Julie Perini: The Blog

I am still reeling from my first experience at a Flaherty Film Seminar. I felt like I was on another planet for a week. I will post more information about my week at the seminar soon.

Just a few of the filmmakers whose work I saw last week:
Amar Kanwar
Jeanne C. Finley + John Muse
Kamal Aljafari
Abderrahmane Sissako
Susanna Helke
Pawel Wojasik
Pavel Medvedev

A huge rainbow in Eastern Oregon

Wyoming

This sign in Nebraska says "Julesburg" but I missed it.

West to East, Portland, OR to Hamilton, NY

Monday night: Boise, ID
Tuesday night: Cheyenne, WY
Wednesday night: Geneseo, IL
Thursday night: Cleveland, OH

I stopped in Oberlin for an afternoon to visit with my friend Arzu Telhan.  She is an artist teaching at Oberlin, and she helped me out with transferring some video off of tapes.  I also spent some time in Cleveland with the great Mindy Peden and Dave Bartholow, and their 6 week-old kid Miles.

Yael Bartana, Still of Wild Seeds, 2005, Two-channel DVD projection color with sound, 6:39 min/loop, Courtesy of the artist and Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

Provocateurs and Participants – a review of Acting Out: Social Experiments in Video at the ICA Boston

By Julie Perini, June 17, 2009

Thanks, Jay Sitter in Cambridge, for helping with this one.

Anything that Moves took place in this venue, Buswater on the Boulevard.

Anything That Moves
Video program curated by Stephen Slappe of Portland, OR
Screening at Buswater on the Boulevard
June 2009
Charleston, WV

Image by Christie Hudson.

Reed Wallsmith and Chris Hudson spent some time in the studio/basement with me tonight.  I plan to work on some videos for Reed’s music group, the Blue Cranes.  We talked about distorting the images to swirl the way the sound swirls, using intentional image degradation techniques the way Evan Meaney does.

This is a mountain lake. Photograph by Ryan Pierce.

This past weekend was unbelievably dope.  I am not enjoying this return to normal life after four days on an artist retreat in Eastern Oregon with a new art/activist group called Signal Fire.  Picture this: a remote ranch, snow-capped mountains, hikes in the woods, great food, great conversation, and a jacuzzi that looked out on cows grazing in pastures. That was my life for a few days.  It was one of those magical mind melds where everyone seemed to get in tune with each other fairly quickly.  It was a real treat to be able to spend this kind of time with such smartypantses: writers, painters, sculptors, designers, activists, a biologist, a ceramicist, and little ol’ video me.

Soon I will post my latest video shot on the trip: a very short video documentation of what I believe to be a sasquatch sighting.  No joke.  Or a piece of salami.  The footage is unclear.