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Healing Wounds: American Communion
in progress from 2012
HD, 16 mm, DSLR, archival materials
Healing Wounds: American Communion explores PTSD and its impact on American combat veterans from Vietnam to Afghanistan
Bury My Gold in Earth
2006, 20 minutes, 16mm
Intimate documentary with my mother, a cherry farm widow from Northern Michigan. Using gently intense aesthetics, the film works through memory and ideas: farming, work, loss, and the desire to look.
Who Killed Maggie
2008, 20 minutes, HDV
This film traces the history of land tenancy, tribal rights and the privatization of resources in Ghana.
Made in collaboration with the Ada tribe in Bonikorpey, Ghana
The Saint Inside of You
1999, 16 minutes, 16 mm
A delicately crafted portrait of women’s sensuality blending classical and experimental techniques,
The Saint Inside of You explores the depths of intimacy, violence and resilience through the perspectives of three reflective women. (Jen Proctor, Cinematexas)
The Strange and the Charm
1998, 8 minutes, 16 mm
This film is saturated with both image and voice, exploring the relationship between science--gravity, magnetism, the physics of water--and the body. Memory and metaphor join the two.
The Voluptuous Slug
2013 2 min 20 secs Digital Video
Dog vs banana slug.
Glass of Water in Kenya
2005, 8 minutes, 16mm
Water has major political implications in Kenya. In this short film, often presented as an installation, several ways of looking at the same glass are explored.
Smithsonian research Fellow: Oscar P
One of a suite of videos developed to promote the Academic Programs at STRI (Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute). The target audience is potential Graduate students and Post Doctoral Fellows, so it is "Peer to Peer" science.
The Fellows were instructed to speak as though they were talking to a scientist not in their direct field.
We Continue:Haudenosaunee Voices
We Continue: Contemporary Voices of the Haudenosaunee. 2004, 82 minutes,
Collaborative, community-based work based on the history and contemporary concerns of the Upstate New York Native American population. Created by a college class in collaboration with Haudenosaunee members.
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