Phytophilia and other short films with original score

Phytophilia is a collaborative film that I worked on and contributed to, using digital scans of 16mm film sequences created using the phytography technique: plant materials soaked in developer are exposed on raw film stock and fixed. After a workshop taught by phytography inventor Karel Doing, 16mm filmmakers created these sequences. Film scan by Sam Atkinson at Lightpress. Workshop co-sponsored by Interbay Cinema Society and Northwest Film Forum.

Portland State University's Sonic Arts and Music Production's Advanced Laptop Ensemble presents Phytophilia, created in collaboration with Interbay Cinema Society and Northwest Film Forum as well as salient works focused on the personal output of advanced Laptop Ensemble members. In addition, individual filmmakers from PSU’s School of Film partnered with members of the PSU laptop ensembles to create original scores for their short films. Both PSU laptop ensembles are tied together within the collaborative work of Exquisite Corpse (cadavre exquis), an experimental work showcasing diverse personal styles informing the artists within, hybridized together in a surreal voyage of sonic grandeur.

Featuring:
—PSU School of Music Advanced Laptop Ensemble
—Interbay Cinema Society and Northwest Film Forum
—PSU School of Music Laptop Ensemble
—PSU School of Film

16 artists collaborated from a distance on a 16mm cyanotype film. I was one of them.

Our collaborative film is screening in Engauge’s program B.

Interpunct Press
2618 W. Sinto Ave, Spokane, WA

Come cap off this year’s Get Lit! Festival with readings from alumni and faculty of EWU’s MFA program in creative writing. This year we are celebrating the successes of program director and professor Gregory Spatz, along with four distinguished alumni who have all published new books in the last year. Spatz is the author of many novels and short story collections including Inukshuk, Half as Happy, and the forthcoming linked collection of stories and novellas, What Could Be Saved. 

Rob Carney is the author of five books of poems, most recently The Book of Sharks and 88 Maps, which was named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. 
Ellie Kozlowski’s first book Best Tent Camping Washington was released in 2018. They are currently researching their next book, Washington Day Trips by Theme (forthcoming from AdventureKEEN, spring 2021). 
Laura Read is the author of The Chewbacca on Hollywood Boulevard Reminds Me of You and Instructions for My Mother’s Funeral. Her second full-length collection, Dresses from the Old Country, was published by BOA in 2018. 
Wendy J. Fox is the author of The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories, which was the inaugural winner of Press 53's short fiction competition, as well as the novel The Pull of It, and the forthcoming novel If the Ice Had Held selected for the grand prize manuscript by Santa Fe Writers Project. 

AWP 2019
Portland, OR

There are times when words are not enough—when the image wants to remain an image, when the body is best described by the motion of the body itself. Using schematics, paper cutouts, aerial acrobatics, embroidery, and film, these writers genre-bend beyond poetry and prose to create a conversation between elements on and off the page. Panelists will show and read examples of their work, discuss their process and techniques, and engage in a Q&A session.

I am moderating and presenting on this panel, featuring Kathryn Smith, Oliver Baez Bendorf, Emily Van Kley, and Dustin Parsons.

Get Lit! Festival
Eastern Washington University

Queer-identifying authors will read their work and discuss writers who have had the most influence on them—as writers and as queer women. 

I’m reading and speaking on this panel with Aileen Keown Vaux, Elissa Ball, and Liz Rognes (moderated by Molly Priddy).

Central Washington University

This event is part of the international #WritersResist movement, which seeks to "re-inaugurate our commitment to the fundamental principles of democracy."

From the WritersResist website: "Throughout the US and in other countries, writers are organizing their own Writers Resist events on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, January 15, 2017. Invited speakers will read from a curated selection of diverse writers’ voices that speak to the ideals of Democracy and free expression. The public is encouraged to attend."

I am reading alongside Xavier Cavazos, Mark Auslander, Stella Moreno, Taneum Bambrick, Katharine Whitcomb, Dawn Pichon Barron, Haley Lindsley, and Maya Jewell Zeller.