an oldie but a goodie

my modes of film and video production final! My first short video in college!

One inch piece of tubular webbing (2004) featuring Jaro Lepic.... my muse in slacklining. This piece is a meditation on the mediative or recreational practice of slacklining.... the balance between walking on the earth and slightly above in metaphor to a boundary that film must also walk.... and more specifically documentary.

Light Play

playing with cameras and the little light that is allowed to pass through.... exploring a relationship... exploring the woods ....musical accompanyment by kaki king....

Celestial Umbilical Cord

So i've been heavy on intermedia this semester, with more time to explore my identity as an artist, and with concepts that fascinate me. This was my first collaborative installation, with Miriam and Mandy and ocurred in early November. By the end of the night, the whole class was suckling on the flavored water gloves, very fun and vulnerable...

To me, the dank but warm basement was an eerie safe space to be, almost womblike. This center column, didn’t replicate our ideas exactly with the video projection, but the moving blue light contrasted the hot yellow floodlight nicely. My feelings for the installation are of natural energy and healing. The gloves filled with flavored water encourage suckling, a return to an infant state, a return to mother nature, perhaps. There is an intense energy vibrating around the column and while it may not be obvious what it is and why you look at it, I think the room depends on it being there as a nurturing energy.

Undergrad Intermedia Open howse!

Sorry, for my lameness blogosphere. Being an undergrad, free time is of the essence. Videoblogging, unfortunately must come after critical reading and viewing among the other classes.

BUT... intermedia fortunately can be distributed throughout the vlogosphere as you will see here.

an installation from the open house last night at the international building on campus! imagine around 50 artists showing their work in the form of video, installation, sound, and performance all in a crowded space of a few floors! its the craziest party on campus, with free food and live nude. ;)

any who my installation is called Jellied Preserves and mediates on the preservation of time and life, while recognizing that decay can be beautiful as well. here is a short video of the space.

enjoy! comments welcome!

FLEX II

flex was a success! i just wanted to say that because it almost rhymes. but yes it is over. what a festival. i think Roger Beebe and the flexies put on a great festival! i had a great time overall hanging out with other filmmakers and being put up for a weeekend. at times maybe a little "festival blues" (as Katja called it) i think mostly being so much younger and less accomplished than the other filmmakers may have played a part in my comfort level.... BUT i learned so much and so inspired by many amzing films from all over the world... including 8 from iowa! go iowa! everyone was really impressed with the work coming out of iowa too... i also did my part in talking up our program.
filmmakers to keep the eyes open for:
Ben Russell
Peter Tscherkassy
Katja Straub
Louise Bourque
Lille Carre
Michael Robinson
oh jeez and many more!

fun gainesville things: alligator hunting, drive in mexican restaurants, Video Rodeo, The Hippodrome, The top, the 2nd street bakery, a downtown arts festival, an X rated Alice in Wonderland play(nudity and profanity)....
fun stuff

FLEX!

guess what blogosphere? i'm at the florida experimental film festival in gainsville FL this weekend! My film Lyrical Hermonies is screening on Sunday. So far so good! the programs began last night and go through sunday, and then its back to iowa for me. but while i'm here i'm going to 1. enjoy the weather 2. enjoy the amazing and inspirational films i see 3. enjoy the amazing company of fellow filmmakers (heck maybe learn something!)

From the first screening last night here are things that stood out to me:
films are a mix or mini dv and 16mm and super 8
experimental film + experimental music = ? is this a combination that is supposed to work?
i really liked Whirr and Harmony a lot... i noticed that i begin a film expecting it to be good and sometimes lie to myself to validate watching it that it actually was great. so i guess i could be more critical with myself to understand what i value in a film. note to self: learn from charlotte
lots of time lapse... always visually interesting... especially when a unique scene.
also all of the filmmakers here are awesome! i can't wait to get to know them all!
i'm staying at the hospitality coordinator's house, Lynn. which is super nice of her to put up the filmmakers.
this weekend.
will blog.

PG in 3

So this is a little piece of nostalgia and of what i know about my grandpa PG (paternal grandfather[ even though he is my mother's father???] ). I origionally made this for an intermedia class, so i was trying out some different stuff that i am not used to, like stop motion, and print transfers, hand painting, and most of the material in this video is dug up from my grandparents dungeony basement... where my grandpa also practiced dentistry. he was quite the famous dentist, i'm finding out... also ginkos were his horticultural passion...and they inhance memory. think about it.

take back the night

This is a short video of the annual Take Back the Night Protest in Iowa City on Thursday Oct. 19. All went well. This video makes me feel good about the night...however i had other feelings on the protest itself...read below. for mor info on take back the night check out.... take back the night history or the official website .

life as of now

welp, internet is hard for me to come across so i fear i only can post a few times a week... and hard to over weekends. anyhizzle, i made a short video of the annual take back the night protest march in iowa city this past thursday. i had never gone before, but had always heard of it from all of my feministfriends. all in all it was a good experience. a couple things erked me about the tradition... well i guess the main thing i noticed was that after the protest, i was super paranoid of every male i saw walking home that night, and i've never felt that way in iowa city. does awareness come with this price? does it have to? i cant help but think it is naive of me to even pretend to feel safe. but..honestly i have always felt safe in iowa city.

after the march and hearing women speak of how they have been abused.... instead of empowering me, it made me incredibly depressed, i wonder if this was the same for others.

Apocalypse?

I made this video in August, after feeling a lack of creativity this past summer and an intense desire to try rotoscoping. first rotoscope ever. and yes i went frame by frame... i think it ended up being over 400 frames. it took about two weeks working about 8 days at 6 hours a day... that's... what 48 hrs... well i guess that's not too bad. my friend Charlotte spent 96 hrs. on a 9 sec. rotoscope once. that's crazy!

morning glory

i just finished a deliscious breakfast at the Cottage, of tomato and spinach quiche. so i guess the spinach scare is over. that's good. the morning is dreary, wet, and cold. stupid me, i wore my chacos thinking i'd be ok. my feet are freezing.

this is my vlog. vlog vlog vlog vlog... it just rolls off the tongue. i am very excited to be starting this! Thanks to Jen Proctor, Aaron Valdez and Iowa City Microcinema for having an amazing weekend of video blogging events. attendence was low... unfortunately. but i think the people that were there did gain a lot of insight and inspiration from visiting vloggers Chuck Olsen and Chris Weagel.
So what does Video Blogging mean to me? well, #1 as a film student i see this as a valuable outlet and reason to keep practicing short form filmmaking, and especially experimenting... with no consequences. #2 to see the world that others present themselves in is very fascinating. #3 people like watching videos over reading to get their news information, well i do anyways... newspapers frustrate me.

so i will blog. and i will vlog. and it will be good.

mt. biking summer 2005

sports

here it is!

it is great!