Julie Perini: The Blog

Still from "Rice: Like us, it rests under the bed." video, 2006

Shoot First and Ask Questions Later:  Julie Perini’s Radical Video Aesthetics
A screening-chat at the Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
Friday, October 30, 7:00pm

Julie Perini is an artist working primarily in video and events.  Curious about the world and its inhabitants, Perini has made an art out of breaching social norms and developing methods to understand and present the results of her experiments as works of video art.  A proponent of unplanned shooting and improvised situations, Perini will unpack her “shoot first and ask questions later” process with audience members.  During this screening-chat, she will share examples of her early work in performance, discuss her work with activists and community organizers, elaborate on her research into the histories of experimental media art and radical politics, and most important of all, screen some of her experimental video work.  The program will include selections from the performance-video-mail project, Experiments in Immediacy, the recent award-winning short film Suffragette Slasher, and excerpts from an in-progress experimental documentary, Girl Next Door.

Women Behind the Lens: A Night of Women’s Film @ Anthology Film Archives
Part of the Eye Am series
32 Second Avenue, New York, NY
Tuesday, October 13th 2009 from 6:15-8:30pm

7:15pm program: “Chaos/Peace” (including Q&A with Filmmakers)

The work in this bill explores the various ways film/videomakers process the chaos within that can stem from personal relationships, societal pressure and global concerns with different approaches ranging from the conceptual to the completely absurd. Artists include: Marianna Ellenberg, Hyung Sung, Liz Haley, Julie Perini, Cat Tyc, Victoria Fu, Virginia Valdes & Kitty Green.  Curated by Cat Tyc, a NY based video artist/director whose work has screened in a variety of places like the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Camac d’ Art in Paris, PDX Fest in Portland, the Kassel Experimental & Documentary Film Festival in Kassel, Germany and the High Energy Constructs gallery in Los Angeles. XLR8R magazine has described her visual depiction of “seeing sound” as ‘something closer to abstract illusionism’.

6:15 program

Experimental, narrative and documentary shorts made by women. Featuring the works of Naomi White, Oriana Fox, Alana Kakoyiannis, Akosua Adoma Owusu, Naiti Gamez & Kim Hall. Curated by Victoria Kereszi. Victoria Kereszi is a photographer, filmmaker and educator living in Troy, NY. Her work celebrates the ways women represent the Self from within the margins.