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Emile Francisco de Antonio (May 14, 1919: 3 – December 15, 1989) was an American director and producer of documentary films, usually detailing political, social, and counterculture events circa 1960s–1980s.
Emile de Antonio. Director: In the King of Prussia. The son of a wealthy physician, Emile de Antonio grew up in the tough coal-mining town of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and it made a deep impression on him.
Dec 20, 1989 · Emile de Antonio, a producer and director of anti-establishment documentary films, died after a heart attack Friday in front of his home on the Lower East Side. He was 70 years...
Jul 5, 2024 · Emile de Antonio was a filmmaker whose career from 1963 to 1989 was marked by a fierce dedication to political documentaries. Known for critiquing the power structures of Cold War America, de Antonio sharply dissected the mechanisms of the ruling elite while championing dissenters.
Nov 26, 2013 · De Antonio (1919–1989) had a checkered history ranging from Harvard to stints as a dock worker and a river barge captain. His entry into film was somewhat accidental. At a time when French directors were making a case for cinéma vérité, de Antonio was unabashed in revealing his progressive tendencies with no pretense of objectivity.
Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was a preeminent force in independent film and political documentary. The ten documentaries he made between 1963 and 1989 dissect the power structures governing Cold War America, critiquing the power elite and lionizing dissenters.
Inscribed within de Antonio’s hostility toward Artforum’s present concern with film are questions about film’s relation to painting and to other fine arts, to the tradition we know as modernist, the manner in which film solicits our particular critical and theoretical attention.
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Emile de Antonio (1919-1989) was a radical American documentary filmmaker during the Cold War years, a remarkably fertile period of both independent filmmaking and political dissent.
In his book on Emile de Antonio, scholar Randolph Lewis describes the filmmaker as “the foremost cinematic chronicler of cold war America and one of the most provocative film essayists of the century.”
Feb 25, 2019 · In February 1969 in Boston, Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig—a cutting documentary condemnation of U.S. policy in Vietnam— received its official theatrical premiere. By then, de Antonio had cemented a reputation as a rabble-rouser of the mid-century American establishment.
