ALMANAC, THE NATURAL WORLD in 'Kinds of Time' /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

New film:

Almanac, the Natural World, 2023, 22m20s, 4k, stereo.
A cell phone tower disguised as a palm tree. A wallpaper river. Artificial moss in a hospital. Almanac, the Natural World is a photo-roman on classification and plants.

On view as part of the group exhibition - Outer Voice: Kinds of Time - at Oregon Contemporary.

March 22 - April 7, 2024

Info here.

Screening - Place Matters: Indigenous land and water stewardship in a changing climate /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

I helped produce a film (Climate Smart Forestry with the Kalispel Indian Tribe) that is part of this event, organized in a partnership between ProPublica, OPB, Confluence, and Ecotrust.

7pm, Thursday, November 9
The Redd on Salmon Street

Four films showcasing the connections between Native peoples, place, and species unique to the Pacific Northwest.

A special evening of film and conversation that highlights the ways Native peoples throughout the Pacific Northwest maintain their relationship to place as well as the plant and animal life that is critical for cultural continuity.

Over the course of four short films and accompanying conversation, attendees will hear perspectives on the connections between forest and water, the struggle to bring lamprey back to their ancestral waterways, and the challenges faced by tribal fishers to continue their way of life on the Columbia.

The Films
Climate Smart Forestry with the Kalispel Indian Tribe
Produced by Ecotrust

People, Lamprey, and Cultural Ecology
Produced by Freshwaters Illustrated

Salmon People: A Native Fishing Family's Fight to Preserve a Way of Life
Produced in partnership by ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting

Salmon's Agreement
Produced by Confluence

The Panel
Moderator:
Kara Briggs (Sauk-Suiattle, Yakama descendent), Vice President of Tribal Lands & Waters Stewardship at Ecotrust
Panelists:
Randy Settler (Yakama), Tribal Fisher
Gabe Sheoships (Cayuse / Walla Walla), Executive Director at Friends of Tryon Creek

MAY 35 in Good Symptom - Launch Party in Seattle on September 19 /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

Good Symptom is a 12-part showcase of literary media art experiments that push the language of poetry, autobiography, manifestos, thought pieces and hybrid literary works off the page and onto the screen.

My video work, May 35, will be featured in the first installment, and a preview will be shown at the launch party:

Good Symptom Launch Party
September 19, 2023
Common Area Maintenance
2125 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
Tuesday evening
6:30pm Pacific Time
Free and open to the public.

Subscribe to Good Symptom here.

Borrufa available on Kanopy /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

Very happy to announce that Borrufa is now available to stream on Kanopy.

You can access Kanopy for free through most public libraries, or through academic institutions.

Thank you to Kanani, James-Michael, and Collective Eye Films for their distribution efforts.

Watch Borrufa here.

Still from Borrufa, courtesy of Patuá Films

Production photo by Vi Son Trinh

Production photo by Vi Son Trinh

MAY 35 screening at Experiments in Cinema /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

My short film MAY 35 will screen at the Experiments in Cinema festival (Albuquerque, NM) this year, as part five films from the Good Symptom showcase.

In-person at EIC:
Friday, April 21, 2023
12-1pm at Guild Cinema
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Online at EIC:
May 1-10, 2023
Free, on-demand.
Watch the showcase
Experiments in Cinema festival program

Thanks to M, Rana, Chelsea, Anne, Melinda, and EIC for sharing this work.

Still from MAY 35, courtesy of Patuá Films

Video release for Ecotrust and the Kalispel Tribe /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

We had the pleasure of helping Ecotrust produce this video, working with the Kalispel Tribe and the Kalispel Natural Resources Department in Northeastern Washington.

Read the blog post by Jessica Douglas and watch the video here.

Thanks to Ted Davee and Sam Hamilton from the production team, and to the kind folks at Ecotrust: Jessica Douglas, Stephanie Gutierrez, Megan Foucht, Heldáy de la Cruz, Sean Gutierrez.

MAY 35 in Good Symptom and Property of Opaqueness performance /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

Two updates:

My video piece MAY 35 will be included in an anthology, Good Symptom (presented by The 3rd Thing). Thanks to Rana, M, and Chelsea. Official release date is TBD - more information forthcoming.

On February 26, I’ll participate in a performance at Hoffman Gallery, in Portland. Choreographed by Takahiro Yamamoto, with fellow performer Emily Squires. The performance will take place in the gallery, in the context of an exhibition by Dru Donovan and Cara Tomlinson. Info.

Hoopa Tribal Forestry video /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

It’s been a pleasure working with the team at Ecotrust on a new video about Hoopa Tribal Forestry in Northern California.

Read about it and watch the video on Ecotrust’s blog.

Thanks to Ted Davee and Sam Hamilton for their work on the video.

We had previously worked with Ecotrust on another video, about mid-size farms in Washington state.

Still from Hoopa Tribal Forestry

APPROACHES at Eugene Contemporary Art /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

On Thursday, July 7, a short film that I made with Takahiro Yamamoto, APPROACHES, will be presented at Broadway Metro cinema in Eugene, OR. The film is part of Exuberance: Sound, Color, Light & Movement, curated by Julie Perini and presented by Eugene Contemporary Art. Thanks to Julie and Agnese Cebere for including our work in the program.

7pm, 7/7/2022.

Info and tickets here.

NOTHINGBEING Symposium – April 16, 2022 /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

I’ll be presenting a short film I made with Takahiro Yamamoto at the NOTHINGBEING Symposium on April 16.

Information on the symposium here and tickets here

Thanks to Sam Hamilton and Edward P. Davee for production support. Funded in part by PICA and the PNCA Faculty Development Fund.

Borrufa selected to the 16mm Harkat Film Festival in Mumbai /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

Thank you to the 16mm Harkat Film Festival (Mumbai, India) for selecting Borrufa for their festival. A celluloid film-only festival, Harkat is virtual this year.

Borrufa is scheduled to screen online on December 19, 2020.

For information and tickets: https://16mm.harkat.in/

BORRUFA PREMIERE AT PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

After many years, Borrufa will premiere tomorrow at the Portland International Film Festival. One of eight films that are finalists for the Future/Future competition, Borrufa screens on March 7 and March 12, at the Whitsell Auditorium, inside the Portland Art Museum.

Thank you to the hundreds of people, near and far, who have given time, ideas, resources, houses, food, equipment, criticism, encouragement, and belief to make this film possible.

Thank you to Portland Monthly for selecting Borrufa as one of their five Top Picks for PIFF2020, as well as for profiling me in their April issue.

Poster design by Heldáy de la Cruz

Poster design by Heldáy de la Cruz

Notes – Upcoming events /  by Roland Dahwen Wu

Screening of TRAVELER’S ODE
(music and words by Dao Strom; directed by Roland Dahwen; d.p. Edward Pack Davee)
at Winter Poetry Festival
5p, Sat Jan 11, 2020
PNCA
INFO

Visiting artist lecture – Roland Dahwen
at KSMoCA
10.20a, Thu Jan 23, 2020
KSMoCA
INFO

Screening of RIOS SUELTOS
(music video for Y La Bamba; co-directed by Luz Elena Mendoza and Roland Dahwen; d.p. Edward Pack Davee)
at Reel Music Film Festival’s NW Music Video Showcase
7p, Wed Feb 12, 2020
Jupiter Next
INFO

Performance of PROPERTY OF OPAQUENESS
(Takahiro Yamamoto’s show, with Rana San and Roland Dahwen)
at Center for Contemporary Art and Culture
7p, Thu, Mar 19, 2020
PNCA
INFO