| |
|
EDUCATION
|
1991-1993 School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago IL: M.F.A. Degree in Filmmaking
1985-1986 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, West Germany
1982-1983 Camberwell School of Art, London, England
1980-1984 Smith College, Northampton, MA: B.A. Degree in Art; Dean's
list 1980-81, 1983-84
|
|
AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
|
Filmmaking
Bronze
Award, Experimental Film and Video, for "Camelrama", Houston
Worldfest, Houston, TX, 2001
Honorable Mention, for "The Ebbing", Ann Arbor Film Festival,
Ann Arbor, MI, 1994
Pre-Screener’s Award, for "The Ebbing", Onion City
Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 1993
Settie Leehman Fatman Prize, for Music Composition for film "Oh
Et Al.", Smith College,
Northampton, MA, 1984
Photography
Top
40, LACDA International Juried Competition, for Photograph "
Blue Phone Texas Snow",
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art,
Los Angeles, CA, 2006
First Place, SAAC Juried Art Competition, for Photograph "Justin
Boot", El Dorado, AR, 2005
Grand Prize, Trofeo Nube de Plata, Photography Contest, Barcelona,
Spain, 1988
Scholarship
DAAD Stipendium
- Full scholarship for study at the Hochschule der Künste,
Berlin, Germany, 1985
Academic
The Reel Thing -
Above and Beyond Award from Dean Carole Brandt, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas TX, 2006
Dean's Prize for Excellence - Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, TX, 2005 |
|
|
|
FILMOGRAPHY with
SCREENINGS |
Short Films
"There Goes The View" – Experimental, 16mm. TRT 11:30
Min., 2006
Credits: Writer, Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor.
Adjudicated Screening:
2006 UFVA
Conference, Chapman University, Orange, CA
"The Dreaded Beard" – Narrative, 35mm B&W,
TRT 8 Min., 2005
Credits: Writer, Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor.
Screenings at festivals recognized by The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences as Academy Award qualifying:
2006 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor MI (5% acceptance rate)
2005 Hamptons International Film Festival, E. Hampton, NY
2005 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
Screenings rated as best US regional film festivals by Chris Gore's
Ultimate Film Festival Guide:
2006
Dead Center Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK
2006 Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota FL (5% acceptance rate)
2005 Sidewalk Moving Picture Festival, Birmingham, AL
Additional Adjudicated Screenings:
2005
Flicker Film Festival #24, Austin TX
2005 Deep Ellum Film Festival, Dallas TX
2005 Chicago International REEL Shorts Festival, Chicago IL
2005 Chick Flicks 4, Dallas, TX
2005 Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
2005 UFVA Conference, Chicago, IL
2005 Yale Women in Film juried film screening, Yale University,
New Haven, CT
Invitational Screenings:
2006 Echo
Park Film Centre, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by filmmaker Gregory
Schaefer.
2006 First Thursdays at Dean’s, Houston TX
2005 DamStuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“Small Gauge Blow-up” –
Documentary, Super-8 blown-up to 35mm, TRT 10 Min., 2001
Credits: Co-Director, Cinematographer, Editor.
Distributed through Video Aids to Film Preservation, through Folkstreams.net.
Screenings:
2001 American Moving Image
Archivist's Conference, Portland, OR
2001 Kodak Special Screening on the blow-up process, New York City,
NY
|
| |
"Camelrama"
– Experimental, Super-8 blown-up to 35mm, TRT 4 Min., 2001
Credits: Director, Cinematographer, Editor.
Screenings at festivals recognized by The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences as Academy Award qualifying:
2002 Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH
Additional Adjudicated Screenings:
2004 ChickFlicks juried film screening, Angelika Theater, Dallas,
TX
2004 See Williamsburg Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
"Bridges" - Experimental,
TRT 1 Min., Super-8, 1995
Credits: Director, Cinematographer.
Adjudicated Screening:
1996 Les Recontres du 8ème Type 5ème Festival International
de Cinéma Super 8, Tours, France
"Cowboy" - Experimental,
TRT 1 Min., 16mm and 35mm, 1995
Credits: Director, Cinematographer.
"The Ebbing" - Experimental,
TRT 9 Min., 16mm, 1993
Credits: Director, Cinematographer, Optical Printer, Editor.
Screenings at festivals recognized by The Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences as Academy Award qualifying:
1994 Ann Arbor Film Festival, Winners Night, Ann Arbor, MI (5% acceptance
rate)
Additional Adjudicated Screenings:
1993 New York Expo of Short Film and Video, New York, NY
1993 Onion City Film Festival, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago,
IL Touring Festival:
1995 Invisible Cinema Tour: Alberta College of Art and Design, Alberta,
Canada; 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA; Metro Cinema, Edmonton,
Canada; Cinemateque, Winnipeg, Canada; Calgary Society of Independent
Filmmakers, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Saskatchewan Filmpool Co-operative,
Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Invitational screenings:
1996 Experimentalfilme aus Chicago, Deutsches Filmmuseum, Frankfurt
am Main, Germany
1995 Mark Nugent's Optical Seizures, Edison Electric, Vancouver,
BC, Canada
1995 Navy Pier, Summer Screening Series, Chicago, IL
1995 X-Film Chicago, The International Cinema Museum, Chicago, IL
1995 X-Film Chicago, Lunar Cabaret, Chicago, IL
1994 Dialogs, Films by Carolyn Macartney, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago
IL
1994 The Film Night, Music Box Theater, Chicago, IL
1993 The Saskatchewan Filmpool Co-operative, Regina, Saskatchewan,
Canada
1993 Calgary Society of Independent Filmmakers, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
1993 Marie Archie Benefit Screening, Mary Archie Theater, Chicago,
IL
1993 Around the Coyote, Chicago Filmmakers Open Air screening, Chicago,
IL
1993 The Chemical Show, Outdoor film screening, Wicker Park, Chicago,
IL
Other Screenings:
1993 MFA Thesis Screening, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
1993 Chicago Student Film Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago,
IL
|
|
|
"Bodies"
- Experimental, 8 Min., 16mm, 1992
Credits: Director, Cinematographer, Optical Printer, Editor.
Screening:
1991 Rawstock, student film screening, School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"My Brother" - Experimental:
6 Min., Super 8, 1991.
Credits: Director, Cinematographer, Editor.
"Dust Bunnies and Paris Carpets" - Experimental,
20 Min., Super 8, 1990
Credits: Director, Cinematographer, Editor.
"Plastic Volume" - Experimental,
30 Min., Super-8, 1988.
Credits: Director, Cinematographer, Editor.
Screening/Exhibition:
1988 Live Film/Performance with Peter Crippen, Gallery SoToDo, Berlin,
W. Germany
"Oh Et Al." - Experimental,
4 Min., Regular 8, 1984.
Credits: Director, Cinematographer, Editor.
Screening:
1984 Composer's Concert, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Commercials, PSA's, Promos and Music Videos
"Take it Back" – Music
video for band Joint Method, TRT 4:28, super 8mm, 16mm, 35mm, 2006.
"Portraits" – PSA for
Dallas Women's Foundation, TRT 30 seconds, 35mm, 2006.
Credit: Director.
Adjudicated Screenings:
2006 Dallas Video Festival, Dallas TX
2006 Chick Flicks Film Festival, Dallas TX
”Suffer City Tattoos and Piercing”
– Two 30 second commercials, 16mm, 2006.
Credits: Writer, Director, Producer.
"Renegade Rides" – Promo for Adventure Horseback
Rides, 4.5 min., Mini DV, 2003.
Credits: Writer, Director, Producer, Videographer.
"Rodeo" - Spec. Spot for Wrangler Jeans, TRT 30 sec.,
35mm, 1998
Credits: Director, Cinematographer.
"Urban" - Spec. Spot for Bass Ale, TRT 30 sec., 16mm
and 35mm, 1998
Credits: Director, Cinematographer.
|
|
|
EXHIBITIONS |
Photography
2006 Bitscapes: The Digital Panorama, Group
show, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Top 40, LACDA International Juried Competition, Los Angeles
Center for Digital Art,
Los Angeles, CA
2005 Americas 2000 All Media Juried Competition, Minot, ND
2005 SAAC Juried Art Competition, El Dorado, AR
2004 Solo Photography Exhibit, "Portraits" at Dragon Fire
Yoga Studio, Dallas, TX
2002 Solo Photography Exhibit, "Berlin Portraits", Deutsches
Haus at New York University, New York, NY
2001 Three Person Photography Exhibit, Gun For Hire Post, New York,
NY
2000 Group Photography Exhibit, John Esty, New York, NY
1999 Solo Photography Exhibit, Grey Parrot Cafe, Brooklyn, NY
1989 Group Photography Exhibit, Centre Civic, Torre Llebata, Barcelona,
Spain
1984 Group Photography Exhibit, Smith College, Northampton, MA
Painting
and Drawing
1988 Group Painting Exhibit, Gallery
SoToDo, Berlin, W. Germany
1986 Freie Berliner Austellung, Berlin, W. Germany
1983 Solo Painting Exhibit, Smith College, Northampton, MA
1982 Student Art Exhibit, Smith College, Northampton, MA
1981 Student Art Exhibit, Smith College, Northampton, MA
|
| PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHIC
WORKS AND RELATED |
2004-present, my photographs of musician
James McMurtry appear on his official website
1993 Screen (Film Trade magazine), Chicago, IL
1990 Tip (city magazine), Berlin, W. Germany
1990 Diorama (photo and video magazine), Madrid, Spain
1989 Sounds (music magazine), London, England
1988 Anschlag (photo and prose book, limited edition of 50), Leipzig,
E. Germany
1984 The New Current (art and prose publication), Smith College, Northampton,
MA
Photographs have been purchased by corporate and private collections.
Photographs have been used for album covers/publicity for the following
bands/musicians:
Twang Bang (Chicago, IL), Nancy Lemmons
(Chicago, IL), Chris Lemmons (Chicago, IL), Tatsu Aoki (Chicago,
IL), Vivian Section (Chicago, IL), Crime and the City Solution (Sydney,
Australia), Reymo Park and the Chasm (Berlin, W. Germany), La Deutsche
Vita (East Berlin, E. Germany), FAT (Montreal, Canada) |
|
|
|
TEACHING EXPERIENCE |
2003-present Assistant
Professor - Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas,
TX. I teach undergraduate
beginning, intermediate and advanced film and video production courses,
covering all aspects of non-sync and sync-sound film and video production;
Graduate level advanced film production courses. In film production
classes, each student makes their own film in addition to working
together on group class projects. Additional classes: Lighting for
Film and Television - this is a hands on production class to examine
and practice the art of lighting; Advanced Film Seminar (informally
known as the "Get a Job" class) - students prepare themselves
for careers as filmmakers, enter their films in festivals and explore
opportunities in the film industry; Directed Studies - advise students
on their film projects undertaken outside of a specific course; Undergraduate
and Graduate academic advising; Graduate thesis advising.
2001-2003 Adjunct Instructor - School
of Visual Arts, New York, NY. First and second year undergraduate
film and video production courses, covering non-sync and sync sound
film and video production. Students are required to work in both
film and video and complete one project each per semester.
2001-2003 Thesis Advisor - School of
Visual Arts, New York, NY. Advise fourth year students on their
Thesis projects from conception through
completion.
1994 Teacher - Designed and taught
course on optical printing filmmaking at Chicago Filmmakers Film
Cooperative. Course included color
and light theory, motion picture film hand-processing, use and operation
of optical printer. Each student completed a 16mm film.
1989-1990 Teacher - English as a foreign
language, to Spanish professionals at Kings College School
of English, Barcelona, Spain.
|
|
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE |
1998-present Film
Director - Responsible for creating a specific vision for the
project. This covers all
aspects of the production
from conception to completion and includes: technical and aesthetic
approach, crew, locations, set design, actors, wardrobe, sound, etc.
I cast, rehears and direct the actors. I work with the Cinematographer
in planning the look of the film and how to achieve it, and with the
Producer in staying on budget and on schedule. After shooting I oversee
the edit, sound design and mix, through to the finished deliverable
product. See Filmography for credits.
1993-present Cinematographer - Responsible
for: all camera and lighting decisions, execution of
Director's
concept and vision, orchestration of the crew. I am extensively
involved throughout the duration of the project, including before
and after the shoot. Duties include: shot-list planning with the
Director; film stock and equipment testing; lighting and equipment
orders; location and equipment logistics and scheduling; camera
placement; lens choice and framing; directing the lighting; supervising
the film to tape transfer; supervising final print or tape output.
Second camera operator involves shooting footage additional to the
principal camera.
Selected Cinematography Credits
I have shot four, feature length narrative films including one on
35mm. One of these, a futuristic science fiction film entitled After
the Apocalypse, has played in festivals around the world, including
SXSW (South by Southwest), Los Angeles Film Festival, Calgary International
Film Festival, London International Film Festival, and Lausane International
Film Festival (Switzerland). "Billy 528", one of some
twenty-odd dramatic short films that I have shot, was purchased
by and broadcast on Showtime. |
|
|
Shooting documentaries has taken
me to many interesting countries including Finland, Turkey, Poland,
Nicaragua and Botswana; several of these documentaries have screened
in major American and European film festivals including Rotterdam
International Film Festival and Margaret Meade International Film
Festival, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Additionally,
I have done second camera work on other documentaries, including
two for renowned experimental filmmaker Barbara Hammer.
I have shot numerous music videos, for bands including: The Stills,
Solex, Girls Against Boys, Mudhoney and Veruca Salt. I have also
been a second camera operator on music videos featuring artists
such as David Bowie, 10,000 Maniacs, Goo Goo Dolls and Motley Crüe.
Clients for spots and promos for whom I have shot include DDB Needham
Worldwide, Sesame Street, MTV and VH1.
1999-2000 Optical Printer - Set-up and
operation of optical printing bench. Optical blow-ups and
reductions
of films; contact printing; layout.
1999 Assistant Lighting Designer -
"In the City" Exhibit, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Brooklyn,
NY. Created and executed site specific
lighting design.
1995, 1996 Production Supervisor - MTV
Animation project for Filmmaker Heather McAdams. Set-up
animation
stand, coordinated cell painting, helped shoot animation, conformed
negative.
1996-2001 Custom hand processor - Motion
picture film; color and black and white. Hand processing
film
gives it a unique look, used primarily as an effect for music videos,
etc..
1993-1995 Technician - Repair and maintenance
of the Oxberry Optical Printer for the School of the Art
Institute
of Chicago.
1993 Assistant Editor - Assisted Editor
Alan Ross for PBS Documentary film about Brazilian Wildlife.
Transferred
sound, organized and kept track of footage.
1991-1993 Assistant Technician - Film
Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Repair and
maintenance
of camera, editing and sound equipment for the film department.
|
| MEMBERSHIPS
|
UFVA (University Film and Video Association)
Women In Film Dallas
|
| LANGUAGES
|
Fluent German
Conversational Spanish
Basic French
Beginning Arabic |
|
|
|
