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A child of sixties television singing songs that got stuck in her head, 2010

A child of sixties television singing songs that got stuck in her head, 2010 depicts me singing popular opening theme songs from late 50's and 60's television shows. My isolated serenade is captured as I sing to my reflection in a large mirror. In my renditions of Bat Masterson, Rawhide,Yogi Bear, The Mickey Mouse Club, and other once popular melodies, I enact rituals of self-intimacy and create a commentary on aging, memory and the inevitable advancement of time, while reminding us of the peculiar cultural productions that bind us together as a generation and delimit one generation from the next.

Running time: 13:30

Shown here - one excerpted clip
Running time: 1:00

embrace, 2010

embrace, 2010 is a stop motion animation HD video. It is part of the ongoing series entitled found birds, 2000 - the present.

Running time: :06

fly like the wind, 2009

fly like the wind, 2009 is part of the ongoing series; found birds 2000 - the present.

Running time: 3:00

untitled (11-14 May 1998), 2001

untitled (11-14 May 1998), 2001 was shot in Poland at: Chelmno, Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzéc, the four camps whose exclusive function for Nazi Germany was the manufacture of death. This four channel video slowly drains itself of color to leave a set of black and white images while the ambient sound of birds singing is gradually replaced by the sound of film moving through a projector gate. While shot in the present, the footage, once drained of color, simulates the archival imagery that has formed the collective memory of the Nazi genocide, despite the absence of the archival footage to which these specific images would refer.

Running time: 8:20

Re unifications, 2001

Re unifications, 2001 is a three channel video that was shot in Berlin. One channel was shot in "West" Berlin on the grounds of the Olympic Stadium built for Hitler's 1936 Summer Games. When I was there, the stadium was in the midst of preparations to host a Rolling Stones concert. The other two channels were shot in "East" Berlin inside the Jewish Cemetery at Weißensee. This large urban cemetery survived both the Third Reich and the Soviet domination of East Germany. While largely untended, the cemetery remained intact.

Running time: 1:22