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 Films and Web Art


Triple Cremation Ceremony in Ubud, Short travel documentary of rare triple cremation ceremony in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia.  Part of Our Bali Journal (see Blogs). February 2011.

Ex-Voto, Editing of live recording footage of the free jazz group the Maikotron Unit featuring Michel Côté, Pierre Côté and Michel Lambert, 2010.

Our Thanksgiving Dinner, 10.10.10, short film for One Day on Earth, a globel film project featuring documentary footage all shot on the same day around the world.  Featuring music written and performed by the JTs, filmed in Montreal.
Bringing Liberation Day Home
A short video based around my family's personal stories during the liberation of Holland in 1945.  As I describe this family history to my children in Montreal we invent our own tribute so we can celebrate Liberation Day at home too, May 2009.  Created for the independent film project  Who We Are for Kngfu Media and the National Film Board of Canada.

Spellbound
 Short video around the recording "Spellbound", performed by Jeannette Lambert, vocals, based around the poem by Emily Brontë, from the album "Unclouded Day", Ayler Records, Sweden. Combines Jeannette's photos with footage from the recording session at Loho Studios in New York, 2008. 

Sand Underfoot
Seven minute short improvised film and experiment in low-tech to accompany the improvised music of the same name.  Filmed in the Laurentians using a digital still camera.  Published on the new cd, Sand Underfoot, featuring poetry by Jeannette and special guest Paul Bley on piano,  2006.

Midwinter Ballad
A short digital video for the collaborative digital cinema experiment, Story Streams. Three films with a shared narrative are created in three cities, Montreal, Paris, and Mexico City and mixed live online to create a fourth film. Themes of urban alienation, rites of passage, city as body, are all explored in Midwinter Ballad. Produced by Nora Barry, Screen Arts Media. 

    Screening
    - Story Streams Live Webcast, Streaming Cinema 3.0, Philadelphia, February 2003.
    - Chiangmai New Media Festival, Thailand, April 2003.

where are you from? d'où viens-tu?
Web cinema that explores themes of identity, memory, geography and heredity. Autobiographical films are interwoven with orginal poetry, music and animation as a response to the question of the title. Awarded funding from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.

Salome
Shockwave animation based on the hypertext project, "Salome Goes to SoHo to See Her Poster in a Show". As the themes of metamorphosis, female identity and veils emerged , the title of Salome was chosen, with all its connotations and symbolism.

    Screening
    - Selected for gender[f], online exhibition of artworks by women, dedicated to the disappeared women of Juarez, October 2004.

    - Selected at Streaming Cine 2.0, internet film festival to tour Denmark, Austria, France and the U.S., June 2001.

    Publications
    - Riding the Meridian, The Progressive Dinner Party.

Lone Jack Pine
Experimental digital video short combining jazz, art and poetry.

    Screening
    - ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, January 2003.
    - Seoul Net Festival, Seoul, Korea, November 2001.

As Saturn Sweeps Past
An electronic poem/slideshow. Autobiographical hand-coloured photos and a stream of consciousness poem are integrated through the use of Flash animation. The passage of Saturn causes one to pause and look back, while the images sweep ahead in cyberspace.

    Screening
    - Featured at Adobe Online in November, 2000.
    - Screened on digital media website, 120seconds.com, 2001.
    - ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, March 2003.

Sunset on St-Viateur
This project uses streaming video, poetry, and hypertext to celebrate urban energy. Filmed in Montreal, summer of 1999. This project was awarded financial assistance from the Canada Council for the Arts, New Media and Audio Artists Program.

    Screenings
    -Selected for the Bookmark Series, Forum des Images, ISEA, Paris, December 2000.
    - Presented at the Festival International Nouveau Cinéma Nouveaux Médias in Montreal, October, 2000.
    - Selected for d>art 00, Australia's premier showcase of innovative film, video, cd-rom, web & sound art, June - July, 2000.

Givre (frost)
A short internet film evoking the silent films from the beginning of the last century, based around the jazz song of the same name. Shot in black and white Super 8 film in the picturesque small village of St. Michel de Bellechase along the St. Lawrence River. 

    Screenings
    - ZeD, national t.v. broadcast, February, 2003 and March 2004.
    - Presented by DruidMedia, at the net.congestion festival in Amsterdam, October, 2000.
    - Featured on digital cinema website The Bit Screen in June, 2000. - Selected for "Streaming Cinema" at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema in May, 2000. Scheduled for Streaming Festival in Seoul, Korea.

Recoil
A musical/hypertext project, with animation, javascript and streaming Real Audio.

    Exhibition/publication
    - trAce , international online writing community, Nottingham, U.K.
    International anthology, addressing time and digital revolution
    "'My' Millenium", July 1999.

One Night in Greenwich Village
With original graphics, javascript and streaming Real Audio sounds recorded in New York, May 1998.

    Exhibitions
    - Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo, Japan
    1998 exhibition Art on the Net "Beyond Language Barriers"
    - Nomads à Washington D.C.
    "Open Spaces/Linked Locations", November 1998
    - Rhizome Artbase: Archive of Internet Art

Emerging From Erasure
Created in collaboration with Raquel Rivera. A blank page reveals our tempestuous relationship with technology.

    Exhibitions
    - Studio XX in Montréal
    "Maid in Cyberspace - le festival XX d'art WWW", fall 1997
    - Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, with ISEA, 1997
    "Meme Me: Identity in the Replication Age"
    - Rhizome Artbase: Archive of Internet Art

Mining Reflections
Created in collaboration with Raquel Rivera. Reflections on traded images.

    Exhibitions
    - Assemblage, the Online Women's Hypertext Gallery, at trAce, 2000.
    - Champ Libre's Troisième Manifestation Internationale Vidéo et Art électronique à Montreal
    - Women's Internet Conference, Ottawa.

Sketches on a Napkin
Fifth in a series of web art projects created with Raquel Rivera, constructed entirely in cyberspace. This project is based on concepts of surrealism and automatism.

    Publications
    - Cauldron and Net, Volume 2: (confluence).

BLOGS

Our Bali Journal
A daily journal with stories, photos and videos from my family's month long trip to Bali, as well as our stopovers in Hong Kong, Singapore and Jakarta.  Also published as a photo book, 2011.

My Shopping Notebook
Notes on experiments with online shopping, 2010.

In My Hysterical Opinion
Book and compact disc review website, created in collaboration with Raquel Rivera.

Diary of a Mystic Detective
Award-winning online dream and coincidence diary, one of the first online journals, before the invention of blogging, 1997-98.



VIDEO AND PHOTOGRAPHY

Online stock photography and video portfolio:
Istockphoto

Digital photography for Parisian section of Operation [Interface], an online exhibition of architecture and digital photography, mirroring the cities of Paris and Montreal.

- Part of the festival Printemps du Québec en France, June 1999.
Canadian Centre for Architecture
Institut français d’architecture

Photography for the Vancouver Island Regional Libraries.

Photography for cd album art, Jazz from Rant.

WEB SITES


SwingStreets
Web site for New York Walking Tours

Cultural Marketing Institute
Web site design.

High Traffic Marketing Institute
Web site and animation with newsletters and bulletins.

Ecole Arc-en-Ciel
Volunteer for school website for seven years, working with different cms, photography, video and web site design .

Agatha Schwager: Painting and Photography
Web site for visual artist Agatha Schwager.
Jazz from Rant
Web site for jazz musicians, with sound files, photos, biographies, catalogue of compact discs and electronic press kits.

Bebop for Babies
Web site for musical group specializing in jazz versions of classic children's songs.

Jazz Grrls
Web site for women in jazz, as well as a mailing list for the female jazz community.

The Dame Domain
Website for a portal for women of un certain age.

Game-Film
Web site and flash animation for the Game-Film project, an interactive game that results in a short streamed film.   The first of these, Descent to the Underworld, linked 8 universities worldwide in a mulit-point, multi-national production studio.

Streaming Cinema 3.0
Web site and flash animation for the festival held in Philadelphia, February 2003.

The Bit Screen
Web site and flash animation for the online cinema website.

Car Seat Safety, Flash animation
Edited and animated four interactive videos on car seat safety, a total of 16 minutes, for Druid Media.

Quilts Annette Françoise
Web site for quilt artist Annette Françoise, including images, artist statement and thoughts on fibre.

A Holiday Minute
A short internet film for the holiday season, produced for the Bit Screen/Druid Media, December 2000.

Desert Safaris by Desert Fox, website for a Bedouin guide in the Bahariya Oasis, Egypt.


ARTICLES

Womenspace.ca, First prize, Tapestries, Herstory contest, 2002

The Australian, review of d>art 00 festival, June 22-28 2000

n.paradoxa, volume 3 1999

Bee Hive, Hypertext Hypermedia Literary Journal, Vol. 1 #2

Clin d'Oeil, novembre 1998

CIAC, Magazine électronique du Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal


CONTACT
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