Ni Hao, Hola, Shalom, Moin, Namaste' , Bonjour, Sat Siri Akal, Hello. Greetings to those of you from all over the world who are viewing this work. Xei Xei, Gracias, Toda, Danke, Dhaanvaad, Merci, Thank You and please come back for updates.
Upcoming Events
Updated: March 2008
Friday,
March 28, 2008, Show
Reclaiming the Pieces Showing
Screenings 5:30pm, 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm
Reception 6pm
51 3rd Street Studios, Troy, NY
Friday,
March 14, 2008
, Panelist and Screening
Of Words, Bodies Politic and Alternative Communities
Conference
University of Montreal
Panel: Visual and Community Arts and their Alternative Communities
3:25pm to 4:25pm, Room C-5023
“Transgender and Claiming Space in the Moving Image”
4:30pm Reclaiming the Pieces screening
May
1 - 3 2008, Screening
Transsomatechnics: Theories and Practices of Transgender
Embodiment Conference
Reclaiming the Pieces Showing
SFU Harbour Centre Campus
515 West Hastings Street
Vancouver, British Columbia
Highlighted Work
RECLAIMING THE PIECES - VIDEO CLIPS Coming Soon!
"I felt empowered
sitting in the audience while your video played last night. It says
a lot of things I wish I could say to people but never seem to find
the opportunity."
-Aryn Zev, trans artist (Aryn viewed a rough cut of this
film in progress)
Reclaiming the Pieces is a feature-length documentary film that walks us through the lives of seven transgendered people who have found their sense of place. Beyond just politics and anatomy, this documentary shows transgendered people as multifaceted individuals who share insights on life from their unique experiences. As filmmaker Ethan Bach travels across the US to interview transgendered people from all backgrounds, identities, and walks of life, we witness a cross-cultural people and a newly emerging landscape of this nation.
From New York City to Santa Fe to San Francisco, this documentary uses
poetic contemporary filmmaking techniques to tell the stories of transgender
people. As the sun rises over the horizon into the sky, the landscapes
morph from mountainous desert to cityscape, to the various landscapes
of where their journeys take place. We hear a women’s voice as
the title appears, “No one reassigned me anything. I corrected
some anomaly that happened in nature.” After her, we are introduced
to each person as they share a piece of themselves about how the film
will unfold.
In production! You can help - I need to raise money for post-production. Your name will go in the credits for your donation (or you can remain anonymous). Donation of $100 or more will get a signed DVD when the project is completed. To submit donation, please click on the button below.
To learn more about this project (click here )
the masses
(2007)
Check out the masses, my new work (click on pic)
Introversion
(2007)
Check out Introversion, my interactive art work (click on pic)
News
Updated: March 2008
As of January 2008 I have been working with HD video archiving and
documenatation of events as Assistant to Eric Ameres, Senior Research
Engineer at EMPAC - the Experimental Media and Performing
Arts Center - is a place and a program, where the arts challenge and
alter our technology and technology challenges and alters the arts.
Scheduled to open in late 2008.( website)
Since 2007 I have been working doing three camera shoots with a live
video switch for live music and art performances and providing help
with video workshops at the Sanctuary for Independent Media,
a community media arts center located in an historic converted church
in Troy, NY. We provide screening, production and performance facilities,
training in media production and a meeting space for artists, activists
and independent media makers of all kinds. (website)
SInce 2007 I have also been doing three camera shoots with live video switcher and live web streaming with iEAR Presents. As well as working with Greg Palmer, Technical Manager of the RPI Arts Department in maintaining and setting up an HD editing and multi format transfer studio with 5.1 surround sound capabilities. (website)
November 2007: Worked in the studio with interactive
audio artist Dan Valente to capture his performance
using HD and green screen for post processing and compositing on a 3D
simulated environment. Check out Dan's work at http://www.rpi.edu/~valend2/