Two short films by Mark Rappaport - FRIENDS(1967) & TWO FOR THE OPERA BOX(2020)
Mark Rappaport, after making more than a half a dozen shorts in the 60s and early 70s, made 5 features in the 70s—CASUAL RELATIONS (1973), MOZART IN LOVE (1975), LOCAL COLOR (1977), THE SCENIC ROUTE (1978) and IMPOSTORS (1979). CHAIN LETTERS followed in1985. THE SCENIC ROUTE won The British Film Institute’s Sutherland Award as “the most imaginative and innovative film of the year.”  In the 90s, Rappaport began working in video with POSTCARDS (1990) a video narrative. ROCK HUDSON’S HOME MOVIES (1992), EXTERIOR NIGHT (1993) – another experimental video narrative, FROM THE JOURNALS OF JEAN SEBERG (1995), THE SILVER SCREEN/COLOR ME LAVENDER (1997) and the short, JOHN GARFIELD (2002) followed.
Rappaport has also been writing fiction and essays about films for over twenty years. Several of his pieces, written for the French film magazine, Trafic, were published in France in 2008 in the collection, The Moviegoer Who Knew Too Much (Le Spectateur qui en savait trop). That collection, plus three other collections of his writings, (F)au(x)tobiographies, The Secret Life of Moving Shadows (Part 1 & 2) are now available in English on Kindle from Amazon.
Rappaport also makes photomontages and has had shows in New York, Spain, Rotterdam, Nantes, Ghent, and Paris.