This Existence is Material
10 minutes | 2003 I 16mm
Two tales - one of an unlikely friendship between an elderly male writer and a young female filmmaker, the other of
a poet who flies to Rome to incite an uprising against fascism in the 1930s. In Esperanto with English subtitles.
Screenings:
Ann Arbor Film Festival +Touring Program
Berkeley Film Festival, WINNER: Best Experimental Film
New Jersey International Film Festival, WINNER: Best Experimental Film
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, WINNER: Second Prize
Rencontres Internationales Festival, Berlin
Rencontres Internationales Festival, Paris
Festival der Nationen, Ebensee, Austria
Vidoex Experimental Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
Athens International Film + Video Festival, OH
Chicks with Flicks Film Festival, New York, NY
Anchorage International Film Festival
Anthology Film Archives, NYC,
Aurora Picture Show, Houston
Union Theater, Milwaukee
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca
Ithaca College, Ithaca
Central Michigan University
Rhode Island School of Design
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre-Haute
Buskirk-Chumley Theater, Bloomington
The Film Theatre at U.I.C.A., Grand Rapids
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Delta Film Works, Monroe, LA
Detroit Film Theater
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Capri Theater, Montgomery AL
City Club Cinema, Minneapolis
Foothill College, San Francisco
University of California at Davis
Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque
Cincinnati Film Society
Kent State University, OH
Southwest Film Center, Albuquerque
College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor
Reed College, Portland, OR
Resolutions 2005, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo
Renditions in the Gray Zone @ Studio 27, San Francisco
FLEX Fest, Florida Experimental Film Festival, Gainesville
Film Studies Center, University of Chicago, Artist Retrospective 2008
Orphan Film Symposium, Library of Congress, 2016