Criminal Case 40/61: Reverb

Co-editor for a project by Andrea Geyer

Based on edited transcripts of the 1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem and the writings of Hannah Arendt, an abstracted trial scene stages six characters: Accused, Defense, Judge, Prosecution, Reporter, Audience. Each character within the scene is embodied by the same performer. The reconstructed, abstracted scene examines complicated questions of truth and justice as they travel across time within an individual and become history. The installation places 6 monitors— one for each character— around the viewers, situating them within the scene.

I worked with Andrea on a single channel adaptation for cinema screening of the 6 channel video installation. (2009-10)

Eleanore and the timekeeper

Editor for a documentary directed by Danièle Wilmouth

The complexities of a mother’s sacrifice are discovered when Eleanore, at age 91, moves her developmentally disabled son Ronnie into a group home, after 64 years of devoted companionship and daily ritual in their modest Pennsylvania farmhouse. Eleanore and the Timekeeper chronicles the lives of Eleanore and Ronnie Hickman, the Director’s grandmother and uncle. Shot on 16mm, the film is a quiet love story between a mother and son, which records the inevitable transformation in their relationship, and shifting definitions of home over a seven-year span.

76:00 | Documentary | 2010

9 scripts from a nation at war

Editor for a project by Andrea Geyer, Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander & David Thorne

9 Scripts from a Nation at War is a 10 channel video installation that responds to conditions and questions that have arisen since March 2003, taking the U.S. context as an initial point of view. While 2003 marks the beginning of the invasion of Iraq by U.S. military forces, it is a conflict reaches backwards and forwards in history and memory, as a “long war” that has few, if any, boundaries.

This work is structured around a central question: How does war construct specific positions for individuals to fill, enact, speak from, or resist?

Commissioned for Documenta 12

installation | 2007

The Water Front

Co-editor for a documentary by Liz Miller

Residents of Highland Park, Michigan, known as the birthplace of the auto-industry, have received water bills as high as $10,000; they have had their water turned off, their homes foreclosed, and are struggling to keep water, a basic human right, from becoming privatized.

The Water Front is the story of an American city in crisis but it is not just about water. The story touches on the very essence of our democratic system and is an unnerving indication of what is in store for residents around the world facing their own water struggles. (53 minutes, 2007)

53:00 | documentary | 2007

interzone

Editor for a project directed by Anne Quirynen

Taking W. S. Burroughs as a point of departure, Interzone was premiered as a concert at Konzert Oper 04 Produced by Berliner Festspiele. Eight right-angled white screens form a circle around the public and the musicians. Music: Enno Poppe. Libretto: Marcel Beyer. There are three iterations of this project: one for live opera, a stand-alone four channel video installation and a single screen version for cinema screening.

multichannel video installation for Opera | 2004

something between her hands

Editor for  Documentary directed by Sonya Shah

This film offers an examination of the growing problem of sex slavery and labor for women in Southeast Asia. Something Between Her Hands follows the stories of six young Cambodian women who must choose between a life of prostitution or garment factory work in order to survive.

17:00 | documentary | 2004