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Mark LaPore (d. 2005)

Birthplace:
Tacoma, Washington, U.S

Died:
January 1, 2005

Biography from TheMovieDB

Mark LaPore was an experimental ethnographic filmmaker who made several films in the Sudan, India and Sri Lanka, as well as various parts of the U.S. over a period of nearly thirty years. A dedicated iconoclast and personal artist, LaPore strove to document and portray the cultures with which he connected in ways that were true to his experiences as a traveler as well as being honest reflections of people and scenes that he was witnessing. LaPore worked against conventions of ethnographic narrative, using cinema at its most fundamental level as an objective tool that could also be harnessed for personal response and expression. He was also an influential teacher at the Massachusetts College of Art, and many of his students have gone on to become significant filmmakers in their own right. LaPore's tragic and premature death on September 11, 2005, robbed American independent cinema of one of its most original and dedicated talents. - Steve Anker

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Film Production

Camera Operator:
1988  Submission

Director:
1973  Halloween
1983  Medina
1983  Work and Play
1985  The Sleepers
1988  Submission
1989  Sudan Rolls
1996  A Depression in the Bay of Bengal
1997  The Five Bad Elements
2000  The Glass System
2002  Mekong
2005  Crossroad
2005  Kolkata
2005  Lunatic Princess
2006  Untitled (for David Gatten)

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