Andrew Noren

Andrew Noren was born 1943 in Santa Fe, New Mexico and grew up in Southern California.

His first work, A Change of Heart, was a narrative feature film inspired by Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless.

Inspired by the Lumière brothers, his film The New York Miseries was a collection of three-minute takes documenting his own life.

[3] In 1972 Noren began working at the Sherman Grinberg Film Library as a researcher and licensing agent for archived stock footage and newsreels.

[1] In 2023, The Lighted Field was inducted into the National Film Registry for its cultural and historical importance.