Michel Auder: Blind Sex, 1983, edited 2009 1⁄2” Betamax video SP to digital video SD, color, sound, 5:16 min. Courtesy the artist and Office Baroque Gallery.
French filmmaker Michel Auder has obsessively documented his life since moving to New York and acquiring a Sony Portapak in the late 1960s. A selection of Auder’s often frenetically edited video pieces-the earliest is Chronicles Morocco, from 1971-72, the most recent 2013’s Do You Love Me?-document everything from intimate and mundane moments from the artist’s life in New York to exotic travels. A poignant essay by Participant’s Lia Gangitano elevates the gallery’s press release from typical PR-speak.