Video Commission for West Hollywood's Moving Image Media Art Program. Featuring films by pioneering directors Alice Guy-Blache, Marion E. Wong, and Lotte Reiniger. On view at 9157 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA from October 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023.
Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber.
Video Commission for West Hollywood's Moving Image Media Art Program. Featuring films by pioneering directors Alice Guy-Blache, Marion E. Wong, and Lotte Reiniger. On view at 9157 Sunset Boulevard Los Angeles, CA from October 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023.
Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber.
A video quilt made from the pioneering film that Alice Guy-Blache shot in 1897 of Loie Fuller's Serpentine Dance, as performed by Mrs. Bob Walter. Painted, frame by frame, by the artist. Film footage courtesy of Gaumont Pathé Archives.
Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber.
Video installation commissioned by LACMA. On view at Screens at Stark Bar @ LACMA in 2020 and 2022. Watch here.
The piece was made from existing films, including Lotte Reiniger's 1922 "Cinderella," and Pat Ferrero's 1981 "Hearts and Hands" and 1988 "Quilts in Women's Lives," both in distribution by New Day Films.
Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber
Video installation commissioned by LACMA. On view at Screens at Stark Bar @ LACMA in 2020 and 2022. Watch here.
The piece was made from existing films, including Lotte Reiniger's 1922 "Cinderella," and Pat Ferrero's 1981 "Hearts and Hands" and 1988 "Quilts in Women's Lives," both in distribution by New Day Films.
Photo: Ian Byers-Gamber
This video connects formal histories of abstraction and women’s work with textiles to digital technology. For this piece, I transferred historical textile documentary films to video and edited footage of handcraft, film leader and film credits into 35 layers that form a triangle quilt in motion. I edited the video like it was a digital patchwork quilt: first I chose an overall pattern design, then I made each triangle one at a time, and then I put the triangles together into sequences, thinking about content, color, rhythm, shape, and positive/negative space. For the triangles containing film footage, I chose clips of women’s hands at work on a textile project. Displayed looping on an Ultra-high-definition monitor, the digital piece ruminates on materiality, tactility, pleasure, labor, and credit.
Exhibited at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles; The Othellos - Attikon Cultural Centre, Pafos, Greece, and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, GA, among others.
In the permanent collection of LACMA.