Experimental Poetic Narrative Films
2024 FILMS
THE CANON
(Color. Silent. 1:00.) A deconstruction / reconstruction of images and language, filmed on a digital camera and iPhone. The choreographed images of the nuns walking together along the ruins in Rome, ruminate the words “fugue” and “canon” beyond their musical definitions. The structure and syllable limitations of the haiku add a vital thematic layer. Counting the beats of each word reflects my classical music training, as well as my ongoing interest in controlling and choreographing text in my films and photo collages.
Screenings include Delete TV / www.okto.tv Austria 2025
LAMENT OF A CERTAIN AGE
Color. Silent. 59 seconds. Canon digital camera. Experimental film. Appropriated photographed images from April 27, 1961 issue of Life Magazine, photographer Paul Schutzer.
As a first-generation American born just weeks after Caroline Kennedy, and at the same New York Hospital, this moment in time was my refugee family’s hope for safe haven, representing a new life with a young president.
(Included in the One Minute Volume Twelve series) Tour includes Storyhouse Chester, England, The Cube Microplex Bristol; Visualcontainer + [.BOX] Videoart Project Space, Milan, Italy; LÁ Art Museum Iceland; Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow; Contemporary Art Ruhr Media Art Fair Essen, Germany; The Birley Project Space, UK; The Auxilliary Middlesbrough, UK. Alternative Film Festival Nominee.
THE PLUNDER
A rumination on: Borders. Home. Possession.
Filmed on an iPhone throughout New York City. The live action was not staged or re-created. Images and sounds are intended to have an unpolished quality, reflecting the fluid motions of the city and to serve as a vital contrast to the very controlled placement of my poem. (Color. Sound. 02:51.)
Winner Best Director AltFF Alternative Film Festival, Canada; Honorable Mention Midwest Video Film Fest, USA.
FILMS BEFORE 2024
MEMOIR
The invisible aging woman/women who are seemingly or literally detached from their minds and bodies. The women’s gaze. A woman’s value. (Shot on iPhone. Color. Sound. No actors or re-creations were used. 02:34. 2020.)
Royal Society Of Television & Motion Picture Awards, India (Outstanding Achievement Award); Berlin Art Film Festival, Germany (Nominee); Alternative Film Festival, Canada (Best Director); Couch Film Festival, Canada (Best Experimental North America); Art Film Awards, Macedonia and London International Monthly Film Festival, England (Finalist); London Indie Short Festival of 24 Frames, England. (Official Selection).
Memoir Clip
SONG OF DEPARTURE
The words of my poem written years ago, revisted upon spying the Statue of Liberty in the distance. Revisited. Reflecting. (Shot on iPhone. Color. Sound. 1:09. 2022.)
Three Series of Silent Films
Unearthing years of poetry, and photographing images from decades-old publications, including Life Magazine and the 1963 World Book Encyclopedia, prompted making these words and images move beyond the page and onto the screen.
Exhibition of the Three Series
The films can be shown on monitors of any size and/or projected directly onto walls. Each series of films can be grouped together in a loop, or each film can stand alone and be seen on a loop.
AN OPERATIC LIFE OF A WOMAN
The Intention: Words only. Where the Words create their own images. Hearing the voices in her head.
Themes and Variations: The Agency of Women Speak. She is the Pomp in the Circumstance.
These 21 black and white, silent films are listed in alphabetical order below.
(In 2022, these 21 films were edited together and reframed into a new work with a running time: of 10:18.)
Abandon (01:59)
Aura of Privilege (01:20)
Buoyancy (01:40)
Columbus Circle (00:30)
Complaint Box (00:15)
Contradictions (01:30)
CLIP from Contradictions
Dinner (00:13)
Doppelganger (00:35)
Floating Piano (01:20)
Grudge (00:25)
Just Ignore Her (00:47)
Lightning Rod (00:23)
Operatic Life (00:23)
Overdue (00:16)
Pushing the Envelope (00:17)
Romantic School (00:51)
Sharing the Faith (00:32)
She Needs to Collect Her Thoughts (00:47)
She Wanted a Makeover (00:20)
Shrew Laryngitis (00:32)
The Speaking Tour (00:20)
IN OTHER WORDS, IN OTHER IMAGES – APPROPRIATE(D)
The Intention: Existing photographs and images re-photographed, captured and captioned.
Themes and Variations: Icon or not to Icon.
These 14 black and white, silent films are listed in alphabetical order below.
(In 2022, the films were edited together, and reframed into a new work with a total running time of 5:35.)
Cleopatra (00:48)
Couple Blurry (00:20)
Drifting Out (00:17)
Flawed (00:59)
Gary Harvey (01:47)
High Ground (00:33)
Hymn of the Happy Home (01:11)
Kitchen Floor (00:23)
Lawrence Of Arabia (00:21)
LBJ Wedding (00:21)
Tanks (00:14)
Unthinkable (00:21)
Where Did I Go (00:29)
White Men in Science 1 (00:21)
ADDENDUM OF WORDS
The Intention: Transferring poems and poetry lines from the page to the screen.
Themes and Variations: Silence. Reticence.
Five Silent Films
(In 2022, these five films were edited together and reframed into a new work with a total running time of 6:17.)
Collage 1 (01:50. Color)
Detective Loveless (00:20. B/W)
Dinosaur Diner (02:18. Color.)
“Scrappy Girl” (02:03. B/W)
Scrappy Girl Clip
“Sweet Young” (0:32) (B/W)
