Threnody

A choreographed motion study for twinkling trinkets, beaming baubles, and glaring glimmers. A bow ballet ablaze (for bedazzled buoyant bijoux brought up to boil).

An old one, from the early days of my super 8 filmmaking. The Patti Smith Group live in N.J. 1976. The aliens are coming. Take me up, up……..

A super 8 film conceived and shot by my friend Franklin Johnson around 1975 with additional footage shot by me. Features our longtime friend Marlis Spauchus ( Dunn ). Music by Terry Riley.

A study of light and shadow shot on Tri-X super 8 black and white film. Music by the composer Peter Garland. " It is in the shadows that momentous encounters take place " - Alfred Fabre-Luce

# 2 in a series of personal short super 8 films called " The Quotidian Lyrics ".

The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.

3 days of the 2012 Fresh Grass Festival at Mass MoCA condensed in 3 1/2 minutes of Super 8 film. Edited in camera.

My first use of superimposition and cut-out animation. Winner of a grand prize in the best experimental film category at the annual Super 8 Film and Digital Video Festival held at Rutgers University

Impression of a performance of the Flock dance troupe at AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH.

A summing up of the spontaneous Super 8 filmmaking I have done over the past decade exploring nature, home, and friends using improvised distorting lenses, macro photography, and pixillation. I imagine that it would fit the film scholar P. Adams Sitney's definition of a " Quotidian Lyric". Music by 2 of my favorite percussion ensembles : Ensemble et. al. and TIGUE.

Spontaneous Super 8 explorations of the internal and external landscapes of my life as 2012 passes into 2013. Largely edited in camera. Music by Sarah Lipstate.

A short experimental doc about the wonderful world of roller derby. Shot on Extachrome 100D super 8 reversal film and largely edited in-camera. Music by tUnEyArDs.

Created for and screened at the 2nd Annual FilmOne Fest in Atlantic Highlands NJ. It's not as easy as it might sound to make a one minute film.

Impressions of the first Solid Sound Festival, a music and arts festival curated by the indie rock band Wilco and held annually at Mass MoCA.Edited in camera.

Sometime in the mid-70's, my good friend Bill McGowan had an idea for a film. He needed someone to film it, so I and my trusty super 8 camera took on the job. Shot on the streets of Boston early one morning. Music by 10cc. Check out those pants!

The British prog-rock band Camel in action in the mid-70's. For my old friend Ian Ward and his brother Andy Ward the drummer for Camel. Shot on Super 8 film.