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2006
The End of Photography
This short film, shot on black and white super-8 film, is a lament for the fading away of film. The narrator lists all the implements involved in the making of analog photographs while shots of the pre-McMansion vernacular landscape in Los Angeles flash by.
It has been screened at the Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, The Netherlands; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, invitational screening; Angles Gallery, Santa Monica; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, screenings in Paris, Berlin and Madrid; the Kassel Film and Video Festival in Kassel, Germany; European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany and "Saison Video," Espace Croisé, Lille, France.
2008 Screenings:
Séance panorama contemporain, Bétonsalon, Paris
Galeria Virgil, Sao Paolo, Brazil
2007 Screenings:
Victoria, British Columbia
Berkeley, California
Houston, Texas
Dallas, Texas
2003
50 Ways to Set the Table
This documentary about
the annual tablesetting competition at the L.A. County Fair is a visit to a piece of Americana where the
pleasures of making meet the unbending rules of social class.
It has been screened in the Documentary Fortnight series at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, at Cinematexas in Austin, at the New York Underground Film Festival in New York City, at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas and at Angles
Gallery, Los Angeles.
2001
What We Think About
When We Think About Ships
This video installation was commissioned by LACMALab at
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The artists were
asked to create an installation that used an object from
the museum’s collection and to address the theme
of “seeing” in a way that would be appropriate
for both children and adults.
In a small room that houses a 19th century marine painting,
viewers look into viewing slits and see the same tape loop:
A sailor repeatedly falls on his face toward the camera,
clearing the screen for a succession of unexpected representations
of ships – an outline of a tugboat drawn in glue,
then set on fire; a dozen toy sailboats sinking out of
sight in a bathtub while emitting small cries of distress;
an ice sculpture of a sailing ship slowly melting, and
so on.
Exhibited at LACMALab at the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, November, 2001-August, 2002.
1999
My Getty Center
This tape chronicles the winter of 1997, when El Nino and
the Getty Center came to Los Angeles at the same time,
generating a few rainstorms, a billion dollar cultural
complex, and an avalanche of hype. It is a tape about the
talk that surrounds things – the media hype around
new museum buildings and the weather, and especially the
talk around art.
Awards:
Silver Award, Worldfest Houston 2000
Best of Festival, Berkeley Film and Video Festival
Other Screenings:
J. Paul Getty Museum, as part of “Departures: 11
Artists at the Getty”
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Impakt New Media
Festival, Utrecht, Holland; YYZ, Toronto; Rutgers University.
1997
Diary of a Midlife
Crisis
This is a serio-comic video diary about a middle-aged photographer
whose fear of moving the video camera is used as a comic
metaphor for her feeling of being creatively at a standstill.
The emotional climax comes when she executes her first
shaky pan. A meditation on art, aging, creativity and the
difference between stillness and motion.
Awards:
Silver Spire Award , San Francisco International Film Festival,
1998
Bronze award, Worldfest Houston 1998
Other Screenings:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Art in General,
New York;
Bonn Videonale, Bonn, Germany; Kassel Film and Video Fest,
Kassel, Germany;
Bandits- Mages Festival, Bourges, France; Film Arts Festival
of Independent Cinema, San Francisco; Atlanta Film and
Video Festival; Brisbane International Film Festival; L.A.
Freewaves Festival, Los Angeles. |
