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I have a brand new video, which I shot years ago and recently finished. It's called "This One Time in Paris"and it will be screening for the first time at the Philadelphia Film Festival on Saturday March 28th at the International House at 9:30pm. Unfortunately I will be out of town but if you're in L.A. we can hang out at the New Image Gallery for "American Realities" a new art show by Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Clare E. Rojas, and Lydia Fong.
GET TICKETS to the screening at the Philadelphia Film Festival: HERE
If you're around the Philadelphia Film Festival on Saturday April 4th, I will be on a panel discussion with several other Philadelphia filmmakers at DIVE in the Curtis Building at 601 Walnut St. at 4:00pm.
I just did a promo spot for the Greater Philadelphia Department of Tourism and Marketing Corporation for their Philly LOVE campaign. The concept I pitched involved assembling a huge group make-out session in LOVE Park. A public call was put out and we were lucky enough to get an amazing group of people! Thanks so much to everyone who came and stood around for four hours making-out, especially Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross! Special thanks to all my friends who helped out especially: Kendra Gaeta and Lime Projects, Rose Luardo, Mike Withers, Chris Cottone, Karl Beyer, Dave Dunn, and Q.
Special thanks also goes out to the amazing Anna Biller who composed the song, which was originally written for her feature film, VIVA!
The Padlock Gallery celebrated it's five year anniversary on Saturday February 7, 2009. The opening featured artwork from over 30 artists who have shown at the gallery over the years, and featured special performances by Johnny "Corndawg" Fritz and ATMJ. Co-founder Molly McIntyre even flew in from Oakland for the festivities! Special thanks to Molly McIntyre, Mark Price, Alina Josan, Mike Fleming, and Aryon Hoselton (he made the cakes).
The International House will screening the Philly premiere of "Beautiful Losers", a new documentary by Aaron Rose (of ANP Quarterly and Alleged Gallery). The film features artists such as: Margaret Kilgallen, ESPO, Ed Templeton, Harmony Korine, Chris Johanson, Barry McGee, Shepard Fairey, and a bunch more.
The film's cinematographer Tobin Yelland will be in attendance to answer questions and introduce the film.
The film will be screening with the short documentary about Space 1026 by me.
Space 1026 members will also be there selling tons of MERCH!Don't be a sucker this will rule!! Special thanks to Jesse Pires for making this happen!
Wednesday JANUARY 21st
8:00pm
$5.00 students&seniors/ $7.00 general admission
@ The International House
3701 Chestnut Street
I'm in a group photo show with the other members of Space 1026 at Hamburger Eyes in San Francisco. The show is called "One Thousand Twenty-Six Eyes" and runs until November 5th. Big thanks to all my SF friends who helped hang the show: Molly McIntyre, Wendi Wing, and Dylan Mira. San Francisco ruled! For more pics go: HERE
Plastic Little got written up in the NYTimes and they printed a half page size still photo from the Dopeness video shoot. The photo is by Kelly Turso. Jayson killed it in the interview. Check it out: HERE
My video Red Bugs will be screening at the ATA Gallery in a touring program called ANIMANIMAL/MAMMAL/MANIMAL curated by Brel Frobe and Benjamìn Schultz-Figueroa.
It's a double-header screening with a new work by Jesse Malmed.
Friday, September 12, 2008. 8PM $6
@Artist's Television Access Gallery
992 Valencia Street (at 21st)
I'm on tour with my pals Dave Dunn and Chris Ward and a collection of videos from Philadelphia. If you're in the northeast or Canada come check it out:
I'm in a photo show called 12x36 that opens April 4th at 222 Gallery in Philadelphia, and on April 5th at Gallery Revisited in Los Angeles, and ArtSpaceHue in Seoul, Korea. They picked five artists from each city and gave us each a point-and-shoot lomographic camera with colored filters over the flash, and one roll of film. They are showing three pictures from each artist as well as the contact sheets. Some of mine are below.
I just started working with a design collective/company/pay-us-for-thing-we-like-please-group called THUNDERWhip (I voted for it to be called THUNDERhips) started by my old pal Nick Lally and and my new pal Emily Glaubinger. So incase you didn't think you could pay me money to do things for you now it's official that you can.
I was invited to participate in a works-in-progress screening on Friday February 22nd at Scribe Video Center hosted by the Philadelphia Independent Film and Video Association. There'll be works by me, Nhiue Do, and Bryan Karabostsos with a discussion to follow. I'll be screening the trailer for the Mumia Abu-Jamal project, the short version of the Space 1026 project, and a new piece about one day in Paris.
So I got to be a Mummer this year. What's that? Read about it: HERE. Check out pictures: HERE.
Thanks to Heather from Paper Doll Fashion for the costume hook-up and to Carrie Collins for being my partner in crime and saving the day with a church lady hat and some tentacles.
Space 1026 is celebrating its ten year anniversary this year and for the next two months our retrospective show "1026: NEVER FORGET! - Do It Yourself with Other People" will be up at the Space. Dave Dunn and I put together a sixteen channel video installation which revisits the past ten years in video work with over 12 individual loops and the 1026 documentary I've been working on split between four TV's. The audio is patched into two unmarked mixers and you can mix all the channels together or listen to them individually. The show runs until January 1st.
Pictures by Derek Inhat. Check out his write-up on Fecal Face.
The music video I made for Philly rap group Plastic Little is being officially released today by their label Free News Projects! The video features Kurt Hunte from Plastic Little as a pop-locking doctor who makes his hospital rounds with a cast of dancing nurses choreographed by my good pal Devynn Emory. It also features the very first time any rap group has given birth (to themselves) in a music video. All the costumes were designed by Carrie Collins of Fabric Horse fame. Thanks so much to Duncan Frazier, Dominique Caron, Demian Fenton, Valerie Keller, Jason Fetz, Chad Fahs, Kevin Gallagher, Joel Minnich, Chris Cottone, and all the many many people who helped out on this!
This image was taken by Kelly Turso. Click HERE to see more photos of the shoot by her.
Click HERE to see photos of the shoot by Mike Fleming who is also super awesome.
I'll have some videos installed at the BravinLee Gallery in NY as part of a group show Space 1026 is doing there called, "Indexidelphia." The show opens this Friday July 20th so if you're in the area say hi. You can be sure that the Space 1026 video will be making an appearance.
So the northwest is beautiful and even more beautiful when you are on a film tour with your pals Maple Rabbit. They played music and showed their videos and I showed a program of my films and videos, which I had never done before but thankfully everyone was pretty nice to me.
Thanks so much for all our friends who helped out: Nell and JR, Eli and Dansylvania House, Greg, Dan Kruse and Ivy, Jimbo, Danielle Lombardi and Jeremy, Alexis Gideon, and everyone who came out to the shows! Very special thanks to Andrea Penglase for hooking up the car and driving us half the way.
The Oberhausen Film Festival was great! The Sweatheart music video showed (in a shorter form) as part of the Commercial For A Concept program which will be released on DVD pretty soon by Graw Boekler. The program is currently touring with scheduled screenings in Portugal and Italy. BIG THANKS to the curators Georg and Ursula!
Also thanks to my good pal Rini Keagy for coming with me after helping me shoot some stuff in Paris the week before for a new project. Also thanks to the always-awesome Roger Beebe for housing Rini and I when we were in France.
I'm psyched to be hitting the northwest for ten days with Philly's premiere video band Maple Rabbit! I'll be screening a collection of my films and they'll be doing what
they do... it involves keyboards, videos, cuteness, and milkshakes in the yard.
5/20: Berkeley, CA Epic Arts Studio, 1923 Ashby Ave
8:30pm $5-10 sliding scale
I got asked to direct a PSA commercial for a local non-profit. They had a script and actors in place but the day before we were supposed to shoot one of the actors dissappeared. I called my pal Jay Purdy from Pyramid Skeem and The Extraordinaires and changed the script and this is what we got. Check it out: HERE
I'm in a show with the other members of Space 1026 at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art.It's called "Locally Localized Gravity" and it features a bunch of other collectives including pals LTTR and Black Floor Gallery. It's running until March 25, 2007. I'm showing an installation version of "Pulling Teeth", a documentary about Space 1026. There will be a special screening of it at Space 1026 on Thursday January 25, 2007 at 8:00pm.
I'm in a group photo show called "ACTING 101"which is up for the month of October. It's the first show in a new space opened by the Midwives Collective a rad group of Philly ladies who make great stuff.
The Midwives Gallery is at 722 Sansom St. 2nd floor
I spent two weeks on a bike-film tour with my friend, and one of my most favorite filmmakers, Bill Brown. Bill just finished an amazing new documentary called "The Other Side" about the US/Mexican border and decided to bike it around the US with some other movies about the region. I rode with him from Pittsburgh to Lafayette, Indiana. The first half of the trip we rode with pals Lori J. Reynolds and Renato Umali.
My friend Laura at the Houston Center in South Philly recently hooked me up with Frank Nitty, a 13-year old local up-and-coming rapper from south 7th street. She asked me to come by the center for an afternoon and film two tracks for a rap DVD Frank wants to put out called "Street Movement." Check them out: Track 1Track 2
The other week I was in Portland Oregon for the PDX Film Fest.
I'm thrilled to say that I was invited to take part in the PDX Invitational
otherwise known as the "World Championship of Experimental Cinema".
Below is a photo of me embarrassing myself and renowned
viewmaster artist, Vladimir, while singing a song from the
"Little Mermaid." Thanks so much to Matt and Gretchen
and all the amazing filmmakers whose work I got to see at
the festival.
PEN PALS
blind "exquisite corpse" drawing collaborations between
artists inside and outside of prison walls
opening reception:
SATURDAY May 6th
8:00pm to 12:00am
@ The Padlock Gallery
1409 Ellsworth St.
www.padlockgallery.com
“Exquisite Corpse” is a drawing game in which two artists collaborate on a
drawing of a figure without being able to see what the other is drawing. A piece of paper is
folded in half and one person draws a head on one side then the other person
draws a body on the other. Afterwards the paper is unfolded and the collaboration is revealed.
In this brand new show from the Padlock Gallery pairs of artists, consisting
of one currently in prison and one currently out of prison, were randomly
teamed up to play the game. No one saw what the other one had drawn.
This same process was done with students at YOUTHBUILD Charter School who
collaborated with ten young people their own age who are currently
incarcerated in Philadelphia. The show wil be up until the month of May
and the artists on the inside will get copies of their work sent to them.
ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Andrew Jeffrey Wright, Beth Nixon, Heather
Morton, James Ulmer, Jesse Moynihan, John
Heron, Juliet Wayne, Karel Mato, Kris Chau,
Liz Rywelski, Mark Price, Randall Sellers, Tadashi Moriyama,
Xavier Schipani, Adan Flaco Martinez, Ana Lucia Gelabert,
Antonio Howard, Bernard Patrick, Dan Fletcher, Danny Rene “Hawk” Smith,
Ed Chaparro, Fabian Flores, James B. Moura,
Scott Servis, Sherry Ann Vincent, Sundiata Acoli, Virgil Barfield
I just found out that Garrett Scott passed away on March 2nd.
He was a gifted and eloquent filmmaker who made very important and intelligent films - and for as much as I had the priveledge to know him - was an extremely warm and genuine person without an ounce of pretention. He was eager to do his part to make a difference in the world and he succeeded. His films and his memory will always be an inspiration to me.
You can get the "Robot Boy" DVD from K-Records.
Titles on the DVD are: "Robot Boy" "Red Bugs" "Lullaby for the Taken" (Kimya Dawson music video) "My Sister's Friends Always Seemed So Old" "Operation Infinite Christmas"
CHARLIE COTTONE IS AMAZING!!
he made this website check his shit out! and give him lots of money to make sites for things that he likes and send him vegan brownies even though he fell off the wagon
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