New video release:
Breaking Point: Tribal Forestry Today
Made for Ecotrust and Intertribal Timber Council.
Watch the video here
Learn about the state of Tribal Forestry through the IFMAT report here
Patua Films
Borrufa available on Kanopy /
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
Hoopa Tribal Forestry video /
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 /
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.
BORRUFA PREMIERE AT PORTLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL /
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
Notes – Night Lights at RACC on December 6, 2018 /
Thank you to everyone who attended yesterday’s NIGHT LIGHTS event at Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC). Special thanks to William, Ella, and everyone who helped set up and take down the altars.
Three Moons/Tres Lunas/3つの月
How the moon speaks through the dark—
carving the shores of this world!
Tonight we honor and celebrate three brilliant and beautiful people who quietly and powerfully influence the world in their own ways: Amanda Consuelo García, Rikuku Heshiki, and Kazumi Heshiki. As elders, they are steeped in life’s riches; they are portals to lost places and times, carriers of rarest cargo, bearers of songs and stories that hold the mysteries of life, death and everything between.
Our hope is to bring you into proximity with these people. To shine their light on this cold December eve because it is a warm light and beautiful light.
Our hope is remember better how to be present with our loved ones. How to listen and receive. How to look up to the moon. For we cannot know all the mysteries of the moon, so vastly far away, but we can bask in its light and let its questions reach us.
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This installation is a continuation of work that Roland Dahwen & Stephanie Adams-Santos have been doing to share their ongoing work around poetry, memory, and honoring our elders.
Notes – Dao Strom music video at Satsop Nuclear Power Plant /
Last week, we filmed a music video for Dao Strom at the Satsop Nuclear Power Plant in Washington state. Director of photography: Edward P. Davee. Sound recordist and engineer: sidony o'neal. Music and producer: Dao Strom. Very special thanks to Kyle Macdonald.
Filmed with the Arri Alexa and Ursa Mini.
Notes – Oregon Media Arts Fellowship /
I'm grateful to receive the Oregon Media Arts Fellowship for 2018. On June 10, from 1-3pm, there will be a presentation of the four recipients and our past and future work at the Whitsell Auditorium. The fellowship I received will offset production costs for our forthcoming film Borrufa. Many thanks to the NW Film Center, Ben Popp, Oregon Arts Commission, and the Oregon Community Foundation for supporting our work.
Notes – new Patuá Films website /
Our production house, Patuá Films, now has a new website: patuafilms.com
Notes – «Ojos del Sol» in Portland Music Video Festival /
Y La Bamba's «Ojos del Sol» music video, made with Luz Elena Mendoza and a bunch of generous and talented folks, has been selected for the Portland Music Video Festival on March 7th at the Hollywood Theatre. Luz and I will do a Q&A after the screening. The festival starts at 7:30pm.
