MISSISSIPPI ROLLS 1976
a three screen 25 minute looping 16mm installation commissioned for “The River: Images of the Mississippi” exhibition
Walker Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
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AMERICAN TAPES: TALES OF IMMIGRATION 2013
AMERICAN TAPES: Tales of Immigration 2013
A series of 4 one-hour videos following up 30 years later on the lives of the four Mexican families featured in the 1986 MEXICAN TAPES.
El Ojo Cojo Festival (Madrid), Museum of Contemprary Art, San Diego, Morelia Film Festival (Mexico), Montalvo Center for the Arts (San Jose, CA), Ambulante Film Festival touring Mexico City, Zacatecas, Tijuana & San Diego, Cinefest (San Antonio, TX)
NIGHTSCOPE SERIES 2000-2006
NIGHTSCOPE SERIES 2000-2006
12 digital pigment prints of nocturnal U.S./Mexican border crossers taken with thermal cameras (17 X 24 “ / 43.3 X 60.9 cm)
Terrain Gallery (San Francisco) and “Only Skin Deep,” touring exhibition from the International Center of Photography (New York), Camerawork (San Francisco ) University Art Museum (Long Beach), Neuberger Museum, Jim Kempner Fine Arts (New York), Human Resources Gallery (Los Angeles)
THE MEXICAN TAPES: A CHRONICLE OF LIFE OUTSIDE THE LAW 1986
THE MEXICAN TAPES: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law 1986
A series of 4 one-hour video segments that chronicles five-years in the life and times of an undocumented Mexican community. Woven from the stories of families living as neighbors in a southern California beach town, the narrative follows their lifestyle, acculturation, work, growing families, and survival in the shadow of the law.
WNET New York, KQED San Francisco, KCET Los Angeles, BBC United Kingdom, Pacific Film Archive (San Francisco), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), AFI National Video Festival (Los Angeles), Festival die Popoli (Italy), World Wide Video Festival (Amsterdam), the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (New York), and Nyon Festival (Switzerland)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: A CINEMURAL 1979
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: a cinemural 1979 (digital re-release 2005)
A 16mm film, a tri-projected cinemural, premiered in 1979 at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art followed by numerous public screenings sponsored by art museums. In 2004 the full 70 minute film was transferred to digital media and projected as video with live sound on the Getty Institute walls using three projectors for a special event night. The triptych for public spaces offers a critical look at the mythological landscape of south California.
Carnegie Museum (Pittsburgh), Downtown Whitney Museum, Denver Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley), Getty Center (Los Angeles)
STUDIES IN CHRONOVISION 1975
STUDIES IN CHRONOVISION 1975
22 minute 16mm color film using time-lapse cinematography
Museum of Modern Art (New York), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, MBX (Paris), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York)
LA MERA FRONTERA 1997
LA MERA FRONTERA 1997
An 89 Minute film offering a contemporary meditation on the border town of Nogales, Arizona and Nogales, Sonora and the international battle between the towns in 1918.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Figueira da Foz (Portugal), Society of Cinema Studies (La Jolla), Encuentro (Mexico City), Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley)
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