“Just Only Men”
20 min, 2007
Flmmaker based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work explores the poetics of movement and psychological awareness. He is also a MD and psychoanalyst.
Daniel Böhm studied cinematography and film at New York University. His films have received international recognition, including a First Prize at the Joseph Papp Latino Film Festival in New York, a Golden Plaque in Chicago’s International Film Festival, and a Silver Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Competition, among others.
His work was shown in many countries, including solo exhibitions at Centro Recoleta (Buenos Aires 2009), Beith Hahomanut (Tel Aviv, Israel, 2009), Galería Laura Haber (Buenos Aires, 2010), and a retrospective at the Slought Foundation (Philadelphia, USA, 2008).
Part of his work explores gender and age related subjects. In his latest films, “2 Rooms” and “Cinematic Portraits”, women from different generations face a tender and merciless camera. The loose narrative, just stitched together, allows a space for personal identification, creating a vibrant topology of sleep and time. In “Sólo Hombres Solos”, inspired by the photography of Duane Michals, he explored male bonding and movement through a poetic investigation. His photographic work, “Film Stills” and “Raconto” explore love and desire through intimate but bare landscapes. One of his latest exhibitions, “Entropía”, puts together peaople and nature in metanarrative diptychs.
Published the fiction books Fuera de cuadro in 2019 and Una flor en el jardín del mal in 2023.
"There is something inherently strange in the work of Dany Böhm, something removed from our time, something timeless. These films appear as apparitions from the past, movies that look and feel like old movies. This is a compliment and not a critique, for as they unreel, the images make you realize that you are watching the history of cinema. By inserting itself into this artistic strategy, Böhm's oeuvre creates an experience that is a phylogenetic reencounter with the essence of cinematography. Engaging with the collectivities of human nature and rejecting the trivialities of momentary human drama, Böhm makes films that create a universal narrative of plurisexual psychology, played out to conclusion through dances of intimation by silent actors." -- Osvaldo Romberg
Read the full curatorial essay by Osvaldo Romberg, for the Slought Foundation
“Cinematic Portraits”
15 min, 2009
