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A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

4. CREATIVE WORK

Media:1/2"  and Hi-8mm video, Super 8mm film, photography, graphic design,  Xerox, Macintosh computer.  Special interest in radical use of consumer technology.

One-Person Exhibitions  (** = invitational, honorarium)

            *August 1991.  MEN AGAIN: VERSION TWO, University Film and Video Association annual meeting, Oregon State Univ. (critical screening with maker present)
            June 1991, MEN AGAIN: VERSION TWO, Marxist Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society, U of Oregon
            Jan 1988, POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA, Committee on Latin America, Northwestern University
            **April 1987, "The Politics of Landscape," show of film, video, photography.  Chicago Filmmakers.
              Oct. 1986.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA.  Association of Iranian Democrats.  New World Resource Center, Chicago.
            **June 1986.  "Portraits from Nicaragua," photo exhibit with gallery installation of POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA (video). Hall of Walls gallery, Austin, Texas.
              May 1986, "POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA," Campus Committee on Latin America, Ohio State.
            **Nov. 1985 "POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA," video and photography, Art Media, Syracuse University.
              May 1985,  RISING EXPECTATIONS, film-in-progress, show for South Africa protest vigil, Northwestern
            Nov. 1984  "POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA" video and photography, Program on Communication and Development Studies, Northwestern.
            **Jan. 1982, show of recent films.  Chicago Filmmakers.
            **Feb. 1981, show of recent films.  Chicago Filmmakers.
              June 1980, show of recent films.  Logan Square Community Art Gallery, Chicago.
            **Apr. 1980, show of recent films.  Woodland Gardens, Milwaukee.
            **Mar. 1980, show of recent films.  Film Studies, Indiana University.
              June 1979.  THE TEN MILLION DOLLAR BASH  shown twice, Antioch College.

Group Exhibitions (*= curated)

            *Sept 1990.  AUGUST NIGHTS in “Around the Coyote,” [arts festival]  Chicago
            *April 1989.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA (exerpt) in "Looking at the Other,"  Gallery 2, Chicago.
            *Jan 1988.  TV MAN AT THE END OF THE WORLD'S FAIR in Video Says: New Expressions in Video Art.  Northwestern Univ.
            Aug 1987.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA in show with Julia Lesage.  Videonic Videotheque, Managua.
            Sept  1987.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA in show with Julia Lesage.  At Juventud Sandinista, sponsored by MINDRA (Agriculture Reform Ministry), Estelí, Nicaragua.
              Sept. 1986.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA in show with Julia Lesage.  Cinema Action.  London.
            *Sept. 1986.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA in show with Julia Lesage.  New Cinema Midlands Group.  Nottingham.
              Sept. 1986.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA in show with Julia Lesage.  Sheffield Esteli Society.  Sheffield.
            *June 1986.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA in show with Jeffrey Skoller.  Film Center, School of the Art Institute.  Chicago.
            *Oct. 1985  IT'S NOT MADE BY GREAT MEN (film) in Chicago show, Artist's Space, New York.
            *Mar. 1985  AUGUST NIGHTS (film) in Chicago Filmmakers Ten Year Retrospective Series
            *May 1980, PEDESTRIAN WAVELENGTH, in Chicago Filmmakers Show, The Funnel, Toronto.
            *Feb. 1980, show with JoAnn Elam.  Chicago Filmmakers.

Juried Festival

            Dec 1987.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA.  Semana Internacional de Cine: Certamen Internacional de Video.  Tereul (Spain).

Broadcast/Cablecast

            August 87.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA.  Manhattan Cable.  NYC.
            October 87.  POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA.  Portland Cable.  Oregon.

Videography

MEN AGAIN, VERSION 2,  VHS, color, NTSC, 8 min. 1990.

MEN AGAIN.  VHS, color, NTSC, 7 min. 1988.

POSTCARDS FROM NICARAGUA/POSTALES DE NICARAGUA LIBRE, 1/2" VHS to 3/4" TBC, color, NTSC/PAL, 50 min.  1985.

THE GIGANTONA SHOOT/FILMANDO LA GIGANTONA, 1/2 " VHS to 3/4" TBC, color, NTSC, 27 min. 1985.

ANGEL, 1/2" VHS to 3/4" TBC, color, NTSC, 11 min. 1985.

IN THE GARDEN, 1/2" VHS to 3/4" TBC, color, NTSC, 12 min. 1985.

TV MAN AT THE END OF THE WORLD'S FAIR, 1/2" VHS to 3/4" TBC, color, NTSC, 12 min. 1985.

Filmography

IT'S NOT MADE BY GREAT MEN, 16mm version, color/sound.  3 min.  Nov. 1985.

MEN, MEN, MEN, S8, color/sound, 8 min.  Jan. 1982.

STOPPING BY THE TOLLROAD; THE NO WALKING TRIP; FUN, S8, color/silent.  12 min.  August 1981.

IF YOU LOOK REALLY HARD..., S8, color/silent.  20 min.  June1981.

EVERYBODY'S TRANCE FILM, S8, b&w/color.  10 min.  Mar. 1981.

IT'S NOT MADE BY GREAT MEN, S8, color/sound.  3 min.  Jan.1981.

FRED BARNEY TAYLOR, A PORTRAIT, S8, color/silent.  3 min.  June 1980.

AT HOME IN LOGAN SQUARE (with Dan Curry), S8, color/sound.  20 min. June 1980.

AUGUST NIGHTS, S8, b&w/sound.  15 min.  May 1980.

INTERIORS, S8, b&w&color/silent.  12 min.  Apr. 1980.

THE JERRY LEWIS LABOR DAY TELETHON (with Liz Schillinger), S8, color/sound.  15 min.  Apr. 1980.

BACK PORCH, S8, b&w&color/sound.  18 min.  Mar. 1980.

THREE LYRIC FILMS:  SAPPHO'S BLUE DREAM, BEACH, MEAT, S8, color/silent.  12 min.  Jan. 1980.

THE BLIZZARD OF '79, S8, b&w&color/silent.  12 min. Oct. 1979.

DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT, S8, color/sound.  2-1/2 min.  Sept. 1979.

THE TEN MILLION DOLLAR BASH, S8, b&w&color/sound.  24 min.  June1979.

SHIRLEY AND BRUCE, S8, b&w&color/sound.  22 min.  May 1979.

SOMETIMES I ALMOST THINK I CAN SEE IT, S8, b&w&color/silent.  20 min.  May 1979.

PEDESTRIAN WAVELENGTH, S8, b&w&color/silent.  14 min.  Mar.1979.

BRIDGE, S8, color/silent.  8 min.  July 1978.

NAZI LEADER, S8, b&w&color/silent.  1 min.  May 1978.

Video Anthology

CONTINUOUS ENTERTAINMENT,  Various formats (D2, Beta SP, VHS) color, NTSC, 90 min. 1992.  Anthology of short works, originally in Super  8mm film.

Reviews of Work

Discussion of my video camera work for Julia Lesage's HOME LIFE in Lorraine Kenny, "An Interview with Julia Lesage," Afterimage 13:3  (Oct. 1985), 6-9.

Harvey Nosowitz, "A View of Chicago," Millennium Film Journal, no. 12, pp. 36-43.

Discussion of THE TEN MILLION DOLLAR BASH by Judith Mayne in Helen Fehevary, Claudia Lenssen, Mayne, "Interview: Women's Film Production and Reception," New German Critique no. 24-25, Fall-Winter 1981-82.

Article and interview by Adelaide Moorman on my film work and JoAnn Elam's.  Viewpoint  No. 5, Chicago Filmmakers Newsletter.  Reprints "Small Gauge Manifesto."  Spring 1980.

Camerawork

Video camera for Julia Lesage, location documentaries in Nicaragua, 1984, 87.   HOME LIFE, PARQUE WILFREDO VALENZUELA/WILFRED'S PARK, LA ESCUELA/THE SCHOOL, LAMENTO/LAMENT, MESAJEROS/TROUBADORS.

Additional camera for JoAnn Elam, EVERYDAY PEOPLE, 1980.

Other Work

            Portraits of Filmmakers (photography).    Spiral  no. 9.  Oct. 1986.
            "Acid Rain Sunset,"  Subculture Operation Subversion Mailart Exhibition, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, May 1986.
            Poster for January 1982 show reproduced in The Cinemanews, no. 81-86 (1982)  (Super 8 issue), p. 91.
            "Christmas Turkey in Lima, Peru," photo essay.  First Anniversary Group Show, Logan Square Community Art Gallery, Dec. 1980-Jan. 1981
            "A Memo from Chuck Kleinhans on Flag Burning,"  Shades  (Toronto) No. 7, Oct./Nov. 1979, p. 28.
            "Chinese Boxing," Second Annual "Wish You Were Here" Mail Art Exhibition, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, spring 1978.

Film/Video Performance

Interviewer/critic of featured video artist Annette Barbier, Image Union program, WTTW (PBS) Chicago, Spring 1994, various broadcasts.

LOOK ME OVER CLOSELY, Christopher Gaal, 1993 (video)

MARX: THE VIDEO, A POLITICS OF REVOLTING BODIES, Laura Kipnis, 1990 (video, title role)

STATE OF THE (VIDEO) ART:  A CONVERSATIONAL MOSAIC WITH CHUCK KLEINHANS, Meg Amato, 1989. (video)

LIVES OF THE ARTISTS, Fred Barney Taylor, 1982. (film/video)

ARE YOU LISTENING MR. EISENSTEIN?  Doug Eisenstark, 1981. (film)



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