Testing the Undertow
(2007, 12:54, 16mm on digital video)
A personal examination of class, pride, and identity as it has played out on the landscape of Marin County, California from the 1980s to the present. M.F.A. thesis film, University of Iowa.
Screenings and awards:
Thesis film screening, Bijou Theater, Iowa City, IA, 2007
Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX, 2007
NextFrame: UFVA’s Touring Festival of International Student Film + Video, various locations, 2007
Madcat Women’s International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, 2007
Bearded Child Film Festival, Grand Rapids, MN, 2007
Visualized Film Festival, Denver, CO, 2007
Iowa City Experimental Film Festival, Iowa City, IA, 2007
Flicker Chapel Hill, Carrboro, NC, 2007
Experimental Award nominee, Oxford Film Festival, Oxford, MS, 2008
Honorable mention, Experimental Category, Fargo Film Festival, Fargo, ND, 2008
“The Aesthetic Pedagogy of Place: Iowa Experimental Filmmaking,” Society of Cinema and Media Studies conference, Philadelphia, PA, 2008
Hearts and Minds Film Festival, Dover, DE, 2008
Experiments in Cinema V 3.0, Albuquerque, NM, 2008
ArtsFest Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA, 2008
First Runner-up, Festival of the Arts, Grand Rapids, MI, 2008
New Kingston Film Festival, New Kingston, NY, 2008
Antimatter Underground Film Festival, Victoria, BC, Canada, 2008
Washougal International Film Festival, Washougal, WA, 2008
Poppy Jasper Film Festival, Morgan Hill, CA, 2008
Florida Experimental Film Festival, Gainesville, FL, 2009
Michigan Film Festival, Grand Rapids, MI, 2009
University Film and Video Association annual conference, New Orleans, LA, 2009


