RAMON RIVERA MORET
Ramón Rivera-Moret’s practice engages an experimental approach to storytelling, bringing together a multiplicity of stories and situations through a mixture of narrative strategies. He is interested in ways to construct cinematic stories beyond traditional paradigms - including the abstract, the fragment and the small gesture - within an open ended, non-linear narrative.
Ramón's works include LA DIRECCIÓN DEL CIELO, a series of films reflecting on astronomical traditions across the Americas that explore our relationship to the world. In THE ORDINAL DIRECTIONS, a four-channel video installation, recorded over a period of a year in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, NY, the flow of time and space provide the piece’s forward momentum through a cascade of encounters. ON CALLOWAY STREET, a feature non-fiction film, interweaves the stories of a group of immigrants from radically different cultures living in an ordinary building in Queens, NY. Chishimo: A Lunda Story, shot on location in northwestern Zambia, follows the life of a traditional African doctor. Eyes Upside Down, multiple site-specific outdoor projections of the night sky, was installed at Amherst College.
Ramón’s films and videos have been exhibited at Anthology Film Archives; Millennium Film Workshop; The Queens Museum Of Art; The Birmingham Museum Of Art; The American Museum Of Natural History; Amherst College; Hampshire College; Chicago Filmmakers; and the Ann Arbor, Athens, Chicago Latino, and San Francisco Art Institute Film Festivals. Ramón has received grants and awards from The National Endowment for the Arts, The National Endowment for the Humanities, The Independent Television Service (ITVS), The NEA/American Film Institute Regional Fellowships; The Jerome Foundation; the New York State Council On The Arts; the Amherst Art Series Fund; the Institute Of Puerto Rican Culture; the Puerto Rican National Cultural Development Program; and the Puerto Rico Film Development Fund.
Ramón Rivera-Moret is currently Associate Professor in the Film/Animation/Video Department at the Rhode Island School of Design. Prior to his appointment at RISD, Ramón was Visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute in New York, and Artist in Residence and Visiting Assistant Professor of Filmmaking at Amherst College. Ramón has lectured on his films at Hampshire College, Amherst College and the Queens Museum Of Art.
Ramón was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico and is now based in New York, NY.