) (2010)
- The Ganzfeld Experiment (2013)
- Heavy Water (2017)
- Frank and Ava (2018)
Television
- Dante's Cove (TV Series) (writer 2 episodes) - Then There Was Darkness (2005) and The Beginning (2005)
Music videos
- Basketball Kurtis Blow (1983)
- The Healer John Lee Hooker and Carlos Santana (1993)
- Mustang Sally Buddy Guy and Jeff Beck (1994)
- Booker T and the M.G's Live in Laguna (Music Documentary, 1995)
- Buddy Guy - Live: The Real Deal (Music Documentary, 1996)
- Standing Here The Stone Roses (1997)
Selected filmography
- 1977 X-terminator, (short film)
- 1977 Table Conversation, (Short Film)
- 1979 Minus Zero
- 1979 "Death Magazine"
- 1979 "Red Love Color"
- 1980 Too Sensitive to Touch
- 1998 The Areola (Co-Directed)
- 2001 The Breed
- 2003 Out for a Kill
- 2003 The Foreigner
- 2005 Hammerhead: Shark Frenzy,
- 2008 Romantic Resorts
- 2016 Untitled Sunny Garcia Documentary (in production)
Sources
- Michael Oblowitz on IMDb