RECENT COURSES TAUGHT
CA 462 American Independent Cinema
CA 466 Writng for TV and Film (Screenwriting)
CA 613: The Films of Andy Warhol
CA 659: Advanced Film Production Workshop

ACTIVITIES
My films have been screened at numerous international film festivals, such as the New York Film Festival, Berlin, Edinburgh, Wellington, Auckland, Florence, the South Korean Experimental Film Exhibition, and the Virginia Festival of American Film. Most recently I have had my films screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York City), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), the Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Sallaves (Porto, Portugal), the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington, D. C), the Barbican Film Centre (London), the Austrian Film Museum (Vienna), and the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston).

I have written articles for Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, Film Culture, Field of Vision, and Film Studies: An International Review. I have just published a book entitled: Me and You and Memento and Fargo: How Independent Screenplays Work (Continuum Books, 290 pages, March 2007). For more info about this publication, please see my web site: jjmurphyfilm.com

For 2006-2007, I am the guest curator of the Spotlight Film and Video Series at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art. I also will be co-curating a major exhibition on Andy Warhol: Film, Photography and Television at MMoCA in spring of 2008. I am also a member of an international research group “Re-Thinking the Screenplay” at the University of Leeds, UK.

In spring of 2006, I received a Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. This year I became an affiliate member of the Art Department at UW-Madison, where I serve on a number of MFA committees in painting and drawing and multimedia.

RESEARCH INTERESTS
My major scholarly research interests include: screenwriting, American independent cinema, avant-garde cinema, and the films of Andy Warhol. I am also interested in all aspects of contemporary art, including film and video shown in museum and gallery contexts.

DEGREES

• M.A., University of Iowa, 1972
• B.S., University of Scranton, 1969

FILMOGRAPHY
Horicon (1990-94) 90 min. 16mm color/sound
Frame of Mind (1984-85) 80 min. 16mm color/sound
Terminal Disorder (1982-83) 42 min. 16mm color/sound
The Night Belongs to the Police (1981-82) 28 ½ min. 16mm color/sound
Preview (1979-80) 4 min. 16mm color/sound
Science Fiction (1979) 5 min. 16mm color/sound
Movie Stills (1977) 45 min. 16mm b & w/silent
Print Generation (1973-74) 50 min. 16mm color/sound
Sky Blue Water Light Sign (1972) 8 ½ min. 16mm color/sound
In Progress (1971-72) co-maker: Ed Small 18 min. 16mm color/silent
Ice (1972) 7 min. 16mm color/sound
Highway Landscape (1971-72) 6 ½ 16mm color/sound