Edin Velez

Edin Velez is a Puerto Rican video artist, director and professor. He is best known for his work on the documentary films State of Rest and Motion and Dance of Darkness.

Life and career Edin was born and raised in Puerto Rico and is currently based in New York. He studied painting at the University of Puerto Rico and the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture. He moved to the US in the early 1970s and became part of the first generation of video artists working in SoHo, Manhattan. His directorial debut documentary film on Japanese Butoh, Dance of Darkness, was broadcast nationally in the US by PBS. He is a professor and coordinator of the video program at Rutgers University–Newark.

Edin has received numerous award, including American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the U.S./Japan Friendship Commission, the Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts.

Selected exhibitions Edin's work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions in such institutions as the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, documenta 8, American Film Institute National Video Festival, Museum of Modern Art and International Center of Photography.

Filmography

YearFilmDirectorCinematographerNotes 2017 State of Rest and Motion Editor and producer 2012 My Brooklyn 2009 Never Enough 2009 RFK in the Land of Apartheid 2007 A Certain Foolish Consistency Producer 2002 This and That, and other Minor Misunderstandings Editor and producer 1995 Memory of Fire 1992 Art on Film, Program 3: Form 1990 A Mosque in Time 1989 Dance of Darkness Museum of Modern Art 1987 Meaning of the Interval Museum of Modern Art 1984 AS IS 1984 Oblique Strategist 1981 Meta Mayan II Museum of Modern Art 1978 TULE Museum of Modern Art