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
Roland Dahwen
ALMANAC, THE NATURAL WORLD in 'Kinds of Time' /
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
MAY 35 in Good Symptom /
«MAY 35» (dir. Roland Dahwen) is part of the December release from Good Symptom (Vol.4), along with «Disturbing the Forgetting», a curatorial essay by Rana San, and two other video works: «Keje» by Fatma Belkis, and «femmes» by Maria Shuvanova.
Watch and subscribe here.
Screening - Place Matters: Indigenous land and water stewardship in a changing climate /
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
Slow music for organs and voice - Thursday, October 5 /
Slow music for organs and voice by Sam Tam Ham, with Vo Vo and Roland Dahwen
Thursday, October 5, 7p
Oregon Contemporary
MAY 35 in Good Symptom - Launch Party in Seattle on September 19 /
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 /
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 /
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
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.
Notes – Upcoming events /
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
Notes – Property of Opaqueness /
Thank you to Takahiro Yamamoto for including me in his performance Property of Opaqueness, made possible by the Henry Art Gallery and performed at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, WA. Thanks to all the staff of the Henry, Velocity, Nina, Ian, Erin, Rana, and Taka.
Notes – FIVAC video art festival in Cuba /
Thank you to the organizers of the Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camagüey (FIVAC) for including my work in their festival April 22-29, 2019. Thank you also to Hector Remedios for the initial encouragement. And special thanks to Stephanie Snyder and the Cooley Gallery for their generous support.
Notes – Conversation at the Cooley Gallery /
Thanks to Stephanie, Leo, and everyone who attended Monday’s conversation at the Cooley Gallery.
Notes – upcoming events /
A few upcoming events:
I'll be showing a short video as part of claire berrera's performance at New Expressive Works, June 15, 16, and 17.
Also, I'm giving a workshop as part of Home school at the Cooley Gallery. June 23.
Special thanks to claire, Stephanie, and manny for these opportunities.
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 – screening @ S1 /
On Thursday, April 5, at S1, I'll be screening some new work, WE ARE ALL THE PRODUCTION LINE (part V), as well as an except from HAFT-SEEN.
Part of an event celebrating Stacey Tran's new book SOAP FOR THE DOGS.
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.
Notes – «Field Theories» featured in Cascadia Magazine /
Three poems from Samiya Bashir are featured in Cascadia Magazine, along with the video we made together with keyon gaskin, and several still frames from the six «Field Theories» videos.
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.
