Julie Perini: The Blog

While I am in Boston for spring break, I plan to write a review of Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video, a show up at the Institute for Contempoary Art.  It will be in The Fanzine in April; look out for it.

Things are cooking with Dicentra: The Movie, an ongoing project about Dicentra, a Portland-based collective “actively engaged in creating radical communities of care, networks of support, and movements based on relationship building.”  This project has a practical component, I upload documentation of their events to YouTube, and I plan to create a portrait piece about this collective, one that could be useful to other community organizers and general viewers.  Also it will take another form that will be more of an experimental video.  I like “observing” these guys; they’re brilliant and engaged with important community work.

Good news: the neighbors are cooperating on Girl Next Door, a documentary-based project that involves interviewing my immediate neighbors and figuring out ways for them to participate in the creation of a video portrait of our micro-community.  I recently dropped off a bunch of one-time-use cameras at each of their houses.  I can’t wait to see the beautiful banality they document.

Iowa City International Documentary Festival
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Iowa City, IA

Experiments in Cinema
Friday, April 17, 2009
Albuquerque, NM

International Women’s Film Festival
March 5, 2009
Buffalo, NY

Watch me break it down.
MK Gallery, Solo Exhibition
Curated by Patrick Rock
Portland State University, Portland, OR
February 2 – 27, 2009
Opening reception: Sat., Feb. 7, 6pm – 8pm

esc, artist talks facilitated by Arzu Ozkal-Telhan
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

hella hybrid lecture series, artist talks facilitated by Sarah Paul
T.I.M.E – Digital Arts, Cleveland Institute of Art
Cleveland, OH
Monday, February 16, 2009

Past & Present: Remembering & Remaking History
Thursday, December 18, 2008, 7:00pm
Presented by the Carnegie Art Center at the Historic
Riviera Theater, Buffalo, NY
Screening of Suffragette Slasher

35th Northwest Film & Video Festival
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
Saturday, November 8, 2008, 6:30pm
Saturday, November 15, 2008, 6:00pm
Special Selection by festival judge Kelly Reichardt
Screening of Suffragette Slasher

All Julie All the Time
Cascade Gallery, Solo Exhibition
Curated by Jacqueline Ehlis
Portland, OR
November 19, 2008 – December 31, 2008
Opening reception: Weds., Nov. 19, 2008, 4pm – 8pm
Artist talk: Weds., Dec. 10, 2008, 6pm – 8pm
On view: Experiments in Immediacy

Olympia Film Festival
Olympia, WA
Monday, November 10, 2008
Screening of Watch me break it down.

Young Alumni in Film Panel Discussion
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
November 15, 2008, 4:30pm

Others Like You: A Psychosocial Multimedia Exhibition
Spool MFG Gallery, Johnson City, NY
October 4, 2008 – November 15, 2008
Opening reception: October 4, 2008, 7pm
Closing reception: November 15, 2008, 7pm
On view: They’ve got a name for girls like me. & Experiments in Immediacy

Being Absent, curated by Soyeon Jung
Artspace, Buffalo, NY
October 10. 2008 – November 15, 2008
Opening reception: October 10, 2008, 7pm
Closing reception: November 15, 2008, 7pm
On View: They’ve got a name for girls like me.

Independent Exposure 2008
International touring program of films, based in San Francisco
Screening of Little Clips

Narrative Shorts Film + Video Festival
University Art Gallery, Chico State, CA
November 5 – 20, 2008
Opening reception: November 18, 2008
Screening of Suffragette Slasher