Super-8 Mom (2002) 5 min
Super-8mm film edited on video
“I wasn’t trying to say anything, I was listening with my eyes”, said my mother Mary Jane Ellsworth when I asked about her home movie footage.
Awards
2004 San Francisco Art Institute Film and Video Festival, San Francisco, CA. Director’s Citation.
2004 Iowa City International Short Documentary Festival, Iowa City, IA. Kodak Vision Award.
2004 James River Festival of the Moving Image, Richmond, VA. Special Merit Award.
2003 Black Maria Film and Video Festival, Jersey City, NJ. Director’s Citation.
2003 2003.U.S. Super-8 Film and Video Festival, New Brunswick, NJ. Best Documentary.
Selected screenings
2013 Association of Moving Image Archivists, Richmond, VA.
2009 Eye Drum, Atlanta, GA.
2008 Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY.
2006 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
2006 South Bend Regional Museum of Art, South Bend, IN.
2006 UCLA Experimental Digital Arts, Art Office, Los Angeles, CA.
2004 Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY.
2004 Portland State University, Dept. of Anthropology, Portland OR.
2004 Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC.
2004 Videoex International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland.
2003 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, NC.
2003 Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, New York NY.
2003 Antimatter Festival of Short Film and Video, Victoria, BC, Canada.
2003 Shadow Documentary Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2003 South by Southwest Film and Video Festival, Austin, TX.
2003 North Carolina Public Television, Statewide broadcast on ‘North Carolina Visions.’