ethan bach
interactive media artist / documentary filmmaker / digital video artist

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

Updated: March 2008

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/