Julie Perini: The Blog

Video Experiments with Fact & Fiction
2010 Visual Studies Workshop Summer Institute
Rochester, NY
July 26 – 30

In this workshop students will investigate the blurry boundaries between fact and fiction. We will screen and discuss examples of fake documentaries, mockumentaries, re–enactments, diary films, and other films and videos that call truth into question. Students will collaboratively generate and shoot a short fictional script, create personal documentary videos based on their own lives, and create works that freely mix staged, fake, or fictional material with unstaged, truthful, or factual material. Students will learn basic camera operations, image composition, basic lighting techniques, incorporating appropriated material, and a number of editing strategies using Final Cut Pro software.

Check out this profile of a new instructor (me) written and photographed by Alice Groesbeck and Wayne Biebel.  I spent some time at coffee shops and pizza joints with these two exceptional students here at EUP (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania).  We talked and talked and talked and here is the result.

Pittsburgh’s chattering classes have been writing articles about the Cluster show curated by Adam Welch.  See The Post Gazette and The Tribune Review.  It’s a really interesting regional show. Read all about it.  And it includes Suffragette Slasher.

They are doing some bloggin‘ at Sierra Nevada College’s Fine Art Department.  This article covers my talk from February 11, 2010.  I had a solo exhibition up for a month that included video works from 2005 through the present.  Thanks to all the faculty, staff, and students at Sierra Nevada College for making this such a great event!  Thanks in particular to Kat Hutter.

Shoot First & Ask Questions Later
Solo Exhibition
Tahoe Gallery, Sierra Nevada College
January 21 – February 18, 2010
Reception/Talk: February 11, 2010
Incline Village, NV