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 WHITE PEOPLE on VACATION POSING WITH NATURE IN THE BACKGROUND
  2:00       Video assemblage using edited 16mm home movies          2021        
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    CARCERAL SALES EVENT
    Multi-Channel video installation     2020

    Commissioned by SF Camerawork for the exhibition Cell Signals, Jodi Darby’s          multi-screen video-work Carceral Sales Event brings together 1950s                      commercials, instructional video footage and images of prisons as they are
    fictitiously depicted in TV and film. Darby asks viewers to judge the degree to        which representation of prison life are abstracted. As the title suggests, Darby        proposes that we’ve been oversold on a system that is as obscured as it is              broken, and as cheap as it is abusive. - Pete Brook, Curator, Cell Signals



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​NEO | MYTHOS
Video-mapped projection   2019

NEO | MYTHOS is a collaboration between media artist Jodi Darby and the students of Open School East with projections by Nanda D'Agostino, Sarah  Turner and Hilary Tsai.
   
Using multimedia platforms; video, animation and projection mapping, students examined the concept of mythos and oral histories while challenging tropes and stereotypes to re-create their own mythologies. While learning videography, audio recording and basic film production techniques, students collaborated to                                                                                             create new worlds of supernatural beings and deities- creating a new lens                                                                                                   through which to reclaim identity.  

                                                                                         NEO | MYTHOS was generously funded by the Oregon Community Fund and the 
                                                                                         Juan Young Trust.
                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                    


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CHAVRUTA: A DRUMMER'S BAT MITZVAH
15:00   HD Video    2018

Chavruta: A Drummer's Bat Mitzvah follows drummer/ecologist Lisa Schonberg    and musician/writer/Torah scholar Alicia Jo Rabins as they trade drum lessons      for Torah study.

The project explores ritual, the examination of Goddess culture, the history
of women's drumming in the ancient Near East and spiritual leadership and        ecology while preparing Lisa for her adult Bat Mitzvah.



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   CULTURETRAUMA

   12:00   Assemblage film   2017

   Culturetrauma is a 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.
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   Awarded Best Essay Film at the 43rd Northwest Filmmakers Festival

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   PORTLAND EXPO CENTER-
​A HIDDEN HISTORY
   6:20 Video Assemblage  2016

   In 1942, the United States government imprisoned nearly 4,000                           Japanese Americans from Oregon and southwest Washington at the
   Pacific International Livestock Exposition Center, now known as the Portland         Expo Center.

   This video, commissioned by Oregon Humanities, explores the hidden history
   of the Expo Center through the stories of the people who were there.
   

    

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​      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 2,000 pieces of jewelry made of human hair.
      
        



       
       



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       INTO THE LIGHT

       3:55 Assemblage film 2016

       Music video for the title track of Marisa Anderson's Into the Light album.
        
        

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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.  Commissioned for the 2015 Debacle Fest, an event that showcases Pacific Northwest experimental music and film.












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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.

The images are of the liminal spaces that exist along these 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. 



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​      MY CERTAIN FATE

      7:47  HD video  2015
    
      My Certain Fate is a short video created for artist Roger Peet that                      visually deliberates the actions of his father, Terry Peet.

      Performing as his father, Peet reenacts the steps that his father 
took to              fake his own 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.
      
    



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       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.
       
         
   

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         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.
         


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​       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.


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​        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.    

                     
 


 
 


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        HELLO... THIS IS JANE    

        3:00       HD video   2013
 
        Judith Arcana is a JANE, a member of the feminist underground service
        that helped more than 11,000 women and girls get safe abortions
        in Chicago before the US Supreme Court ruled on 
Roe v. Wade in                          January of 1973.
              
    
                 

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​        MONSTER MOVIE  

        4:00   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.   
              

 
                 

                     

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​         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 
         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.

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​        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.
    
                    
             
                    
           
 


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    EVERY NOW AND THEN YOU WIN   
 
    6:14   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 by planting Redwood trees.
                
     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.
              
         



        
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           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



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          100 SUNS
   

          8:03    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            
              




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         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 LGBTQI folks.  
                   
          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-normalization
          of our forefathers and centering a culturally dominant queer analysis. 
 
                  

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​          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.                                                                                                 


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