Maker/Artist
Atlas, Charles
American filmmaker and video artist, born 1949
Videographer and filmmaker worked closely with Merce Cunningham from ca.1975 to 1983, as an assistant stage manager, and filmmaker-in-residence. He worked with the British dancer and choreographer Michael Clark in the mid-1980s, producing a feature-length fictional documentary; "Hail the New Puritan." He has also worked collaboratively with Marina Abramovic and Yvonne Rainer. His video works have been exhibited in galleries and museums internationally; including the Tate Modern, London; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
