Film Format: Digital File
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Letters From Vancouver
Letters from Vancouver (1973) comprise two films, made at the same time, that share a common interest in “the medium is the message” (McLuhan), and form a reflexive, self-referential enquiry into the film medium itself. Together, “the politics of perception” (33min)and “the framing of perception” (33min) form a meditation on our audio/visual creation, bearer of information and culture, meaning and representation. It is a medium with extraordinary powers, able to evoke the deepest feelings of love and loss, anger and fear, laughter and thoughtfulness, yet of great fragility, fading with time, precarious on a perforated strip of celluloid.
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They Looked at Me and I Smiled
Artists who use their bodies as their medium or canvas while existing in their natural environments. Are they performing? Do their performances end after the makeup is removed? Can a performance continue in an empty apartment instead of in front of an audience?
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Forties 87
A video reading of Jackson Mac Low’s “Forties 87, A Stable Person,” made for Counterpath Press in Denver.
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What’s Ours and What We Are
In “What’s Ours and What We Are,” images, motifs and words that originally served a particular political agenda are playfully manipulated to distort and re-contextualize their original status, satirically articulating the purpose of propaganda which is to ‘speak to’ and ultimately to persuade a spectator.
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Hear Me
A formal collage of various song bites that expresses feelings of anxiety and depression. Uses music and lyrics to describe struggles with mental health / finding hope. I collected lyrics for a couple months that I connected with and helped me understand and describe my struggles with mental health. Then I stitched them together in a poem of sorts. The poem as well as the imagery are jumpy and mimic what goes on in a spiral or panic attack (at least for me) as I move through a dark space and back toward light.
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Main Squeeze
A couple in an open relationship have their holiday slumber shattered by the unexpected arrival of a secondary partner, who is drunk and on an ill-conceived mission to establish her romantic dominance.
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Take Me To Prom
Featuring intimate, charming interviews with queer people ranging in age from 88 to 17, “Take Me To Prom” invites audiences to revisit an iconic adolescent milestone while telling a story of social change that spans more than 70 years. Image description: A smiling elderly person dressed in a white shirt and grey bowtie sits in a wheelchair, against a backdrop of frilled curtains. Rounds of sparkling light fall over the image.
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Futuro, un film griego-argentino
What comes from the high seas to the shores of the Atlantic, Pacific or Mediterranean could be plastic, radioactivity… or remains. One night, a woman became stranded in the Mediterranean. The statement she made can not be translated.
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Crowded
Crowded is a hand-drawn animation made by erasing and redrawing graphite. It depicts a shifting figure, made temporarily fixed in its form by variable contexts. Sometimes that context is a piece of drawing paper, a lover or a room. These changes and momentary consistencies explore how we remain single identities throughout internal and external changes. The erasure and redrawing contribute to the same inquiry. The disappearances and reappearance of the figure from frame to frame enable its continuity in animated form. It is through gaps in and reconfigurations of ourselves, that we remain a perceivable self over time. Crowded has…
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The Ritual of the Sex Magick Warriors
The Sex Magick Warriors are organizing, they reveal themselves to the city and risk it all to carry out an obscure objective. The colors pink and teal are the embodiment of Magick, Art and Sexuality and their use by the warriors -through empathy, telepathy and tactile care- spills the tea on their means for survival in these harsh urban environments. The ritual exposes the hardships of this army of lovers and reveals their sensual strategy for self preservation.
