Resumé
see also : Commercial Resumé
Selected Solo Screenings
- Tzadik DVD Release Celebration, Anthology Film Archive, June 28, 2009
- Skolska 28 Gallery, Prague, March 2008
- KinoART, Brno, Czech Republic, May 2007
- “Manifesten 01” (poetry conference) Limoges, France, February 2007
- “Inner Worlds Outside” Whitechapel Gallery, London, May 2006
- “Zaklady Americke Avantgardy” Ponrepo, Prague, May 2006
- PAF Animation Festival, Olomouc, Czech Rep., October 2005
- Anthology Film Archives, June 2005
- California Institute of the Arts, November, 2004
- Roulette TV, ch 56/108 New York, Jan & April & October 2003
- SUNY Buffalo, October 2002
- School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 2002
- Mass. College of Art, March 2002
- Bela Belacs Studio, Budapest, June 2001
- Bio Konvikt, Prague, April, 2001
- Cinema de Balie, Amsterdam, March 2000
- SUNY Purchase, Nov 1999
- University of Binghamton, SUNY, Nov 1999
- California Institute of the Arts, Sept 1999
- Occidental College, Los Angeles, Sept 1999
- L.A. Film Forum, Sept 1999
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov 1998
- Chicago Filmmakers, Nov 1998
- Knitting Factory, Feb 1997, also March 1995
- Anthology Film Archives, NYC, 1997, also 1992, 1981
- Total Mobile Home, San Francisco, Nov 96
- Scratch Cinema, Paris, Mar 96
- Cinema Achtung, Grenoble, Mar 96
- Cinema Spoutnik, Geneva, Mar 96
- Alhambra, Marseilles, Mar 96
- Austria Film Coop, Vienna, Mar 96
- Arsenal, Berlin, Mar 96
- Berks Filmmakers, Reading, PA, Mar 96
- Rocky Mountain Film Center, Boulder, October 1995; also 1983
- Orgone Cinema, Pittsburgh, July 1995
- San Francisco Cinematheque, January, 1995; also 1979, 1982, 1983, 1986.
- Museum of Modern Art, CINEPROBE, April, 1994; also 1985
- Millennium, NYC, Dec. 1993; also 1983, 1981
- Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, 1990
- Collective for Living Cinema, NYC, 1984, 1988, 1990
- Los Angeles Film Forum, L.A.C.E. Gallery, 1989
- Obscur Gallery, Quebec, 1986
- Institute for North American Linguistic Studies, Barcelona, 1983
- Independent Film Oasis, LAICA Gallery, Los Angeles, 1982
- Corcoran Gallery, Washington, DC. 1981
Selected Group Screenings
2010
- Radical Jewish Culture, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire du Judaïsme, Paris, June-August 2010
2009
2008
- Leeds International Film Festival, Nov 2008
- Jihlava Documentary Festival, Czech Rep., October 2008
- Musica Etnica, MOFFOM, Museum of Music, Prague, May & Sept 2008
- San Francisco Film Festival, April 2008
- Febio-fest, Prague, March 2008
- Jefferson Presents, Pittsburgh, March 2008
- Nova sin Gallery, Prague, March 2008
- ArchFilm Matinee / Urbanitat & Asthetik: Cine/tecture, FilmCasino, Vienna, Feb 2008
- Rotterdam Film Fesrtival, January 2008
2007
- Artslut Videos: 1975-2006, Monkeytown, Williamsburg, Brooklyn Dec 2007
- Alternative of Alternatives, ATA, Galery, San Francisco, November 2007
- “Jewels and Gems from the Film-Makers Coop” Collective Unconscious, NYC. Nov 2007
- New York Film Festival “Views from the Avant Garde” October 2007
- Paris Strip Festival, October 2007
- “On the Collective or Living Cinema” Wilkinson Gallery, London, September 2007
- ResisDance, June 2007, Shedhalle, Zurich, curated by Elke aus dem Moore
- Lower East Side Film Festival, June 2007
- May Movie Mayhem, Proteus Gowanus Gallery, Brooklyn, May 2007, curated by Jeanne Liotta
- SFAI Film Salon “The Soft Escape”, San Francisco, May 2007
- “On the Collective for Living Cinema” Orchard Gallery, NYC April 2007
- Film & Electronica Night, Cornerstone Artists Cinema, Hive Collective, Liverpool Hope U, UK, Mar 2007
- CinE-Dance in America, Natl Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 2007, curated by Bruce Posner
- Rotterdam International Film Festival, February 2007
2006
- Urbanitat & Asthetik: Hoch Hinaus--Screening Manhattan, FilmCasino, Vienna, Oct, 2006
- Paris Splice Festival, June 2006
- Music on Film Film on Music (MOFFOM), Prague, October 2005 & October 2006
- Jefferson Presents, Pittsburgh, April & May 2006
2005
- “Shoot the Poem” Bowery Poetry Club, NYC June 5, 2005
- “Broca’s Aphasia, Disturbances of Language” The Phatory Gallery, NYC. Apr 2005
- Art plus DANCE Party, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Mar 21, 2005
- “Pan-Pot/Dusk to Dawn” The Phatory Gallery, NY Feb, 2005
- Dance on Camera Festival, New York, January 2005
2004
- “Time After Time”, argos Festival, Brussels, Nov. 2004
- “Moving Picture Poetics” S.F.Cinematheque, Nov, 2004
- “Synaesthesia”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, Oct-Nov 2004
- Tribeca Film Festival, May 2004
- Cleveland Museum of Art, April 2004
- Museum of Modern Art, NYC, March 2004
- Paris Underground Film Festival (PIUFF), October, 2003 , also Oct. 2004
2003
- California Sound/California Image, curated by Mark Webber, Barbicon/Lux, London, June, 2003
- “Site-Seeing Manhattan”, Initiative Architektur, Salzburg, April 2003
- Splice Festival, Carnegie-Mellon, Pittsburgh, April 2003
- “Belated Bohemia: Art & Identity in the East Village”, curated by Ed Halter, New School, April 2003
- 3rd St. Petersburg Int’l. Dance Film Festival, Mar 2003 (also, Museum of Cinema, Moscow)
- “Language is a virus…” Balagan, Boston. Mar 2003
- “Screen Words”, Slough Foundation, Philadelphia, Jan. 2003 ( HYPERLINK “http://slought.org/files/downloads/events/SF1134.pdf” http://slought.org/files/downloads/events/SF1134.pdf)
2002
- “40 Years in Focus” S.F.Cinematheque, March 2002
2000
- Whitney Museum of American Art, The American Century: Art & Culture 1900-2000, “The Cool World: Film & Video in America 1950-2000, part 2: The Unfixed Image 1970-2000”:Dec 9, 1999 “Practicing Eternity”, Dec 28 “Transit”, Jan 23, 2000 “Wolf Tones (Songs of a Wayfarer)”, Feb 5 “Vertigo”, Feb 6 “The Human Dress”.
- “Torched Songs” Ocularis at Galapagos, Brooklyn Jan 17, 2000
Before 2000
- “Shake the Nation: Bay Area Film 1940-1990”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1999
- European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, 1998, 1999
- Impakt, Utrecht, 1999
- Viper, Switzerland. 1999
- American Dance Festival “Dancing for the Camera” 96 tour
- New York Underground Film Festival, March 1996
- Films Charas, Aug 1995, also 1984, 1985, 1993
- 1994-95 FESTIVALS: Mannheim, Eye on Dance(NYC)(Silver Prize), Rotterdam, Black Maria tour (Director’s Award), Singapore, Cleveland, Image Forum (Tokyo & Osaka), Big Muddy (2nd Prize), Onion City, Films-on-a-Shoestring, Sinking Creek (Kodak Award), Conspiracies (NYC), Olympia, Latvia, Dance Screen (Lyon), Styrian Autumn (Graz, Austria), Dansevideo (Bergen, Norway), VIPER (Lucerne), Ljubljana, Grand prix Int’l. Video Danse (Paris), Berlin Videofest, FIPA (Nice), Video Dansa (Barcelona), S by SW (Austin), Cannes (short film mart), Video Formes (Clermont-Ferrand), Semaine Int’l. de Vidéo (Saint-Gervais Genève).
- “Face the Music and Dance”, Symphony Space, Feb 23, 1995
- “Burning in the Gate,”American Museum of the Moving Image,Jan&Feb’94
- “Off the Wall to Wall”, Symphony Space, March 1993
- The Asia Society, Feb 1993
- ALIVE TV (ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER), PBS, summer 1992
- First Festival of MIXOLOGY, Roulette Intermedium, March 1992
- Film & Video Umbrella Tour, Great Britain, 1991
- “120 Minutes,” MTV, summer 1990
- Lyrik & billeder, Festival 90, Odenses, Denmark
- IMAGE, Atlanta, GA, 1990
- Dance Theater Workshop, EYES WIDE OPEN, 1989
- WNYC-TV, EYE ON DANCE, 1989; rebroadcast 1991,1992,1993,1994
- Reel Time, P.S. 122, NYC, 1989, 1993
- “Independent America: New Film 1978-88,” Amer. Mus. of the Moving Image, Astoria, NY, 1988
- Performing Language Conference, Binghamton, NY, 1988
- The Kitchen, NYC, 1987,
- Thalia Soho, NYC, 1987
- Museum of Modern Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” NYC, 1987
- “New York New Films,” Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
- Infermental III (international video magazine), Hungary, 1984
- Pompidou Center, Paris, 1984; Arsenal, Berlin, 1984, 1991
- 2nd London Avant-Garde Film Festival, 1979
- Artists Space, NYC, 1978
- Eye Music, San Francisco, 1976
Collections
- Museum of Modern Art, NYC
- New York Public Library, Donnell Media Center
- Performing Arts Library, Lincoln Center
- Archives du Film Experimental d’Avignon
- Arsenal, Berlin
- Rocky Mountain Film Center, Univ. of Colorado
- California Institute of the Arts
- San Francisco Art Institute
- University of Binghamton, SUNY
- SUNY Buffalo
- University of Pennsylvania
- Bard College
- Pacific Film Archive
- Anthology Film Archives
Fellowships and Grants
- John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, 2009
- MacDowell Colony, artist residencies 1996 & 1997 & 2001
- Jerome Foundation, film production, 1996
- New York Foundation for the Arts, emerging forms, 1995
- National Endowment for the Arts, dance film production (with Sally Silvers), 1992
- New York State Council on the Arts, film distribution, 1987
- New York State Council on the Arts, film production, 1985
- National Endowment for the Arts, film production, 1983
Curator
- 2006-2009 Visiting Filmmaker series, Skolska 28 Gallery, Prague (funded by Trust for Mutual Understanding)
- 2005-2008 Classics of American Avant-Garde, Ponrepo, Nat’l Film Archive, Prague
- 1988-1999 Segue Performance Space, NYC (funded by NYSCA and Andy Warhol Foundation)
- 1986 Hi-Fi Film Festival, Roulette Intermedium, NYC
- 1983 New New York Films, Würzburg Film Festival
- 1983 Idiolects Benefits, Collective for Living Cinema, NYC
- 1981 West Coast Survey, Anthology Film Archives, NYC
- 1980-86 Different Every Viewing, O-P Screen, NYC
- 1979 Last Tuesday (film, poetry, & jazz), Millennium, NYC
- 1975-77 Free-Films-Twice-A-Week, San Francisco Art Institute
- 1973-74 Apocalyptic Film Festival, Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, VA
Teaching
- Visiting Professor, FAMU, Film Academy Prague, Fall 2005-Spring 2009
- Visiting Professor, San Francisco Art Institute, Fall 1996
- Adjunct Professor, The Pratt Institute, Spring 1995-1997
- Bard College, negative-cutting workshops 1994-5
- Collective for Living Cinema,, beginning filmmaking workshops 1990-92
Other
- Selected Films 1977-2008 release on DVD by Tzadik (www.tzadik.com)
- Restoration of Money and blow-up to 35mm by Anthology Film Archives with funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts
- Restoration of Porter Springs 3 and Kino Da! by Pacific Film Archive
- Close Listening interview, Jan 2008
- Penn Sound streaming video page
- “Studio 360” interview, WNYC (syndicated nationally on NPR), May 2003
- Making Money (Roof Books, NY, 1986), artist book
- 1977-81 Editor, The Cinemanews, West Coast avant-garde film journal (documented in Scott MacDonald, CANYON CINEMA, University of California Press: 2007)
- 1985-88 Board of Directors, Film-Makers Cooperative, NYC
- 1976-78 President & founding Board member, Foundation for Art in Cinema, San Francisco
- Executive Director, The Segue Foundation, 1985-92.
- President, Hips Road, 1992.
- Developer, 303 East 8th St. HDFC, only successful Manhattan artist housing project in the 80s.
Education
- M.F.A. (filmmaking), 1978, San Francisco Art Institute
- B.A. (English), 1970, Washington & Lee University
