My new documentary INDELIBLE LALITA will have its Providence premiere on Monday, October 15 at 7pm at the Rhode Island School of Design Auditorium at 17 Canal Street. I am teaching Intermediate Filmmaking at RISD this year, and am excited by the opportunity to show my work to my new students and the Providence community.
MY LOUISIANA LOVE on the Road
Sharon Linezo Hong's documentary MY LOUISIANA LOVE, which I edited and co-produced, is making the rounds. Here are the upcoming screenings:
September 11- November 25, 2012 FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, PRAGUE, Czech Republic. Continuously looped Daily screenings
September 29, 2012 Crested Butte Film Festival, Crested Butte, CO, 3:00 pm Saturday.
October 21, 2012 ImagineNative Film + Art Festival, Toronto, Canada
November 30, 2012 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
December 6, 8 2012 National Museum of American Indian, New York, NY
September 11- November 25, 2012 FUTURA Centre for Contemporary Art, PRAGUE, Czech Republic. Continuously looped Daily screenings
September 29, 2012 Crested Butte Film Festival, Crested Butte, CO, 3:00 pm Saturday.
October 21, 2012 ImagineNative Film + Art Festival, Toronto, Canada
November 30, 2012 New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
December 6, 8 2012 National Museum of American Indian, New York, NY
Sparc! the Artmobile
On one of those 95+ degree days last month, I traveled with Massachusetts College of Art and Design's ArtMobile to Brigham Circle, where they set up a tent at the local farmer's market. Within minutes, community members were stopping by to do some printmaking - despite the burning heat. Art mobile director Ekua Holmes and two MassArt students helped people with their art and chatted about the neighborhood.
The Artmobile seems like a great program, bringing art and design to the people! And the van itself, sparc!, is pretty cool - the beautiful wrap was designed by MassArt student Mariah Siegmann
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HDSLRs in Maine...
I had a great time teaching Storytelling with Canon HDSLRs at the Maine Media Workshops last week. It was an intense course, with just four students working all day and night in that beautiful setting. After overcoming the challenges of doing verite documentary work on HDSLRs - audio issues, stability, shot length, etc. - we got down to the deep questions of what makes a story resonate in film. The students cranked out a 6-mninute film (Loveaholic, above) in just 48 hours. It profiles Deb Derecktor, who is counting down the days to her 50th birthday after finally overcoming her "love addiction."
MY LOUISIANA LOVE at the Smithsonian
Our film My Louisiana Love is showing every day July 22-31 at 3:30 at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC as their "July daily film." Take a look if you're in the area, and let us know what you think!
Artward Bound turns 1
The Artward Bound program at Massachusetts College of Art and Design celebrated its first complete year on Tuesday with a gathering of students, families, teachers, and funders.
The program offers Boston students in grades 8-12 a chance to dive into art while receiving academic support throughout their high school careers. The goal is to hep students gain admission to and succeed in college art programs.
At the gathering, they showed a video we produced, which highlighted a great project the students did this spring, creating a Field Guide to the Fens. Congratulations Artward Bound!
BREAKFAST piece at Exclamation Point! 10
Please join us for two evenings of film-inspired works at Fort Point Theatre Channel July 6 & 7 at 8pm. My video sculpture BREAKFAST will be installed as part of the event. I filmed one minute of my family's breakfast for an entire year, and cut together 5 seconds from each day. The resulting half hour of fleeting memories will be projected onto a sheet of mylar hanging from the gallery ceiling. Check it out, along with the work of several talented Fort Point artists!