CULTURETRAUMA
21:36 HD video 2016
CULTURETRAUMA is a found video and film assemblage
that addresses growing up in a culture that celebrates
violence, patriarchy and white supremacy and indoctrinates
the very young.
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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. NO/ZONES was created in collaboration with Environmental Impact Statement, which exists to amplify threats to public lands through creative projects and by connecting artists and arts audiences to watchdog environmental groups. 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.
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 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 explored 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 and continue to be impacted by police violence and intimidation.
The project involved the participation of dozens of Portland 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 on 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 (mostly created for elementary school-aged children) and scenes from Yonggary, a late 1960's
Korean "B" movie.
"B" movies became a prolific genre in post-atomic Japan as a way to transfer terror of the atomic bomb onto a non-human subject.
HITS OF SUNSHINE
35:56 HD video 2012
Hits of Sunshine was a site-specific multimedia music project featuring percussion composition, sound installation, fashion and video.
HoS 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 collected in the area. Treadway created original costumes for HoS and filmmaker Julie Perini projected site-specific video. This documentary was created over a one week period.
HELLO.
32:06 HD 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.
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 found 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 fathers, and assuming a queer analysis as culturally dominant.
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 was 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.
