Borrufa is now available through Collective Eye Films.
Colleges, Universities, Schools, and Libraries can find the film here.
Special thanks to Kanani Koster and James-Michael Boyer.
Still from BORRUFA (dir. Roland Dahwen, 2020)
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NOTHINGBEING Symposium – April 16, 2022 /
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 – ARENA – VIDEO AND BEYOND (CORTONA ON THE MOVE FESTIVAL) /
July 11 opening.
Cantonese translation and voiceover: Shao Way Wu
Italian translation: Valentina Scaramella
Curator: Liza Faktor
Supported by the Regional Arts & Culture Council
Short excerpt
Notes – Takahiro Yamamoto performance at Lumber Room /
Thank you to Takahiro Yamamoto for asking me to perform with him in his piece Property of Opaqueness at the lumber room on May 5, 2019.
Fotos from our rehearsal.
Notes – Conversation at the Cooley Gallery /
Thanks to Stephanie, Leo, and everyone who attended Monday’s conversation at the Cooley Gallery.
Notes – De-Canon photo exhibit closing reception /
We’re holding an informal closing reception for the De-Canon photography exhibit that has been installed in the library since May. The exhibit features photography by Intisar Abioto, Vi Son Trinh, Dao Strom, and myself.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
6.30pm
De-Canon Library @ Milepost 5
8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR
Notes – «Traveler's Ode» video in Poetry NW /
Poetry NW published Dao Strom’s video «Traveler’s Ode» this month.
Video credits:
Traveler's Ode
music & words: Dao Strom
director: Roland Dahwen
director of photography: Edward Pack Davee
sound recording & mixing: sidony o’neal, Dao Strom, Jim Han
mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering
with thanks to Kyle Macdonald
with project support from Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) & Creative Capital Foundation
filmed at Satsop Power Plant, Elma WA
video produced by Patuá Films
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Notes – videos in Amsterdam /
The FIELD THEORIES videos that I worked on for Samiya Bashir (with keyon gaskin) were recently part of keyon’s NASHA festival in Amsterdam. These are very special artists and I am fortunate to have contributed a small part to this.
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 – de-canon photography exhibit /
As part of de-canon's residency, I'll be showing work in a photography exhibit May 12 – July 28, 2018.
Photographs by Intisar Abioto, Vincent Trinh, Dao Strom, and myself.
Opening reception Saturday, May 12, 6–8pm
Artists' Milepost 8155 NE Oregon St, Portland OR
