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Release Date: 2008

Cast: Michel Auder

Categories: Movies, Documentary, Experimental film, Biopic [feature], Avant-garde

'The Feature' is a collaboration between filmmakers Michel Auder and Andrew Neel. Using a vast video ‘library’ that Auder has created over the last 40 years, in combination with original present-day footage of Auder shot by Neel, the two filmmakers are setting out to make a feature length film loosely based on the story of Auder’s life. Auder pioneered a form of video diary, starting with his first Sony Portapak camera in 1969, obsessively documenting the people, places and events in his life. His style and originality have been protected from the constraints of commercial filmmaking... MORE

'The Feature' is a collaboration between filmmakers Michel Auder and Andrew Neel. Using a vast video ‘library’ that Auder has created over the last 40 years, in combination with original present-day footage of Auder shot by Neel, the two filmmakers are setting out to make a feature length film loosely based on the story of Auder’s life. Auder pioneered a form of video diary, starting with his first Sony Portapak camera in 1969, obsessively documenting the people, places and events in his life. His style and originality have been protected from the constraints of commercial filmmaking (as he planned), and what results is a highly idiosyncratic visual record of his life and times. The Feature marks Auder’s return to a more mainstream cinematic mode of story telling – a mode he has not visited since the early years of his career. Auder’s life is punctuated by marriages to Viva Superstar and Cindy Sherman and a loose affiliation with the Warhol Factory. Some of his most intimate moments are captured on tape. He is a consummate voyeur – one who literally reads scenes of intimacy and daily life as verses of poetry unto themselves. From the gritty bohemian haunts in New York City, to the LESS