acupuncture, alchemy, between, birdsong, cartography, constellating symbols, crossroads, doorways, disappearance of bees, esoteric (not exoteric!), god/dess, Joan of Arc, language, liberty, Legba, Lacan, laughter, lightning, memory, music, poetry, puppetry, saints, sauna, semiotics, sound engineering, twilight zone, video production, zen.
The poetics of annihilation - how do we talk about that which is difficult, destroyed, demolished...
VIGIL a documentary short I made in 2007 measures the destruction of New Orlean's 9th ward in terms of time.
Pattern Recognition the opening 7.5 minutes of a 20 minute backing video for my spoken word performance. Sound created in collaboration with dj earWIG (tx). Performance debuted Saturday, Dec 15 at a benefit for Common Ground (New Orleans women's shelter) at Your Inner Vagabond on Butler St. Lawrenceville, Pittsburgh, PA.
Music
everything. except the crap.
Movies
7 movies
The Passenger Michaelangelo Antonioni Otoshiana (Pitfall) Teshigahara 1962 Japan Yojimbo Akira Kurosawa Mon Oncle Jacques Tati Diva 1982 France The King of Hearts (Le Roi de Cour) 1966 French Philippe de Broca Killer of Sheep 1977 US Charles Burnett
Television
I don't receive programming, I make it.
April 3 2009 in Pittsburgh /// My friend told me this morning he woke up to gunshots. Turns out some guy killed 3 cops. Responding to a domestic violence call. Domestic. Violence.
Books
8 books
Mockingbird Wish Me Luck Charles Bukowski The Street of Crocodiles Bruno Shulz The Black Book Orhan Pamuk. Sputnik Sweetheart Haruki Murakami Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov The Book of Disquiet Pessoa Tender Buttons Gertrude Stein The Trick is To Keep Breathing Janice Galloway
School Of The Museum Of Fine Arts
Boston,Massachusetts
Graduated: 2002
Student status: Alumni
Degree: Master's Degree
Major: Master of Fine Arts, Studio Art
Hey you! Thanks for stopping by last night! Sorry I didn't make it over to M.F, there was slight drama afoot which expedited my departure from that area...
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would love to have your film..hurry up..see details below...yiannis AZAdigitalCINEMAfestival 2008 The second international short-film festival of Thessaloniki will take place on September 25,26,27 2008 at the OLYMPION cinema and will be part of the prestigious 43rd DIMITRIA Arts Festival of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, the second biggest arts festival in Greece.
A selection of the impressive best short-films from the first AZAdigitalcinemafestival 2007 were shown at “special” screenings at the LISBON FILM Festival in Lisbon and Porto, in Athens and Thessaloniki at the Art Hall of IANOS bookshops and the FILM ACADEMY in Belgrade, Serbia.
Films can be shot on any digital camera up to 15min, but we are flexible for films of exceptional quality! Films shot with cell-phones are especially welcome! Deadline for submissions is Sept. 15, 2008 on DVD to: AZA cinema club 5, p.p.germanou st., Thessaloniki 54622 Greece
Please write for details: azacinema@gmail.com Phone: +30 2310 284748 +30 6944 207007 Submission form at www. azafestival. com This year’s films will be even more impressive, from Brazil to Australia, all over Europe, with special screenings for Balkan & Basque cinema, and more to be announced later, revealing new talented directors, while at the same time offer again the city’s demanding cinephiles a very special cinematic fiesta.
And I've always wanted a glowy pink flamingo for a friend! I once confided this to my two best friends, a glowy owl and a glowy trumpet-playing frog, and I think they felt insulted.
Cindy Sherman impersonated imaginary actresses in many roles, eventually completing the series of sixty-nine photographs in 1980. She stopped, she has explained, when she ran out of clichés.
Andy Warhol once said about Sherman , "She's good enough to be a real actress". Peter Galassi Chief Curator, Department of Photography
