Michael Pope is an award-winning, self-taught filmmaker/video artist born and raised in New York City.
His creative opus, the multi-media Film/Event “NEOVOXER”, won him a Tanne Award for Outstanding Achievement (2000). Fellow award recipients include artist Sanford Bigger featured at the 2002 Whitney Biennale and the Bessie and Brio award-winning dancer Arthur Avites.
Combining live musical performance and sound effects, tableau vivant, and installation elements to a feature-length experimental narrative, Neovoxer was acclaimed by the Boston Globe as “An unforgettable sensory experience. A must-see event” and has been referred to as “Surrealistic Lyricism” (Metalopolis) and “Nothing less than cataclysmic” (The Dig). With Neovoxer, Pope is the first American director to screen work by invitation at the Film Finale Plzen, (2004 Plzen, CZ).