Thom Andersen

Thom Andersen has lived in Los Angeles for most of his life In the 1960s he made short films including Melting 1965 Olivias Place 1966 and 1967 with Malcolm Brodwick In 1974 he completed Eadweard Muybridge Zoopraxographer an hourlong documentation of Muybridges photographic work In 1995 with Noël Burch he completed Red Hollywood a videotape about the filmwork created by the victims of the Hollywood Blacklist Their work on the history of the Blacklist also produced a book Les Communistes de Hollywood Autre chose que des martyrs published in 1994 In 2003 he completed Los Angeles Plays Itself a videotape about the representation of Los Angeles in movies It won the National Film Board of Canada Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival and it was voted best documentary of 2004 in the Village Voice Film Critics Poll He has taught film composition at the California Institute of the Arts since 1987