Recent Work
paradise jacked: snapshots of the cultural underground
Canada, 2008, 11 minutes / video
An
experimental survey of Toronto women artists and performers, with Louise
Ethel Liliefeldt, Sandra
Alland, the Laydeez Quire, Sook-Yin
Lee, Martha
E. Chaves and myself. This short was companion to my MA thesis "Paradise
Jacked: Primitivism, Disidentification & Feminist Cultural Practice."
Collaborations
Some Girls...
laina dawes & KM Augustine, canada, 2005, 9 minutes / video
Conceived
by music journalist Laina
Dawes, this short was developed to accompany her presentation, "Black
Female Metalheads" for the 2005 EMP Pop Music Conference in Seattle,
Washington.
Works in Distribution
All rental, screening and purchase enquiries are handled directly through my distributor, V Tape. Please contact them at 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 452, Toronto, ON Canada M5V 3A8. Phone: (416) 351-1317. E-mail V Tape.Post-Modern Minstrel
Canada, 2001, 4 minutes / video
Featuring
dubbz/poet/at/large Clifton Joseph, the pontifical diatribe of his alter
ego, "Reverend Swami," is used to illustrate the regressive
race, class and gender caricatures celebrated within the talk-show circuit
— specifically that of Jerry Springer.
skett?
Canada, 2001 - silent, 4 minutes / video
"Skett":
A West Indian term for a slack, easy woman. A silent, experiential short
looking at the impact of fatherlessness on female sexual compulsion.
(Uses excerpts from Jonetta Rose Barras' book Whatever
Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black
Women.)
I Call Myself
Canada, 2001, 2.5 minutes / video
Against
the backdrop of the New 2 Live Crew videos, this video streeter begs
the question: What does "woman" mean to the average male hip-hop
consumer, promoter, DJ and MC?