NEWS ARCHIVE
2022
• December 1, 2022 -Six-film retrospective (Reconstruction, The Samantha Smith Project, The Motherhood Archives, Maternity Test, Yours in Sisterhood, and Contents Inventory) streaming on demand this month on the Cryptofiction artist film platform
• October 9, 2022 – Contents Inventory at Tacoma Film Festival
• October 8, 2022 – Contents Inventory at Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam
• October 7, 2022 – Contents Inventory at Santa Cruz Film Festival
• August 5, 2022 – Contents Inventory at Mimesis Documentary Festival
• June 2-8, 2022 – Contents Inventory at Friss Húss Budapest International Short Film Festival
• June 1-12, 2022 – Contents Inventory at SF Docfest—streaming online and screening in person June 5th at the Roxie, San Francisco.
• April 29 – May 8, 2022 – Contents Inventory at Trento Film Festival in Italy
• April 27, 2022 – “Maternar. Perspectivas críticas desde el arte” virtual round table discussion with Carmen Winant and Julieta Aranda, MUAC Mexico City
• April 2022 – “How to Do Everything: A Conversation Between Filmmakers” with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan in Mothers of Invention: Film, Media, and Caregiving Labor, Edited by So Mayer and Corinn Columpar
• March 2022 – “Translating Interfaces in the Ms. Magazine Archive,” article in Frames Cinema Journal co-authored with Fabiola Hanna
• Feb 5 – April 17, 2022 – The Motherhood Archives at Garage Rotterdam in the exhibition Dearest Y.
• Jan-Feb, 2022 – Yours in Sisterhood streaming on Tënk (Quebec)
2021
• November 17-28, 2021 – Contents Inventory at IDFA Amsterdam (world premiere).
• November 11, 2021 – June 12, 2022 – The Motherhood Archives at MUAC Mexico City in Maternar exhibition.
• November 2, 2021 – LASER talk, Institute of Arts and Sciences, UC Santa Cruz (online event)
• May 2021 – Listening Across Difference: Feminist Conversation, Sisterhood, and the ‘70s, Senses of Cinema Issue 98
• May 2021 – The Motherhood Archives in “Disappearing Into Motherhood, A Creative Framework for Artmaking” by Mathilde Walker-Billaud in Art Papers
April 30, 2021 – The Motherhood Archives in “Taking Care” screening series, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.
• April 2021 – Yours in Sisterhood is this month’s featured Docalogue documentary.
• April 2021 – 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship
• March 2021 – “Feminist re-voicings in Yours in Sisterhood,” journal article by Tessa Dwyer in Jump Cut
• March 12, 2021 – Yours in Sisterhood screening and discussion event at The University of New Brunswick
• March 4-7, 2021 – Yours in Sisterhood streaming in Poland in Herdocs “Herstorie na Dzień Kobiet w Ninatece”
• March 4, 2021 – Empathy in the Archives Salon Circle artist talk at Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS
2020
• November 11, 2020 – Yours in Sisterhood screening and panel discussion event: The Mediated Voice, 2020-21 Centre For Screen Cultures, University Of St Andrews, Scotland.
• August 21, 2020 – Yours in Sisterhood at One World Romania International Human Rights & Documentary Festival, Bucharest, Romania
• June 5, 2020 – Online panel discussion in Cineclub One World Romania’s screening series The Waiting Room (with free streaming of Reconstruction and The Motherhood Archives in Romania from May 29).
• May 28, 2020 – Radical Self-Quarantine in Activism Across Social Distance panel in Maydays! Radical Thoughts on a Pandemic, Ryerson Univesity Studio for Media Activism, Toronto.
• May, 2020 – 2020-21 University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellow.
• April 10-30, 2020 – Yours in Sisterhood streaming for free in the Women Make Movies Virtual Film Festival.
• March 14 & 17, 2020 – Yours in Sisterhood at Bertha DocHouse, London, UK
• March 8 & 10, 2020 – Yours in Sisterhood at HERDocs, Warsaw, Poland and Polish interview on Ofeminin.
• January 22, 2020 – Ciclo de Cine FotoMéxico + Ambulante present The Motherhood Archives at Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico
• January 14, 2020 – Yours in Sisterhood screening in Ecuador at Casal Català de Guayaquil.
2019
• December, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood in Rough Cut Australia’s “Best of the Decade” list
• December, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood artist book available; limited edition of 50, hand signed and numbered.
• December 9-13, 2019 – “Poetics & Politics: Against Story,” on In Media Res
• December, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood streaming on Kanopy, via public library and university subscription.
• November 16-26, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood screening in documentary competition at Chéries-Chéris Paris LGBTQ Film Festival, France. Critics’ pick in i-D, Close-up, A Nous Paris, Les Ecrans Terribles, and Bondy Blog.
• November 7-16, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Pink Screens Brussels Queer Film Festival, Belgium
• November 5, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at West Chester University, PA
October 16-20, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood Special Jury Mention, Queer Porto International Queer Film Festival, Porto, Portugal
• October 2019 – FEMEXFILMARCHIVE article and toolkit (co-authored with Julie Wyman) is included in the October Activist Media issue of Feminist Media Histories.
• September 2019 – the DIY Feminist Filmmaking Syllabus featured in Film Comment‘s News to Me column and DOC NYC’s Monday Memo newsletter.
• September 4-8, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Pagine Nascoste film festival, Mantova, Italy
• July 28, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Los Angeles Filmforum, Los Angeles, CA
• July 25, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Visible Evidence, Los Angeles, CA
• July 25, 2019 – Reconstruction screening in CINEVARA series at Rezidența BRD Scena9, Bucharest, Romania
• July 16, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood screening outside at Cinéma Sous Les Étoiles in Montréal
• June 27, 2019 – Femspectives screening of Yours in Sisterhood in Glasgow
• June 19, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Tenemos Que Ver film festival, Montevideo, Uruguay
• May 31-June 2, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
• May 16-19, 2019 – co-organizer of Poetics and Politics 4: Against Story at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
• April 27, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
• April 11-20, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Belfast Film Festival, Northern Ireland
• April 11, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood in the National Council of Jewish Women Miami’s Advocacy Film Series, Miami, FL
• April 8, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood in First Person Cinema and feminist filmmaking workshop, CU Boulder, Boulder, CO
• April 5-14, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Sarasota Film Festival, Sarasota, FL
• April 4, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Scala Kino, Lüneburg, Germany
• March 27, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Department of the Arts, iEAR Presents!, EMPAC Studio Beta, Troy, NY
• March 20, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Colby College, Waterville, ME
• March 18, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood in The DocYard screening series, Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA
• March 13, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Pacific Film Archive in Documentary Voices 2019, Berkeley, CA
• March 12, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood screening in Parque Vicentina Aranha with Associação para o Fomento da Arte e da Cultura, São José dos Campos, Brazil
• March 9, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at the Oakland Public Library, Oakland, CA
• March 8, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood screening in FrauenFilmTage Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
• March 8, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Cheapskate Cinema, University of Melbourne, Australia
• March 8, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood Spanish streaming launch on Filmin
• March 8 & 14, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Cinéma Moderne, Montreal, Canada
• March 6, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Cinema & Kurbelkiste, Münster, Germany
• March 1-6, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
• March 1-9, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Bernie Grant Arts Centre, London, UK
• February 27 – March 8, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood theatrical run at Filmhaus im KunstKulturQuartier, Nürnberg, Germany
• February, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood theatrical run at Kino im Künstlerhaus Hannover, Hannover, Germany
• January 28 – February 3, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at DocPoint, Helsinki, Finland
• January 26, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood at Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
• January 16, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood Frameline Encore screening, Oakland, CA
• January 10, 2019 – Yours in Sisterhood theatrical run at Cinémathèque Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2018
• December, 2018 – The Sense of Feminism Then and Now: Yours in Sisterhood (2018) and Embodied Listening in the Cinema Praxis of Irene Lusztig in Senses of Cinema
• December, 2018 – Arsenal Distribution presents German theatrical release of Yours in Sisterhood at fsk Kino (from Dec. 6), Lichtblick-Kino, and Wolf Berlin (Dec 13)
• October – November 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood streaming on MUBI on “Direct from the London Film Festival” showcase (UK only)
• November 21-28, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at Filmfest FrauenWelten von Terre de Femmes, Tübingen, Germany
• November 17, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, San Jose, CA
• November 14-25, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at IDFA / International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• November 13, 2018 – “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, the ‘70s, and Listening Across Difference,” workshop at McGill University Institute for for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
• November 9-18, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at Cork Film Festival, Cork, Ireland
• November 8-18, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at RIDM, Montréal
• November 6, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at Pawilon, Poznan, Poland
• November 2-11, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at Remake / Frankfurt Women’s Film Days, Frankfurt, Germany
• October 24-28, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at Demakijaż – Festiwal Kina Kobiet, Lublin, Poland
• October 25, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening and discussion, Permanent Seminar on Cinema & Philosophy / Cinelab / Ifilinova, Lisbon, Portugal
• October 22, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood featured on No Film School Podcast episode “Why You Should (or Shouldn’t) Edit Your Own Films.”
• October 18-28, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at DocLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
• October 16-21, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg | International Queer Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
• October 11-14, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood wins best feature documentary at Dallas VideoFest
• October 11-24, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at New Hampshire Film Festival in Portsmouth, NH
• October 10, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood featured on the Fog of Truth documentary podcast.
• October 10-21, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at BFI London Film Festival
• October 9-14 – Yours in Sisterhood at Antenna Documentary Festival in Sydney.
• September 27-October 7, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at Out on Film, Atlanta, GA
• September 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood in Hyperallergic and Filmmaker Magazine.
• September 20, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening and class visits at Emory University, Atlanta, GA
• September 18, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening in the For the Record series, The Nickelodeon, Columbia, SC
• September 13-16, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening in the Camden International Film Festival, Camden, Rockport, and Rockland, ME.
• September 12-18, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening in Kreivės / Vilnius Queer Film Festival, Vilnius, Lithuania
• September 9, 2018 – Mothering Every Day at UnionDocs, New York, NY
• September 7-9, 2018 – lead instructor of Radical Possibilities: a Workshop Dedicated to Feminist Filmmaking, UnionDocs, New York, NY
• September 6-9, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival, Austin, TX
• September 5, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at Cinema Saver, Endicott NY, presented by the Binghamton NY Women’s Community
• September 4, 2018 – Syracuse University, Yours in Sisterhood screening and class visits, Department of Transmedia, Syracuse NY
• September 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood DVD release for libraries and institutions via Women Make Movies
• August 30-Septemeber 5, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening in Berlin at Dokfilmwoche
• August 6-19, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood Australia premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival
• July 26-August 5, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at New Horizons Film Festival, Wrocław, Poland
• July 16, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood screening at DCTV, New York City, NY
• June 14-24, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood official West Coast premiere at Frameline San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival
• June 13-17, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at AFI Docs, Washington D.C.
• June 6-14, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at Olhar de Cinema Festival Internacional de Curitiba, Brazil
• June 2, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival
• May 22, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood UC Santa Cruz preview screening at
• May 20, 2018 – Mothering Every Day at Northwest Film Forum, co-sponsored by EXcinema, Seattle, WA
• May 19, 2018 – Mothering Every Day at Boathouse Microcinema, Portland, OR
• May 17-26, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at Docaviv Tel Aviv International Documentary Film Festival
• May 13, 2018 – Mothering Every Day at Artists’ Television Access, San Francisco
• May 11, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood in the Los Angeles Review of Books
• May 10, 2018 – Forty Years at the Montreal Feminist Film Festival
• May 3-13, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at DocumentaMadrid
• May 2-10, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood at Pink Apple Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Zurich
• May 2, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood US premiere screening in the 5th Art of the Real showcase, Film Society of Lincoln Center, NYC.
• May, 2018 – “Interviewing about Interviewing” with Julie Wyman in No More Potlucks (Issue 50: Interview).
• April 26-May 6, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood North American premiere screening at Hot Docs in Toronto.
• April 13, 2018 – Forty Years screening in Headroom Presents NOW! Journal of Urgent Praxis, Iowa City
• April, 2018 – The Motherhood Archives streaming on Kanopy
• March 31, 2018 – Mothering Every Day program co-curated with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan at Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, co-sponsored by the Women’s Center for Creative Work.
• March 23, 2018 – Forty Years screening in Philadelphia at the Women’s Film Festival
• March, 2018 – The FEMEXFILMARCHIVE in the Brooklyn Rail
• February 8-March 17, 2018 – Forty Years and Feminist Historical Research Center showing in Spoken/Unspoken: Forms of Resistance in the Sesnon Gallery at UC Santa Cruz. Opening reception Thursday, February 8, 4:30–6:30 PM
• February 15-25, 2018 – Yours in Sisterhood world premiere screening at the Berlinale Forum
• February 9-10, 2018 – Forty Years screening in the Worldwide Women’s Film Festival, Scottsdale, AZ
• January, 2018 – Some early press for Yours in Sisterhood including an interview in Dispatch Feminist Moving Image, a write-up on the Women and Hollywood blog, an interview on Agnes Films and an article about the project in Ms. as well as an interview with project participant Claudia.
2017
• December 18, 2017 – Forty Years screening in Grrl Haus Cinema, a showcase of short films by women at the Brattle Theater, Cambridge, MA
• December, 2017 – FEMEXFILMARCHIVE, an ongoing collaborative archive of interviews with feminist experimental filmmakers co-created by feminist filmmaking students at UC Santa Cruz and UC Davis.
• December 1-30, 2017 – Yours in Sisterhood (gallery version) in the Rydell Visual Arts Fellows Exhibition, R. Blitzer Gallery, Santa Cruz CA; Opening Friday December 1, 5–9 PM
• December 1, 2017 – Forty Years in New from NOW! in Denver. NOW! Journal of Urgent Praxis presents a selection of works made in rapid engagement with political and cultural life, hosted by Collective Misnomer at Dikeou Pop-Up Space.
• October 12-15 2017 – participating and showing a preview of Yours in Sisterhood in The Mothernists II: Who Cares for the 21st Century?, an international symposium on care work and intergenerational feminist knowledge-sharing in Copenhagen.
• September 8 2017 – Notes on Feminist Process: Preview of Yours in Sisterhood at Indiana Unviersity, Bloomington, hosted by Directed by Women
• September 7 2017 – The Motherhood Archives screening at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
• September 6 2017 – “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s” Visiting Artist talk at Ohio University
• September 2-3 2017 – Forty Years screening in Sydney in the 4th WOMEN Media Arts and Film Festival
• June 18 2017 – The Motherhood Archives screening in Messy Entanglements: How to Re-make the World from Difference screening series, curated by Helena Grande and co-hosted by Curepark festival and Birth Project: Look Again in Amsterdam. Post-screening discussion moderated by Deirdre Donaghue.
• June 14, 2017 – The Motherhood Archives screening co-hosted by NTP – não te prives: Grupo de Defesa dos Direitos Sexuais and LIPA: Laboratório de Investigação e Práticas Artísticas da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal
• June 2-4, 2017 – presenting materials from Yours in Sisterhood as well as screening Forty Years at the Poetics and Politics of Documentary research symposium at the University of Sussex, UK.
• May 29, 2017 – Reconstruction screening at ICS, U Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal
• May 24, 2017 – Yours in Sisterhood wins best interactive pitch award at DocsBarcelona’s Interactive Pitch in Barcelona.
• May 18, 2017 – The Motherhood Archives screening and seminar discussion with me and sound collaborator Maile Colbert in the Seminar / Research Group on Cinema and Philosophy, IFILNOVA, FCSH / NOVA in Lisbon.
• May 9, 2017 – The Motherhood Archives screening in Lisbon at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, hosted by Faces de Eva Women’s Studies Center. With post-screening discussion.
• April 5, 2017 – Presenting work at ENCONTRO Expressões com som e imagem at ISMAI in Porto, Portugal.
• March 31 2017 – Forty Years screening in Cinematic Reflections on the American Social Climate inaugural program at CINÉMA-OKTÁ, Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston.
• March 19 2017 – The Motherhood Archives screening in Amsterdam, in conversation with m/other voices founder Deirdre Donaghue; part of a day of performances and talks at the Mothers in Arts Residency program.
• March 4 2017 – Forty Years screening at Other Cinema in San Francisco in OC’s annual Sisters’ Pictures show honoring International Women’s Month.
• February 7 2017 – “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s” talk at ICS at the University of Lisbon in Portugal, 2-4 PM, Auditório Sedas Nunes.
• January 19 2017 – Forty Years screening in Austin, TX in Experimental Response Cinema’s pre-inauguration call to action screening program F*CK TR*MP at the Museum of Human Experience.
2016
• December 20 2016 – Forty Years screening in NOW! Journal presents: Shut it Down! An evening of Radical Cinema at Interference Archive in Brooklyn.
• October 2016 – New short film Forty Years is up on Now!, a journal of urgent praxis, and also on Bitch Media online: Four women read letters about sexual violence that were sent to Ms. Magazine in the 1970s. This is happening now, but it has also been happening forever.
• October 25, 2016 – The Motherhood Archives screening at Bethel College in Kansas.
• October 23, 2016 – Screening at Headroom / Vertical Cinema at the University of Iowa in Iowa City.
• September 23-25 2016 – Spaces of Memory: Poetics and Politics in the Archives an immersive three day workshop for thinking with and about archives, found image materials, and documentary film practice at UnionDocs, with guests Zoe Beloff, Matt Wolf, and others.
• September 22 2016 – Empathy in the Archives at UnionDocs, a talk on feminist spectatorship, archival materials, and deep, critical viewing across time; part of Mathilde Walker Billaud’s speaker series on spectatorship What You Get is What You See.
• August 12 2016 – “The Place of the Personal Political: Feminist Documentary Practice Now” panel at Visible Evidence in Bozeman Montana, with Kristy Guevara-Flanagan, Julie Wyman, and Sasha Waters Freyer.
• May 13 2016 – The Motherhood Archives screening at the Garneau Theater in Edmonton, Alberta as part of the Mapping Maternal: Art, Ethics, and the Anthropocene colloquium.
• April 27 2016 – “Yours in Sisterhood: Utopian Conversation, Public Feminisms, and Talking to the 70’s” talk at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Cultural Studies
• April 2016 – The Motherhood Archives in Mexico in the Ambulante festival, screening in Mexico City, Oaxaca, and Veracruz. I will be at all three Mexico City screenings on April 10,11, and 12.
• March 7, 2016 – Reconstruction now available for VOD home streaming for the first time!
• March 2016 – Fulbright Fellowship awarded for research and teaching in Portugal in spring 2017.
• February 5 2016 – The Motherhood Archives screening at 4 PM in Phoenix, AZ at the opening for the Creative Push exhibition at Arizona State University.
• February 4 2016 – The Motherhood Archives screening at 7:30 PM in Tucson, AZ at EXPLODED VIEW gallery / microcinema
2015
• December 2015 – Honored to be a 2016-17 Rydell Visual Arts Fellowship recipient.
• November 13-14 2015 – The Motherhood Archives sound designer and composer Maile Colbert and I will be talking about our sonic collaboration as part of The Third Work: Sound / Image / Interaction, a research symposium on sound in non-fiction media at Hunter College in NYC. Free and open to the public.
• November 10 2015 – Visiting artist workshop at Princeton University.
• September 2015 – Honored that Maternity Test has been awarded a short film award for best documentary in Sydney at the second Women Media Arts and Film Festival.
• August 2015 – Happy to be the recipient of a Create Grant from the Arts Council of Santa Cruz County in support of my new project-in-progress Yours in Sisterhood.
• July 9, 2015 – The Motherhood Archives at Veggie Cloud, Los Angeles.
• July 9, 2015 – The Motherhood Archives screening in “Motherhood” exhibition, Lviv Art Palace, Lviv, Ukraine
• June 2015 – Interview about The Motherhood Archives with Benjamin Schultz-Figueroa in The Brooklyn Rail
• June 12, 2015 – The Motherhood Archives screening in Barcelona in the Drac Magic 23a Mostra Internacional de Films de Dones de Barcelona
• June 6, 2015 – The Motherhood Archives screening in Portugal at the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology in Lisbon as part of the the seminar “Pregnancy and Childbirth Reframed: Anthropological Perspectives from Portugal.”
• May 22, 2015 –MIA presents The Motherhood Archives at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena
• May 16-17 2015 – The Motherhood Archives at Poetics and Politics: a Documentary Symposium at UC Santa Cruz
• April, 15 2015 – The Motherhood Archives in Chicago, presented by MIA in collaboration with ComfortFilm
• April, 6 2015 –Maternity Test in the Athens International Film and Video Festival
• April 1, 2015 – Flaherty Dispatch on last night’s screening of The Motherhood Archives
• March 31, 2015 – The Motherhood Archives closes the Flaherty NYC Winter / Spring screening program That Obscure Object of Desire; screening at Anthology Film Archives in New York Tuesday March 31, 7 PM.
• March 19, 2015 – The Motherhood Archives is the closing film in the “Motherhood” exhibition in Kiev at the Visual Culture Research Center
• February 2015 – Maternity Test is showing in the Big Muddy Film Festival.
2014
• November 2014 – The Motherhood Archives in the Montreal Gazette.
• November 15-17 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens at RIDM Montreal on November 15th and 17th. I’ll be at both screenings to discuss the film. I’ll also be speaking at Concordia University earlier in the day on the 17th about the project.
• November 6-7 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens in the International Midwifery and Birth Film Festival at the annual Canadian Association of Midwives conference in Saskatoon.
• September, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives streaming online in its entirety for a limited time as part of this month’s Echo Park Film Center Marvelous Movie Mondays series.
• August 3, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives in the New York Times OpTalk.
• July 28, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screening in Portland, OR at the Clinton Street Theater.
• July 24, 2014 – My newly-published collaboration with digital magazine Triple Canopy is a visual essay companion to The Motherhood Archives – a meditation on archives, collecting, feminist historiography, and histories of childbirth, featuring lots of archival film materials.
• July 1, 2014 – “Breathing Exercises” – The Motherhood Archives is featured on KCRW / The Organist’s weekly podcast: featuring archival audio excerpts from the film, lots of background on the project, and a taste of Maile Colbert’s beautiful sound design.
• June, 2014 – Honored to be this year’s recipient of the Joan R. Challinor Award for distinction in the area of women and journalism from the Racliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s Schlesinger Library in support of research for a new project about public feminism and the 1970s.
• June, 2014 – I’m showing a brand new single-channel looped video piece, Maternity Test, in Santiago at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MAC) as part of New Maternalisms, Chile.
• June, 2014 – Proud to be the first filmmaker recipient of a Sustainable Arts Foundation Promise Award!
• May 31, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens in Chile again in FemCine’s Muestra Magallanes in Puerto Natale.
• May 23, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens at Cambridge University.
• May 22, 2014 – Reconstruction screening and discussion at Ertegun House, Oxford University; part of the series A Bank Robbery to Remember: Political Violence and Cinematic Imagination in Romania and Beyond, curated by Adina Bradeanu.
• May 21, 2014 -I’ll be giving an artist talk at The International Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film / DocWest at CREAM, University of Westminster in London; more information here.
• May 20, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens at King’s College in London, Waterloo Campus; more information here.
• May 4, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screening at UC Santa Cruz in honor of Inernational Day of the Midwife; screening free and open to the public.
• April 14, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives in the Athens International Film and Video Festival
• March , 2014 – Maile Colbert and I talk about feminism, science fiction, motherhood, uterine soundscapes, cellular memory, historical amnesia, and our collaborative sound work on The Motherhood Archives in “Sound Designing Motherhood” in Sounding Out!
• March 27, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens in Santiago, Chile in the 4thFemCine Festival Cine de Mujeres.
• March 25, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens in Rochester, NY at The Little Theater.
• March 8, 2014 – I’ll be presenting excerpts from The Motherhood Archives at The Museum of Motherhood as part of the conference Making Motherhood Visible: (Re) Writing the Narrative of Contemporary Mothers.
• March 5, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens in Lisbon, Portugal at theInstitute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, 3 PM, auditório A. Sedas Nunes.
• March 1, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens at Other Cinema in San Francisco.
• February 20, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens at the Big Muddy Film Festival in Carbondale, IL.
• February 18, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens at 7 PM at the New Parkway Theater in Oakland.
• February 15, 2014 – TFAP@CAA Day of Panels: I’ll be part of a round table artist discussion in The M Word, The Feminist Art Project’s day of panels at the College Art Association conference in Chicago.
• February 5, 2014 – I am curating, co-organizing, and showing a new three screen installation version of The Worry Box Project in Complicated Labors, a gallery show and one-day symposium at UC Santa Cruz. Opening reception on February 5, 2014, 5-7 PM, Sesnon Gallery. The show runs Feb. 5 – March 15 and includes many other fantastic artists who work at the intersection of feminism and maternity.
• January 19, 2014 – The Motherhood Archives screens in Vilnius, Lithuania as part of the DBYHR-organized event Mother Strike!
• January 2014: Educational DVD release of The Motherhod Archives in Women Makes Movies Winter 2014 new releases catalog – ordering page is up at Women Make Movies
2013
• December 2013 – The Worry Box Project is featured in the latest issue of MaMSIE
• December 21, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives receives the Best Feature Film award at the Women Media Arts and Film Festival in Sydney, Australia.
• November, 30 2013 – Cine Rebis presents The Motherhood Archives in Porto, Portugal at Maus Hábitos
• November, 16 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screens in London again at Cine Rebis (formerly the London Underground Film Festival ).
• November 10, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screens at the Santa Cruz Film Festival
• October 31, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screens in London at The Photographers’ Gallery as part of the exhibition Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood, and Identity.
• October 20, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives world festival premiere at Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria
• October 17, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screening and discussion at Capilano University, Vancouver
• October 8, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screening and discussion at UC Santa Cruz
• September 25, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screening and talk at San Francisco State University, San Francisco
• September 19, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screening and talk at Colby College, Waterville, ME
• September 17, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screening and talk at Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
• September 12, 2013 – The Motherhood Archives screening in Schlesinger Library Film Series, 6 PM, Cambridge, MA
• July, 2013 – “The Birth of Motherhood” interview about The Motherhood Archives inThe New Inquiry’s July issue.
• July, 2013 – Preview screening of The Motherhood Archives in Dublin at Reimagining Birth Symposium.
2011
• June, 2011 – The Worry Box Project, created in collaboration with digital artist Noah Pedrini, is a collective archive of maternal worries that invites anonymous submissions from mothers, mothers-to-be, and non-mothers. If you submit an anonymous worry, I will create a handwritten text on video for you. The project is ongoing and will be updated regularly until the worry box is full.
2010
• 2010-2011 – work on new project-in-progress The Motherhood Archives supported by a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study / Harvard Film Study Center.
• April 6 2010 – Reconstruction in Dotted Lines: Women Filmmakers Connect the Past and the Present at Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, CA
• February 12 2010 – Reconstruction Romanian national premieire, “Seara de Film”at ICR Bucharest with Irene Lusztig and Adina Bradeanu in conversation.
2009
• December 9 2009 – The Samantha Smith Project in reWIND 1989, Stockholm, Sweden film series curated by the Romanian Cultural Institute.
• April 3 2009 – Reconstruction screening in Stockholm, Sweden sponsored by the Romanian Cultural Institute.