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Notes – Dao Strom featured on OPB /
Dao Strom's work is featured on OPB's Oregon Art Beat, including a few videos that she and I worked on together.
Notes – with Takahiro Yamamoto for 'ICONIC' show /
Takahiro Yamamoto and I created a video for last week's ICONIC show – a fundraiser for Linda Austin's Performance Works Northwest. INFO
Notes – «MAY 35» at Northwest Filmmakers' Festival /
As part of NW Film Center's partnership with Kodak, I created this short film that will be shown at the Northwest Filmmakers' Festival, November 1 – 5, 2017.
«MAY 35»
2.5 mins. 8mm. 2017.
Notes – «There are no birds in the nests of yesterday» /
Last week in Seattle, I had the pleasure of speaking to three classes about my very first video work: «Ya no hay pájaros en los nidos de ayer» («There are no birds in the nests of yesterday»). Special thanks to Michael Harper for bringing me to visit his classes and screen the film.
Notes - HAFT-SEEN @ EPALF and Whitsell Auditorium /
HAFT-SEEN screened twice at EPALF (East Portland Arts & Literary Festival) on September 23rd.
Then the Northwest Film Center screened HAFT-SEEN at the Whitsell Auditorium, inside the Portland Art Museum on September 26th.
Thank you to everyone who attended, who contributed to the film, and who made these events possible.
Notes - HAFT-SEEN and FIELD THEORIES at NW Film - Sept. 26 /
A long-term dream I've had is coming true: we're having a screening at the NW Film Center's Whitsell Auditorium, inside the Portland Art Museum. LINK TO INFO
The night will include:
Haft-Seen by Stacey Tran, Jonathan Raissi, and myself
Field Theories by Samiya Bashir, keyon gaskin, and myself
Sight by Kalimah Abioto
Many thanks to everyone who made this possible.
Notes - TBA Festival performance - September 12 /
I have the tremendous honor to present at PICA's TBA Festival this year. With Samiya Bashir, Shayla Lawson, Dao Strom and Ronaldo V. Wilson, we will be creating a multimedia performance – music, sound, text, film. September 12, 2017 from 6:30 - 7:30pm at PICA's NE Hancock location.
LINK TO PORTLAND MONTHLY COVERAGE