John Moore

Biography

Venezuelan filmmaker and designer John Moore emerged in the late 1970s within the vibrant Super-8 experimental film movement in Caracas, a scene that fostered some of the most formally adventurous works in Latin American cinema of the period. Trained as a graphic designer at the Instituto de Diseño Neumann (1972–1976), Moore brought a strong visual and typographic sensibility to his films, working with animation, painted imagery and rapid visual montage. His short Sensorial (1978) won Best Film at the Caracas Super-8 Film Festival, one of the key platforms for experimental cinema in the region. In Faces (1982), a one-minute animated film, Moore was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at th...