| CV [media artist CV] [academic CV]
education
MFA, Radio-TV-Film, Northwestern University, 1999
BS, Cinema and Photography, Ithaca College, cum laude, 1991
fellowships
South Carolina Media Arts Fellow, 2008
MacDowell Fellow, MacDowell Colony, 2006
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, Residency with Working Films, 2005
research interests
documentary media production and the creative reuse of archival film and other neglected media (i.e., "media archaeology" and "orphan films")
film & video works in progress
Disability Is Us (expected completion Aug. 2008), Producer/Director/DP
A documentary that examines the archival record of disability and the contemporary disability rights movement.
director of photography credits
Incoming Messages (2008 release) A video essay/melodrama about the cultural history of analog answering machines. Produced and Directed by Irene Gustafson.
Open Secret (expected completion 2009)
A documentary about family secrets in a small, Kansas town. Directed by Steven Lickteig. Currently in production.
completed works / mediaography & exhibitions
USC in China (2007, 30:00, digital video) A cinema-verite style documentary depicting student travel in rural and urban China.
Unfettering the Falcons (2007, 7:20, digital video) Co-Directed and Co-Produced with Niklas Sven Vollmer. Part road movie, part nature documentary, this video playfully explores the falsely gendered nature of the Atlanta Falcons football moniker through a bird of prey expert and a rescued American Kestrel (falcon).
2007 IDC Showcase, sponsored by SILVERDOCS at the AFI Silver Theater, Silver Springs, MD October 9, 2007
DokuFest Kosovo, Yugoslavia August 2007
Hot Docs, Toronto, Canada April 28, 2007 IDC Original Vision Award and Best Sports Documentary
International Documentary Challenge Finalist, March 2007
Cabin Field (2005, 40:00, 16mm film and digital video) Producer/Director/Editor. A non-fiction essay film that explores evidence of landscape use and social change on a cotton field in Georgia.
Published review: The Moving Image Journal, Vol. 7.1, Spring 2007
Juried publication: Oxford American Magazine, Southern Movie DVD Issue, March 2007
St. Mary's College of Maryland, Experimental Documentary Series, February 11, 2008
NEH Exhibition The American Farm , at Old Independence Regional Museum, Batesville, AK November 1, 2007
ATHICA Gallery, Athens, GA. "Ruburbs and Other Spaces Inbetween: Land Use and Environmentalism", March - May 2007
6th Annual Ozark Foothills Film Festival, Little Rock, AK March 30, 2007
Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD January 19, 2007
Bickett Gallery, Raleigh, NC September 21, 2006
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC September 22, 2006
Atlanta Film and Video Festival, Atlanta, GA, June 2006
911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA, May, 2006
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, May 2006
Evergreen College, Olympia, WA, May 2006
Delta International Film and Video Festival, Cleveland, MS, April 2006 Awarded Best Documentary
Balgan Experimental Film & Video Series, Boston, MA, April 2006
Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA, April 2006
Black Maria Film and Video Festival 2006, Awarded Jury Citation Award
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca, NY April 2006 Women Direct, 25th Anniversary Invited Featured Artist
SCETV broadcast, "Southern Lens," March 2, 2006 and June 15,2006
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA, March 2006
Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, February 24, 2006
University of Georgia, Environmental Ethics Program, January 30, 2006
Anthology Film Archives, NYC, February 8, 2006
University Film and Video Association, Chicago, IL, August 2005
Appalshop Media Arts Center, Whitesburg, KY, July 2005
Rural Route Film Festival, July 2006 Awarded Honorable Mention
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. May 2005 [World Premiere]
McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, April-July 2005
Environmental Documentary Film Festival, Athens, GA, April 2005
Finding Lula (2002, 8 minutes, found footage and ephemera) Producer/Director/Editor.
A found footage documentary that constructs a possible history for my Great Aunt, who I never knew.
Produced for: Seen/Unseen/Scene, McMaster Gallery, Columbia, SC, September 2002
Vivian's Beauty Shop (2002, 5 minutes, digital video) Producer/Director/Editor/DP. Hair culture in a small town beauty parlor.
DC-TV, New York, NY, broadcast Feb. 2005
Rural Route Traveling Film Festival, Fall '03 - Spring '04 New Orleans, LA; Atlanta, GA; Columbia, MO; Flagstaff, AZ;Abingdon, VA
Red Bank International Film Festival, Red Bank, NJ, October 2003
Rural Route Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, July 2003
Accessibility, Sumter, SC, September 2001
Aviatrix: Women Aviators of the Silent and Sound Era (2001, 30 minutes) Editor. An archival compilation film illustrating women aviators
and the culture of flight.
Experimental Aviation Museum, Osh Kosh, WI, July 2003
Orphan Film Symposium II: Documenting the 20 th Century Columbia, SC, March 2001
Leaving Bristol (1999, 35:00, 16mm film) Producer/Director/Editor/DP. A documentary film that explores my family's farm in East Tennessee and my Grandmother's failed memories.
SCETV broadcast, "Southern Lens," January 20, 2005
SCINDY Festival, Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC, May 2001
James River Festival of the Moving Image, Richmond, VA April 2000 Awarded Second Place
Women Direct, Ithaca, NY March 2000
Women in the Directors Chair, Chicago, IL March 2000
Colossal Film Crawl, Columbia, SC September 1999 Awarded First Place, Best in Show
UFVA Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA August 1999
Verdant Hills: Healing Nature, Sustaining Life (1998, 20 minutes, digital video) Director/Editor/DP. A documentary about sustainable agriculture in the rural Philippines.
Various screenings before congressional committees in the Philippines and United States. This video is still circulating as an educational tool for rural communities in the Philippines.
publications
Disability Is Us: Remembering, Recovering and Remaking the Image of Disability. Forthcoming in Filming Difference, University of Texas Press.
Edited by Daniel Bernardi.
Lost, Found and Remade: An Interview with Archivist and Film Artist, Carolyn Faber
Film History: An International Journal, 15.2 (Spring 2003), 208-213.
The Research Value of Amateur Films: Integrating Amateur and Found Footage into a Film Production Course
The Moving Image Journal, 2.2 (Fall 2002), 153-157.
"What is an Orphan Film?" text and illustration in The Scott Foresman Handbook for Writers, 7 th ed. Maxine Hairston, John J. Ruszkiewicz, Christy Friend, eds. (New York: Longman, 2004): pg. 263.
book reviews
Women Filmmakers Refocusing, by Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis, Valerie Raoul. Journal of Film and Video, Vol. 56, No. 1
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