Larry
Gottheim

Larry Gottheim is a key figure in the history and development of American avant-garde cinema in the 1970s. His work often shares the simple structure of the earliest films but also relates to minimal, conceptual, and process art practices. Gottheim is the founder of the extremely influential and first cinema department in the SUNY system at SUNY Binghamton.

"Gottheim's cinema is a quest of origins. The films elaborate a response to the fictions of our world, the construction of images and sounds, the repeating cycles of life and nature. The profoundness of Gottheim's act is to elaborate a body of work outside of fashion and within a search for an authentic language of cinematic discourse." (John Hanhardt, on the occasion of the presentation of the full "Elective Affinities" cycle at the Whitney Museum, 1981).