These are based on personal experience, perceptions, and emotions.
I couldn’t figure out where to put some longer pieces so they are here.
Some were made for Deb Lewis’ Cinema Lab at UT-Austin.
Please let me know before you show any of these in public. You are welcome to look and comment.
A Place for Healing in Gaza, 2004, the Ahli Arab Hospital
News footage by Ashraff Amreetti and Zakaia Abu Harbid with photographs by Tom Hartwell, AP.
I am deeply saddened by the death of the producer, Reverend Ed Hartwell. With permission of Tom Hartwell
A Broken Clock Tells Time Twice a Day
Made while sorting possessions of family members who had died. A personal and experimental expression of common experience. Homemade media. Please play stereo.
Honorable Mention, Women in Film Film Festival
Timescraps
for Cinema Lab 14
10_14_23 Eclipse
At the San Marcos Wonder World Cave and Adventure Park, the October 14, 2023 annular eclipse. Part of the Lost River Film Festival.
Moon and Sun
Full moon defined by clouds; when I realized that the sun is a nuclear explosion.
Meadow
Protesters Stop the Vote
The scene at the Texas Capitol from the beginning of the yell until 12:01 when my batteries began to die. Protesters stopped the Texas Senate vote on a bill which would have denied reproductive rights and health care to thousands of working class, poor, and rural women across the state.
Objects in Conversation
for Cinema Lab 14
Loud and Proud
raúlrsalinas reads his poem at Resistencia Book Store in Austin, Texas 1/13/2007. The raúlrsalinas and the Poetry of Liberation project, with producer/director Laura Varela.
Lourdes Pérez 2 Songs
part of raúlrsalinas: 50 Years of Partial Freedom. Filmed by Rene Rentería
Cat Video test of class exercise — iPhone 4 hour project
Austin with Ayotzinapa Austin stands in solidarity with the 43 student disappearances in Ayotzinapa Mexico and demands justice. Local organizers included Gilberto Rivera, Alicia Perez, and Rene Renteria. Filmed at Resistencia Bookstore, the Mexican Consulate, and Santa Julia Catholic Church.
Exquisite Corpse international project. We passed along less than 2 minute videos from different continents and nations. Mine is about the February 15, 2018 Texas storm that killed hundreds. Coordinated by Cameron Quevedo.
Happy Birthday for a former student. filmed at Stevenson Preserve in south Austin with Thelma the lab/dachshund and music by J.P. Fraley (“Margaret’s Waltz” from Appalshop), flying solo and casual.