One day, with some luck, this is where there will be movies to watch,
but for now you can read about them if you like to do that.

Filmography

2011
Another Time Capsule, 16mm film & HD video
Baby number three gets time capsule number three. This one is about my genealogy.

Pine Bush (working title), 16mm film & HD video
In the early 1970’s a group of artists from New York City purchased a run down bungalow colony in the Hudson Valley, my parents among them.

2009
Time Capsule For You Too, 16mm film & video, 6 minutes
Tackling the issue of parenthood by highlighting the struggle to maintain one’s fundamental identity while taking on a new persona as parent. I contrast the two aspects of my self, the artist longing to create and the mother’s daily experience.

2006
Time Capsule, video, 10 minutes
Making a time capsule is easy, you simply gather up some objects, seal them in a container and wait. Time Capsule uses the same format for a video. While pregnant in the winter of 2005 I collected images from popular culture, news events and my life, put them together and locked them away for the future.
New Filmmakers Series, Anthology Film Archive, NYC, NY, 2006
Pratt faculty show, Brooklyn, NY, 2005

2005
Conference, video, 20 minute looping video installation
This video is an account of the International Digital Media Arts Conference held in Orlando, Florida in 2004 for college educators in the field of digital media. Sent to the Conference by my employer, I wanted to bring back an accurate report that would include my observations on the daily workshops as well as my experiences of being on a business trip. Exchanging the usual mediums of paper, emails and Powerpoint presentations for digital video camera and editing software, Conference aims at a more truthful document of the trip.
International Digital Media Arts iDEAs exhibition, Orlando, FL, 2005

2004
Beauty Secrets, video, 17 minutes
Eight sisters and daughters, age two to twenty seven, squeeze into an adolescent’s bedroom to prepare for an important event. The plucking, painting, primping and gabbing that follows is a comprehensive portrait of feminine beauty rituals.
Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2004

2003
Sarah Nye, 16mm film on video, 5 minutes
A short film about how marriage shapes identity. Trading one patriarchal name for another, Sarah Hanssen became Sarah Nye, only to become herself once more.
Video Series, Goliath 777, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
Brooklyn Underground Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
New York Underground Film Festival, NYC, NY, 2005
Reel Venus Film Festival, NYC, NY, 2004
17th Annual Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX, 2004
The Back Alley Film Festival, Tucson, AZ, 2004
Emerging Filmmakers Series, The Little Theatre, Rochester, NY, 2004
Portland Documentary & Experimental Film Festival, Portland, OR, 2004
Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2004

Two By Twelve, video, 1 minute
This commissioned one-minute video can screen individually or as a loop. It was created for the CityZooms project in Bremen, Germany where they asked seven curators from port cities around the globe to invite artists to create a one-minute video about their home city.
Out of the Loop, Barbés, Brooklyn, NY, 2005
Resolutions 05, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 2005
Thailand New Media Arts Festival of Bangkok, 2005
SparkVideo, Syracuse, NY, 2004
Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2004
Alternativa Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona, Spain, 2003
up-and-coming Film Festival, Hannover, Germany, 2003
CityZooms, Uebersee Museum square, Bremen, Germany, 2003
Peripheral Programming: PDX/JFK Connection, R.B.M. Cinema, NYC, NY, 2003
Image Festival, Int’l Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence, Italy, 2003

The Whole Patient, video, 46 minutes
In May of 2001 my mother was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. Instead of going the traditional route – mastectomy, chemotherapy, radiation- she chose a unique treatment in Germany that incorporated alternative treatments along with conventional medical protocols.

2002
A Second Is Like It, video, 7 minutes
This video is a quick reflection on my experience in downtown Manhattan on the morning of September 11, 2001. When reviewing my video material I was struck by the stunned calm of the people on the streets just five blocks away from the World Trade Center. This work is about that moment when time slowed, that moment which flew by in a panic and yet seems to go on and on still.
Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2004
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, Anthology Film Archive Show, NYC, NY, 2002

2001
Close-At-Hand, 16mm film, 4 minutes
Hand processed b&w images of an icy world collide with the sounds of breathing, heavy machinery and a drunken tune to create a sense of claustrophobic confusion and longing.
Flicker, The Knitting Factory, NYC, NY, 2003
Body Blend dance performance, Dixon Place, 2002

One After the Other: Five Videos With Children, video, 59 minutes
This video series began as an exploration of childhood and developed into both a study of
human nature and a meditation on my own fascination with youth.
Robert Beck Memorial Cinema, NYC, NY, 2002

And Shine, 16mm film, 4 minutes
Primarily a portrait of a friend, this is a film about melancholy, rest and moments of perfection. By sharing our intimate space I ask the viewer to look twice at the slow, simple beauty of waking up to the surrounding world.
Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2004
Image Festival, Int’l Festival for Architecture in Video, Florence, Italy, 2003
Centuries of Childhood, Chicago Filmmakers Cooperative Chicago, IL, 2001

What Is Me, video, 20 minutes
This video contrasts two sets of young siblings as they engage in the usual daily activities of fighting, playing, competing and feeding. We witness the subtle ways in which children learn their place in society, and their place beside their brother/sister. Identity questions are further complicated by the presence of their own image reflected back to them on the LCD screen of my DV camera.

2000
Nature Walk, video, 4.5 minutes
Aimed at finding a moment of spontaneous behavior, this video stems from my interest in the preverbal gestures of a child and how I might record her with minimal adult interruption or image manipulation.
Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA, 2004
Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL, 2003
Visible Evidence Conference, Marseille, France, 2002
Fools of April, Anthology Film Archive, NYC, NY, 2002
Going Places, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Holland, 2001
Almanac, Dutch TV program, broadcast in Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 2001
Relative Distance, Mobius, Boston, MA, 2001
Sarah Lawrence College Experimental Film Fest, Bronxville, NY, 2001
Flicker Film & Video Festival, Evanston, IL, 2000
Johns Hopkins Film Festival, Baltimore, MD, 2000
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, 2000

That's Me, video, 10 minutes
This video is an investigation of how children interact with modern media technology, in particular, their own sound and image. Playful humor and social commentary mesh as we watch their deep concentration become self-fascination.
“Screen Spirit,” Stådtische Galerie im Buntentor, Bremen, Germany, 2004
Pleasure Done, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2004
Jiraff, NYC, NY, 2001
Going Places, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam, Holland, 2001
Almanac, Dutch TV program, broadcast in Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 2001
The Nearest Far Away Place, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Bklyn, NY, 2002

I Doing, video, 13 minutes
Keeping in mind the theme of imitation, this video asks the viewer to come to their own conclusions about how children learn.
31st Canadian International Annual Film Festival, Campbell River, B.C., Canada

What Needs Pull, video, 5 minutes
This piece is a reflection on motherhood. By focusing on the inner motivations and outer tuggings of young children, this piece reveals the innate conflict of the parent role.
Ocularis Brooklyn, NY, 2000
Flicker Film & Video Festival, Evanston, IL, 2000

1999
What Remains, 16mm film, 4 minutes
This film combines the blurred photographed image of a three-day-old infant with the bright contrast of black fingerprints on clear leader. The union of these elements is a visceral description of texture and touch.
Centuries of Childhood, Chicago Filmmakers Cooperative Chicago, IL, 2001
Reel Short, online short film & video catalog, 2000
Firefly Cinema, NYC, NY, 1999

Sound Sense, super 8, 2 minutes
My last chance with super8 sound, this film is a fond farewell. Two separate children discover out of the ordinary uses for the microphone and a funny play on the medium results.
Small Windows Festival, San Francisco, CA, 1999
Splice This, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 1999

Two Come Home, super 8, 5 minutes
This short super 8 film records the specific moment when a mother brings home her second
child from the hospital.
Flicker, The Knitting Factory, NYC, NY, 2003
Small Windows Festival, San Francisco, CA, 1999

Beach, super 8, 3 minutes
A walk on the beach where the camera says more than the people, this film experiments with how in camera edits speak to the viewer.
Flicker, The Knitting Factory, NYC, NY, 2003
Reel Short, online short film & video catalog, 2000
Small Windows Festival, San Francisco, CA, 1999
Super 8 Side Show, Denver, CO, 1999

1998
Image After Night, 16mm film, 6 minutes
Inspired by the phenomenon of after images, this film is made up of stationary protagonists (sleeping people, plants & furniture) being given movement by flashing lights and zoom manipulation.
Elevator Film Show, DUMBO Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY, 1998

No Dog, video, 7 minutes
This one take video is an observation of one child's playful and creative response to his environment. The boy reminds an adult audience that there is a well of fun to be had in simple repetition and deep concentration.

Quiet Chime, video, 2 minutes
Using time lapse and freeze frame, this video offers a new way of appreciating the frenzied movement and noise of a small child.

1997
Understanding Spanish Television, video, 10 minutes
Using the television as a forum for cultural exchange, this work deals with the confusion and luxury of being an outsider.

Baby, super 8 to video, 2 minutes
An homage to the infant, and a bow to motherhood, this video notes a singular, but age-old moment.

1996
Day Labor, video, color/so, 52 minutes
This intergenerational, ladies only road trip has all the ingredients of a cliché cross-country adventure, weapons, nudity, and an SUV.

1995
Rickie Lake Faux, video, 4 minutes
A group of 8-year-old girls with water balloon breasts sum up daytime talk shows. Their graphic re-enactments make a frightening statement about our greedy, sex driven culture.
Third Text, Brookline, MA, 1997

Peter, by the girls, video, 7 minutes
Two young girls describe their unusual, artist grandfather while he is pictured in his studio. Although mainly a comedy, this video is also a loving portrait.
Hudson Valley Film Festival, 1998