Fragile
8.5 minutes | 2022 I 16mm
"Maybe I will cast a younger woman to perform me, the 'hockey mom' in the voiceover..." And so I did: six women a decade or more younger than I am, all artists I admire, speak a personal meditation on the early history of cinema, the anxiety of aging, and the woeful comedy of professional envy. 16mm footage of six “magic lantern” glass slides from the turn of the last century wryly evoke the Structural film tradition of anti-illusionist cinema and demystification.
"Hockey mom" performed by T.J Dedeaux-Norris, Lori Felker, Kelly Gallagher, Penny Lane, Jesse McLean and Courtney Stephens.
Screenings/Exhibitions:
Festival ECRÃ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
non-syntax Experimental Image Festival, Taipei
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO
Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Cambridge, MA
Malatesta Short Film Festival, Cesena, Italy
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle
Saigon Experimental Film Festival (Satellite Program)
Silver Dusk 5 @Whammy! Analog Media Echo Park, L.A.
Athens Int'l Film + Video Festival, Athens, OH
Experiments in Cinema Festival, Albuquerque, NM
Threshold to Threshold: Elemental Findings
@ Automata, Los Angeles, CA
Fisura, Festival Internacional de Cine y Video Experimental,
Museo Archivo de la Fotografía, Mexico City
Demina Art Laboratory, Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero, MX
Traverse Vidéo XXVI Int'l Encounters
Video installation,Chapel of the Carmelites, Toulouse FR
March 18 - April 2, 2023
Visible Evidence XXIX, Documentary Ecologies, Udine, IT
Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues
Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland CA