Jake Yuzna

Jake Yuzna
Born Minneapolis, Minnesota
Occupation Film director and screenwriter
Years active 2004-present

Jake Yuzna is an American film director, screenwriter, and curator. His debut feature Open was the first American film to win the Teddy Jury Prize and the Berlin Film Festival and in 2005 Yuzna become the youngest recipient of funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Although known mainly for his work in film, Yuzna has curated several retrospectives, exhibitions and special projects. In 2010 he founded the first cinema program at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City. Between 2011 - 2013 he organized the first fellowship, publication and conference to argue nightlife as a form of contemporary art.[1][2][3]

Yuzna is the son of poet Susan Yuzna and nephew to horror film director and producer Brian Yuzna.

Filmography

Year Film
2004 Between the Boys (short)
2005 Better Left Alone (short)
2010 Open

Awards and honors

Curation

Year Project
2010 Blood into Gold: The Cinematic Alchemy of Alejandro Jodorowsky
2011 - 2013 THE FUN Fellowship in the Social Practice of Nightlife
2011 Sion Sono: The New Poet
2011 François Sagat: The New Leading Man
2012 VHS
2012 Argento: Il Cinema Nel Sangue
2012 No Wave Cinema
2013 After the Museum
2013 It Is Crispin Hellion Glover
2013 Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Quentin Crisp
2013 Without Compromise: The Cinema of William Klein
2013 God Help Me: Gregg Araki
2014 NYC Makers: The 2014 MAD Biennial
2014 Life with Technology: The Cinema of Godfrey Reggio
2015 It's Hard to be Human: The Cinema of Roy Andersson
2015 The Director Must Not Be Credited: 20 Years of Dogme 95
2015 The Unseen Cinema of HR Giger
2015 Andrei Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time

References

  1. Vartanian, Hrag. "Putting the FUN in New York Nightlife". hyperallergic. hyperallergic. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  2. Frisicano, Andrew; Theeboom, Sarah. "Fall in New York: three NYC photo books; the Queens Museum reopens". Time Out New York. Time Out Inc. Retrieved 5 August 2015.
  3. Corona, Victor P. "Starry Nightlife at MAD Museum". NY Art Beat. New York Art Beat. Retrieved 5 August 2015.

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