CHAVRUTA: A DRUMMER'S BAT MITZVAH
15:00 HD Video 2017
Chavruta follows drummer/ecologist Lisa Schonberg and musician/Torah teacher Alicia Jo Rabins. Chavruta follows Lisa and Alicia as they trade drum lessons for Torah lessons in a project that combines ritual, study and art, preparing for Lisa's adult bat mitzvah by exploring Sumerian Goddesses,
the history of women's drumming in the ancient Near East, female spiritual leadership, ecology and Torah.
CULTURETRAUMA
12:00 Assemblage film 2017
Diary style found footage survey of trauma experienced while growing up in 1970s and 1980s US death culture.
All footage appropriated from the Prelinger Archive.
Awarded Best Essay Film at the 43rd Northwest Filmmakers Festival
PORTLAND EXPO CENTER- A HIDDEN HISTORY
6:20 Video Assemblage 2016
In 1942, the United States government imprisoned 3,676 Japanese
Americans from Oregon and southwest Washington at the Pacific
International Livestock Exposition Center, now known as the Portland
Expo Center. This video, produced for Oregon Humanities, explores the hidden history of the Expo Center through the words of people who
were there.
LEILA"S HAIR MUSEUM
10:00 HD video 2016
Short documentary about Leila Cohoon, the owner and operator of Leila's
Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri. Leila's Hair Museum is the only
hair museum in the world, containing over 600 hair wreaths and over
2,000 pieces of jewelry made of human hair.
LEILA"S HAIR MUSEUM
10:00 HD video 2016
Short documentary about Leila Cohoon, the owner and operator of Leila's
Hair Museum in Independence, Missouri. Leila's Hair Museum is the only
hair museum in the world, containing over 600 hair wreaths and over
2,000 pieces of jewelry made of human hair.
INTO THE LIGHT
3:55 Assemblage film 2016
Created for the title track of Marisa Anderson's Into the Light album.
Chaos Kitchen Records
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PATTERNS OF MOVING JOY 8:00 SD video assemblage 2015 Assemblage of 1950 and 60's film capturing the drone of mechanical machinery. Created for the 2015 Debacle Fest, an event that showcases Pacific Northwest experimental music and film. NO/ZONES Photographs Along Portland's Urban Growth Boundary 2015 Since the 1980s, the Portland metropolitan area boundary has been expanded over three dozen times to accommodate housing, jobs and industry. This spring I traveled along the eastern edge of the boundary and took photographs of the area. These images are of the liminal spaces that exist along the boundaries. They reflect the newly created, ambiguous landscapes that exist at the intersection of conservation and development, natural processes and synthetic systems of control. ARRESTING POWER- Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon Produced by Jodi Darby, Julie Perini and Erin Yanke 83 minutes HD video 2015 Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon documents the history of conflict between the Portland police and community members throughout the past fifty years. The film features personal stories of resistance told by victims of police misconduct, the families of people who were killed by police, and members of Portland’s reform and abolition movements. Utilizing meditative footage taken at sites of police violence, experimental filmmaking techniques and archival newsreel, Arresting Power creates a space for understanding the impacts of violence and imagining a world without police. |
MY CERTAIN FATE
7:47 HD video 2015
Short video created for artist Roger Peet, which explores the story of Peet's
father's faked death in order to go AWOL from the British Air Force and fly
helicopters for the CIA's interventions in Congo in the 1960's.
The video was featured as part of an installation entitled 'Traps, Flows
and Echoes' at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon.
CONSTELLATION
1:33 HD video 2014
Sunset in the militarized and heavily surveilled Pajarita Wilderness. All audio and video recorded in the field during a Signal Fire Outpost
residency on the US/Mexico border.
MAN MOVIE
7:48 SD video assemblage 2014
This short movie began as an exercise in editing fast-paced sequences. I took cuts from action movies and sequenced them together based on the dramaturgy of their action- running, jumping, punching.
I then connected these shots into a single scene; a testosterone-fueled
exquisite corpse that challenged both my recall and my patience.
THE CELLULOID CURETTE
20:00 SD video assemblage 2013
A play on the 1995 documentary film The Celluloid Closet, which explores the history of Hollywood's portrayal of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender characters, The Celluloid Curette deals with the
contemporary motion picture industry's portrayal of abortion.
SAFE & SOUND? Artists Respond to Police Violence
58:00 HD video 2013
Safe & Sound? uses audio, video and photography to tell stories of
individuals whose lives have been impacted by police violence and
intimidation. The project involved the participation of dozens of
community members.
HELLO... THIS IS JANE
03:00 HD video 2013
Judith Arcana is a JANE, a member of the feminist underground service
that helped more than eleven thousand women and girls get safe
illegal abortions in Chicago before the US Supreme Court ruled on
Roe v. Wade in January of 1973.
She worked in the abortion service for two years and taught classes in
women's health and sexuality for the Chicago Women's Liberation
School.
MONSTER MOVIE
04:00 SD video assemblage 2013
Monster Movie is a mashup of archival film of the aftermath of
Hiroshima, 1940's and 1950's US anti-Japanese propaganda films
created for elementary school-aged children and scenes from
Yonggary, a late 1960's Korean "B" movie.
HITS OF SUNSHINE
35:56 HD video 2012
Hits of Sunshine was a site-specific multimedia music project
featuring experimental percussion composition, sound installation,
fashion design and video.
HITS took up residence at A-Z West in Joshua Tree, CA in October of
2012. Musicians Lisa Schonberg, Heather Treadway, Allan Wilson
and Tara Jane O'Neil created compositions for drums that featured
field recordings of the natural area. Treadway created original
costumes for HITS and filmmaker Julie Perini filmed and projected
site-specific video.
HELLO.
32:06 SD video 2012
Video artist Julie Perini and I engaged in a collaborative volley
where a single videotape was passed back and forth over a period
of several months.
We played with micro events in our lives, time, space, action and
reaction.
EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU WIN
06:14 HD video 2012
This collaborative shadow show and audio documentary explores one
person's attempt to deal with gentrification in their hometown of San
Francisco, California.
Every Now and Then You Win premiered at the STREETOPIA exhibition
at Luggage Store Gallery, 509 Cultural Center and in the Streets of
San Francisco. Audio recorded and edited by Erin Yanke.
GULF
12:00 SD video assemblage with HD video 2011
Gulf combines re-edited news coverage of the 1986 Space Shuttle
Challenger explosion and 8mm footage of 1950's home movies to
capture the split second intersection of hubris, pride, joy and grief.
Music by Marisa Anderson
GULF
12:00 SD video assemblage with HD video 2011
Gulf combines re-edited news coverage of the 1986 Space Shuttle
Challenger explosion and 8mm footage of 1950's home movies to
capture the split second intersection of hubris, pride, joy and grief.
Music by Marisa Anderson
100 SUNS
08:03 SD video assemblage 2011
100 Suns is comprised of declassified nuclear test films from Los
Alamos National Laboratories, Denver Research Institute, Kirkland Air
Force Base and Lawrence Livermore Labs as well as other archival
16mm footage. Music by Marisa Anderson
STONEWALL
17:48 SD video 2010
Stonewall is a response to a system of pubic education which
perpetuates the teachings of white supremacy, pro-colonialism,
Capitalism, US exceptionalism and the inevitability of war, and which
hides the historical contributions of women, people of color and
members of the queer community.
Borrowing the tactics used by the US system of popular education and
the religious right, Stonewall re|visions a famous historical event- the
American Civil War- and a historical figure- General Thomas
“Stonewall” Jackson- through a queer lens, challenging the hetero-
normalizing of our forefathers and assuming a culturally dominant
queer analysis.
GIFT TO WINTER
18:00 SD video 2010
Utilizing nearly a decade of archival footage, the film documents the
history of the Winter Solstice Puppet Collective, a Portland-based
group that creates and performs elaborate shadow puppet shows every
year on December 21st.
Inspired by the Saturnalia story, the group’s original vision is to
create a performance as a gift to the god Saturn; an offering that
would ensure the return of Spring. Since then, the performance has
become an inspiring and much-anticipated community event.
