Studio News
MacDowell Fellowship, April 2024.
I am delighted to share that I was awarded the MacDowell Fellowship in Filmmaking this year and will be participating in the residency this spring!
Solar Storm officially selected to screen at Wide Open Experimental Film Festival (WOEFF)
WOEFF will take place on April 26, 27, and 28 at the Oklahoma City Museum Of Art. More info: wideopeneff.com.
Solar Storm Uruguay Premiere!
Solar Storm will screen at 6th Edition Mientras tanto CINE - March, 2024
Mientras tanto CINE is a space for training, creation and exhibition of experimental cinema that takes place in Montevideo and other places in Uruguay.
Solar Storm screening at Cosmic Rays!
“Solar Storm” has been selected for the 6th Cosmic Rays Film Festival. The festival will take place from Friday, March 1st to Sunday, March 3rd, 2024 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Un-Tidal is a Finalist at Blow-Up International Arthouse Filmfest!
Turkish Premiere of Solar Storm!
Oct 19-21, 2023.
Solar Storm will have its Turkish premiere at the International Short Film, Video and Photography Symposium, held at Kadıköy Barış Manço Cultural Center on October 19-20-21, 2023. I’m excited to screen Solar Storm in this wonderful program.
World Premiere! Flare at the Wrong Biennale!
Flare, my new ink-jet printed 16 mm film will premiere this month as part of the Wrong Biennale, in the pavilion nonplace.site
“Counting its viewership in the millions, The Wrong just might be the world’s largest art biennale — The digital world’s answer to Venice.” - The New York Times
I hope you will check it out!
Un-Tidal screens again with Fisura Film Festival!
Sept 21, 2023.
8:00 p.m. at Demina Laboratorio de Artes, a cultural space located in Acapulco de Juárez, Guerrero.
Program: Despliegues
Curator: Carlos Cruz
Coordinator: Jaylin Tabárez
Headquarters: Demina Laboratorio de Artes, Acapulco de Juárez
Address: Mina street almost on the corner of Velázquez de León, Centro, Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico.
Line up
1.- Alejandra Hernández and Ann Steuernagel – Pulsar, USA
2.- Yan He – Anicca, USA
3.- Annie St-Jean - Sans moi, Canada
4.- Ethan Berry - A Small Lie, United States
5.- Daniel Robin – Sun Coming and Casting a Shadow, USA
6.- Lenny S. González – Three Sisters, USA
7.- Emma Roufs – Four Seasons Bouquet, Canada
8.- Isabelle Nouzha – Dystopian Patterns, Belgium
9.- Noé Grenier – The following images never happened, France
10.- Masha Vlasova – Un-Tidal, USA
11.- Kang Le – A thousand kisses deep, Taiwan
12.- Alfonso Santillán – Omnisciencia, Mexico
Total duration: 68 minutes
Canadian Premiere!
Solar Storm at OIAF
Sept 21, 2023.
Solar Storm screens at The Ottawa International Animation Festival (September 20 – 24, 2023) in program “Dots, Lines, Washes: Animating Ink” curated by Alla Gadassik
Chicago Theatrical Premiere!
Un-Tidal at CUFF
Sept 13-17, 2023.
Un-Tidal will play in the program “Shorts 11: Un-Tidal Transformations” at 30th Chicago Underground Film Festival.
Waterlands screens in Germany!
July 23, 2023
Waterlands
I’m delighted to share that I’ll be premiering my new film Waterlands as part of the Immigrant Artist Biennial this Fall in NYC!
Opening in September 2023, a curatorial platform where cultures clash and merge, The Immigrant Artist Biennial 2023: Contact Zone presents 48 artists from 35+ countries across seven venues in New York and New Jersey. Programming will continue through January 2024.
Un-Tidal will screen at 61st Ann Arbor Film Festival !
March 22-26, 2023.
I’m delighted to have Un-Tidal officially selected to screen at Ann Arbor Film Festival this March. The screening will take place in Ann Arbor, MI and online.
Un-Tidal is programmed into “Films and Competition 11” block on March 25th at 7:30 PM. Tickets for in-person and online screening, along with the full program can be found HERE
Feb 6-11, 2023.
My new film “Solar Strom” will screen on China in a multi-city tour in wonderful company. Cities: Guangzhou, Beijing, Chengdu and Shanghai. Screening organized by Hanyu Hu.
India Premiere of Un-Tidal!
Dec 9-11, 2022.
Un-Tidal will have its India Premiere in Mumbai this December. It will be screening on Dec 10th in wonderful company at 16MM FILM FESTIVAL MUMBAI 2022 . I’m delighted to show Un-Tidal in India and to Premiere it with the festival I’ve long admired.
Dec 10
Program: Ankur (a seedling) *shorts
to plant a seed in your mind, of all that can bloom from the celluloid medium.
12:30 – 1:45 PM
New York Theatrical Premiere!
November 4-6, 2022.
Un-Tidal will screen at Light Matter Film Festival in Alfred, NY running from November 4-6. I am delighted to show this film, which originated in and is about New York at Light Matter 2022 in incredible company.
Light Matter is Co-Programmed by James Hansen & Eric Souther
Program Four: Within the Fold
Saturday Nov. 5th, 3:30 PM
Oct 5 - 9, 2022.
Un-Tidal has been selected to screen at We Make Movies International Film Festival, which will be taking place this fall in Hollywood; Wednesday, October 5th through Sunday, October 9th!
BLOCK SIX
Thursday, Oct 6, 8:00PM PDT
Broadwater Theatre (6320 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90038
Sept 9-Oct 16, 2022.
Un-Tidal will screen as part of a group exhibition entitled Vector at Heaven Gallery in Chicago, IL.
Vector is a group exhibition that presents works across painting, sculpture, video, and poetry that employ repetition as a common thread to generate patterns and mutagenic forms, containing elements and images inspired by landscapes, photos, and media to create a dialogue addressing territory, power, boundaries, and the biological and social ecologies within which they occur.
The exhibition is curated and organized by Bianca Abdi-Boragi.
Address: 1550 N Milwaukee Ave #2, Chicago, IL 60622
Her Type at Defy Film Festival 2022
Aug 19-20, 2022.
Her Type will screen at Defy Film Festival in Nashville, TN this August! I’ll be there and doing a Q+A after the screening.
“Un-Tidal” at TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE
July 2 - 9, 2022.
“Un-Tidal” will screen at TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE International Screening of Experimental Films and Video Poems in Tranås, Sweden.
About the Festival: Tranås at the Fringe is a multidisciplinary arts festival in the small town of Tranås (Sweden), a charming place on the edge of lake Sommen, surrounded by the woodlands of Småland. For eight days, artists from Sweden and other countries from different disciplines in literature, film, and performing arts meet and put on about 100 events.
For more info about the festival go HERE
June 2022: Artist Residency
June, 2022.
I spent this June at Arteles Creative Center in Hämeenkyrö, in Finnish countryside, where I worked on a new celluloid ink-jet printed film tentatively titled “Shutter Painting” and “Waterland,” a film essay set in the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area in Minnesota.
Un-Tidal wins two awards at EFEA
I'm honored and humbled to share that “Un-Tidal”won two awards at EFEA (Experimental Film Festival of East Anglia)!
“Un-Tidal” got awarded Best Celluloid Film in this year’s program and the EFEA Award for Original Concept.
“Un-Tidal” at Ouray Film Festival
June 26, 2022.
I’m delighted to have been invited to screen “Un-Tidal”in a noncompetitive program at Ouray Film Festival, entitled Don’t get too close: A program of contemporary short experimental fiction and nonfiction cinema, curated by Ouray Film Festival Artist-in-Residence Jonathan Rattner.
“Un-tidal” will screen on June 26 at 11am. I’m honored to show my film alongside artists I admire deeply: Ben Balcom, Kate Lain, and Anto Astudillo, and Jonathan Rattner.
Ouray FF Dates: Jun 23-26.
Ouray FF Venue: Wright Opera House, 472 Main Street, Ouray, CO.
“Her Type” at CURRENTS FESTIVAL 2022
Jun 17 - 26, 2022.
Santa Fe, New Mexico.
This June,"Her Type" (2019" will be on view as part of Santa Fe’s annual art + technology Festival, Currents 2022: Circuits! My film will screen with over 75 other new media artists from around the world from June 17th-June 26th, at venues across the city.
CURRENTS is an initiative of Parallel Studios, a local nonprofit founded by Frank Ragano and Mariannah Amster. As curators, they have shown artworks at the intersection of art and technology by artists based regionally, nationally, and abroad for twenty years. The result is a diverse, dynamic, and captivating exhibition that attracts a wide range of both local and visiting audiences. Each year the festival presents works that include a mix of interactive and immersive installations, virtual and augmented reality, multimedia performances, robotics, 3D printed work, video, sound art, and more.
“Un-Tidal” will continue to screen at Frame & Frequency VIII ‘s extended run!
Jun 3 - Aug 7, 2022.
Frame & Frequency VIII got extended this summer! “Un-Tidal” will continue to run at VisArts’ Kaplan Gallery from June 3rd through August 7. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, June 10, 2022, from 7 - 9 PM.
VisArts
155 Gibbs Street
Rockville, MD 20850
United States
“…Frame & Frequency is an ongoing screening series that highlights artists whose new media, experimental film, and video works explore contemporary visual culture. Each iteration presents an intimate panorama of the variety and breadth of video art in artistic practice today.
Frame & Frequency features a diverse group of artists representing multigenerational and cultural backgrounds, nationalities, and personal histories, and demonstrates the artists’ impressive command of video and new media technologies.
Artists: Adán De La Garza, Alana Bartol, Alex Culshaw, Alexander Isaenko, Benson A’kuyie, Carlos Vázquez, Clem Routledge, Dina Kelberman, Eri Kassnel, Guido Devadder, Jacob Raeder, Johannes DeYoung, Masha Vlasova, Nate Dorr, Nelson Fernandes, Niya B & Bunny Cadag, Sebastian Mary Tay, Wheeler Winston Dixon…”
Full Press Release can be found HERE
European Premiere of Un-Tidal at EFEA
May 28 & 29, 2022.
“Un-Tidal” will have its European premiere at the end of May at EFEA (Experimental Film Festival of East Anglia) and will compete in the nomination for the Best Celluloid Film in this year’s program! I’m honored to be in the program with filmmakers I admire.
Un-tidal screens in New York in Kabayitos Theater at
the Clemente Center
May 21-22, 2022.
Un-Tidal will screen in NYC! I’m excited to screen this film in New York as it was in part conceived and produced there. The film centers around Hurricane Sandy that hit New York City in late 2022.
WHEN:
May 21st, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
May 22nd, 2:00 - 4:00 PM
WHERE:
Kabayitos Theater
The Clemente Center
107 Suffolk St. 2nd floor
New York, NY 10002
May 12, 2022.
It was a pleasure to sit down with EFEA’s Festival Director Jacob Watkinson to talk about “Un-Tidal”
You can watch the full interview HERE
Un-Tidal at Frame & Frequency film festival in Rockville, MD.
May 7 & 8, 2022.
"Un-tidal" will screen at Frame & Frequency VIII film festival in Rockville, MD. May 7-8.
VisArts
155 Gibbs Street
Rockville, MD 20850
United States
Un-Tidal premieres at "Microwave Coven presents"
April 1, 2022.
My new film “Un-Tidal” was accepted into the "Microwave Coven presents" animation screening as a part of Contemporary Art Month in San Antonio, Texas. The event will be held on First Friday in April, adjacent to the Blue Star Arts Complex.
"Microwave Coven presents"an animation screening in partnership with Southtown Vinyl, Contemporary Art Month, and AV Expression
April 1, 2022 with screenings at 8pm and 10pm with DJ sets to follow @ AV Expression Warehouse
125 Guadalupe St, San Antonio, TX 78204
Her Type at CURRENTS NEW MEDIA
“Her Type” is officially selected for CURRENTS FESTIVAL 2022: CIRCUITS this June in Santa Fe, NM ! I have long been a big fan of the festival and so look forward to screening my film in excellent company!
The Imaginary Kaleidoscope
Feb 2022.
“The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” screened at the First Persian Independent Experimental Short Film Festival
Feb 24, 2022.
“Chekov’s Masha’s Masha” (2015) is screening in Austin, TX in a line up of incredible artists titled “VLM’s VIDEO ART Social” curated by VLM (Virginia Lee Montgomery) with support from the Line Hotel, Big Medium, and Hyperreal Film Club.
Her Type won Audience Choice Award at Burnt Film Festival
I’m delighted to share that “Her Type” won the Audience Choice Award in program 4 at Burnt Film Festival’s THIRD EDITION. It was an honor to screen alongside wonderful filmmakers. Grateful for the opportunity and recognition.
Dec 3 - Jan 15, 2022. “Her Type” is curated into a show TOGETHER IS BETTER: WORKS FROM RESIDENTS ‘21at Stove Works, Chattanooga, TN
It was an honor to be invited to Stove Works Residency for July 2021. I had an incredible time, met wonderful people and made so much work!
It is equally an honor to be invited to show (an older) piece as part of the this exhibition.
The exhibition is cutated by Katie Hargrave and Christina Renfer Vogel. You can read their curatorial statement and learn more about the exhibition HERE.
Nov 30, 2021. Digital book Made in Contact: Collaboration in times of social distancing is now live!
In 2021, I participated in a multi-platform collaborative project “Made in Contact” organized and curated by Bonny Nahmias and Gabriella Willenz. The artist Noa Yekutieli responded to my film “The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” with an original artwork Behind The Front Yard and the writer Boris Fishman responded to both our works with a poem Behold The Man Detained By Thought. You can learn more about the project, read the curatorial and artist statements, as well the works HERE.
BLOW-UP · International Arthouse Filmfest · Chicago, 2021
“The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” is a Semi-Finalist at BLOW-UP · International Arthouse Filmfest · Chicago, 2021
Chantal Partamian’s response to Burnt Film Festival’s THIRD EDITION Program 4/12
Chantal Partamian writes about “Her Type” in their response to the Burnt Film Festival program:
“…The time when a photograph is taken, a photograph is seen and then the time when it’s looked at again.
How much can one rely on the photographs? And how does one make sure a day is remembered when it does not have a signifier? Ikehata’s film is a mixture of archives and landscapes but also the narrator’s memories and those of their mother. A blend of past and present where mother/daughter realities, memories and their physical existence in a space in different times, intertwine.
The overlap in Masha Vlasova’s “Her Type”, is that between the filmmaker and their father. By the manipulation of a photograph through a masculinizing application, Masha now resembles her dad. The space between the mother’s gaze and the photograph on the phone becomes that of a romantic recollection, a longing for a deceased lover. A space where intimate desires surface and tension between the subject and the camera is palpable…”
ChaShaMa Gallery, NYC
Nov 7 - Nov18 , 2021 . My piece “Glass Dance” will screen at the group show Uniforms for the End of Time at CHASHAMA GALLERY, NEW YORK
Opening: November 13, 5:30-9pm
Nov 16-29, 2021. “Her Type” will screen at Burnt Video Art and Experimental Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Full screening program is available online.
ASAP 12: “New Worlds of Speculation: Reflections on ASAP/Journal Special Issue”
Oct 27 - Oct 30. I’ll be presenting a short film based on an essay “Fluid Objects” co-authored with Moira O’Shea at session “New Worlds of Speculation: Reflections on ASAP/Journal Special Issue” for ASAP 12 (the association for the study of the arts of the present) conference. Conference will be held virtually.
Date and time: 10/30/21 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM ET | Speakers: Ayendy Bonifacio, Carolyn Fornoff, Maia Gil’Adí, Michelle Huang, Jonathan Leal, Justin Mann, Moira O’Shea, Carmel Ohman, John Ribó, Kristy Ulibarri, Masha Vlasova, Katie Walkiewicz.
Sept 28 - Oct 22, 2021. “The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” will screen as part of BIDEODROMO Internacional Experimental Film and Video Festival in Bilbao (Basque Country), Spain.
Oct 21-Nov 19, 2021. “The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” will screen as part of TUNE in to GREEN short film series, entitled Minor Chord at Diorama Room.
The TUNE in to GREEN short film series is a project from Diorama Room, LLC. Inspired by the Milwaukee Public Museum of Natural History, where the first habitat diorama was built; the House on the Rock; Joseph Cornell; Wes Anderson; and Meow Wolf, the Diorama Room was first imagined as an immersive arts space featuring digital and mixed media installations by artists whose work focuses on a dialogue with nature.
Sept 8 - Sept 12, 2021. “The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” screened as part of WMMINTL BLOCK 5 (in excellent company :)) in LA.
Solo screening “Rehearsals”
Aug 23 - Sept 17, 2021. I screened four pieces (including two new works “The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” and “Mr. Hutcherson and His Fantastic Cat Menagerie” ) as part of my solo screening “Rehearsals” at <terminal> Gallery, APSU, Clarksville, TN.
July, 2021. I spent July as an Artist in Residence at Stove Works in Chattanooga, TN. It was an honor to have been invited as the first round of residents at Stove Works! As part of the residency, I gave a short artist talk to other residents and the community, and participated in Open Studios. Learn more about this new space and their events here.
During my time there, I worked on post for my new film “Mr. Hutcherson and His Fantastic Cat Menagerie” and started a new experimental 16mm film “Un-Tidal".
Architecture of the Elsewhere
May 15 - July 15, 2021. “The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” screened as part of “Architecture of the Elsewhere”, an online exhibition at Gallery Perchée. For more information on the show and all participating artists go HERE.
April 29 - May 1, 2021. “The Imaginary Kaleidoscope” screened at the 18th Annual Iowa City International Film Festival (ICDOCS 2021), Iowa City, IA. My film screened on Saturday May 1 @ 4:00p as part of Competitive Program 5: Games, Illusions, Systems, Play. I participated in a Q+A with other filmmakers in the program: Kevin Jerome Everson, Ross Meckfessel, Ayo Akingbade, Emma Piper-Burket, Simon Liu, Jennie Marytai Liu, Sarah Friedland, Cecelia Condit.
April 4, 2021. Interview with Casserole Series about “The Imaginary Kaleidoscope.” Read the full interview HERE.
Checkerboard Borders, online film screening, and event series, 2021
March 8-19, 2021. Checkerboard Borders, online film screening, and event series, 2021
I co-curated and organized a screening and event series with the support of the Cultural Affairs Grant from Wofford College. The screening foregrounded contemporary experimental and avant-garde films from Iran, Mexico, China, Taiwan, and Palestine that stalk the themes of memory, longing, home-coming, and displacement. The films have a unique visual and narrative approach and explore performance and performativity for, in collaboration with, or in spite of the camera.
The screening is a collaboration with Sarah Lasley and was organized in conjunction with a panel with filmmakers and a lecture titled “Screening Palestine” by Dr. Nadia Yaqub.
Featured Artists:
Jumana Manna
Morehshin Allahyari
Hugo Santana
Tanin Torabi
Shahrzad Changalvaee
Bianca Abdi-Boragi
Qigemu
Hanyu Hu