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Currently located: Albuquerque, New Mexico
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WINTER-SPRING 2012
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February-March ___ London + Cumbria/Lake District, England
... my sister's wedding.. some shows in London...additional shooting for Wonder Chamber no 2... stay tuned..
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Submitting my feature documentary 'Nowa Cumig : The Drum Will Never Stop' to film festivals. (scroll down to October 2011 for more details)
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A series of music videos called 'The Cinematic Clouds' (working title), videos for the next EP and a dance reel for painter, b-boy and hiphop instrumentalist Cloud Face
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Re-entering pre-production of my next film - Desert Haiku. First on the menu, doing the watercolours of the characters, and getting started on costume design. And maybe before all that, start a Kickstarter project. Also currently writing a proposal for this film to be shown at ISEA2012, the International Symposium of Electronic Arts which is to be held next year in the U.S., and in Albuquerque specifically. How lucky we are !!
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WINTER 2011-2012
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December-January ___ Montreal, Quebec & Los Angeles, SoCal
... home for Christmas.. L.A. for NYE...
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November-December ___ Albuquerque, New Mexico
... Finishing touches on 5 different films this month, including the upcoming Le Chat Lunatique music video for 'Demonic Lovely' (directed, d.p.ed and edited by yours truly, with the help of several cameramen/women, assistants, photographers, extras and dancers). Mo' details coming soon ! But it looks like we got January 20th as our official release date, set at Low Spirits for one big party :))
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AUTUMN 2011
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October 5-17, Santa Monica/Los Angeles, California
... Post-production gig with Evolvement Productions, on a feature-lenght 'living portrait' with a Swedish client.
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October 17-24, Tokyo, Japan
...First screening of 'Nowa Cumig : The Drum Will Never Stop' at the Sumida headquarters on Omote Sando, Tokyo, Japan. The film tells the story of Dennis Banks, his three historical marches - 'The Longest Walk' (1978, 2008 and 2011), as well as the movement for justice, Mother Earth, the protection of culture, tradition and sacred sites, which have been (and always will be) the essence of why the drum will never stop.
Go to www.longestwalk.org for more info on the Walks, or grab a copy of 'Ojibwe Warrior', Dennis' autobiography as published by Oklahoma Press.
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SUMMER 2011
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July 7-18, Montréal (La Cinémathèque Québécoise) and New York City (Pennington Gallery in Soho, CNM Arts in Tribeca)
... FIRST TOUR !! CloudFace and 8h51 Digital Bohemia present... An evening of VJ/DJ sonic and video explorations with images from our beloved Southwest, from desert spaces to grass dancers, eclipses of the moon, Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) parades, with aquatic poetry fuled by the sounds of CloudFace's first album 'Secrets of the Invisible'.. and so much more..
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June ___ Montréal, Québec
... International Jazz Festival, Myriam Tapp's sculpture opening in St-Jean-Port-Joli, picking up a vibe (as in the musical instrument) to be driven back to New Mexico and more TBD
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June ___ Pine Ridge, South Dakota
... special time of the year with BFF.. a sacred vacation, to say the least ;)
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August ___ Leech Lake, Minnesota, followed by North East Coast, USA (6 nations territory)
... Final Great Anishinabe Canoe Race on Leech Lake, Minnesota (which I will be filming), followed by the 2011 Mother Earth Tour throughout 6 nation territories with Dennis Banks (A.I.M., Nowa Cumig Institute) and the Japanese delegation of Sumida, Tokyo
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SPRING 2011
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February 14th ___ San Diego, California
... Sunrise ceremony on the beach and official beginning of the Longest Walk 3 (www.longestwalk3.com)
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March ___ Albuquerque, New Mexico
... The wildest month of my life. Simultaneous post-production of 4 films, plus video set design and preparation of a lecture to be given at local university. Details to follow on all these ventures. For now, please pray for my utmost focus and efficiency ;)
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April 20-29___ Montréal, Québec
... Power visit : maple syrup run, paperwork organizing, family visiting
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April 29-May 1 ___ Albuquerque, New Mexico
... April 29th, 30th and May 1st : please come to VSA North Fourth Theater for the premiere of Ntozake Shange's ''For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf'', directed by Regina Dawley. I did the video set design for it, a first in the expansion of 8h51 Digital Bohemia and loved both the process and the result. Please visit the theater's website for bookings. The Friday night show (April 29th) is already sold out.
www.vsartsnm.org
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PAST EVENTS :
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Fall 2010 ___ Tokyo, Japan (FIRST SOLO SHOW)
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