Swing
NEA brings artists to rural Colorado
Thanks to a great project I was in Burlington working with the children of migrant workers. I’d love to say “farmworkers” like my hero, Cesar Chavez, but the migrant population often works the slaughterhouses and meat packing plants. Watching boys pantomime their fathers slaughtering pigs and cows was straight of [...]
Inside/Outside
Inside/Outside/North/South
Watch this documentary about an amazing international art project. 9 works of art were made by high school students. The students were selected from three different countries, Mexico, Bolivia and the U.S. The students were from two diverse neighborhoods in one city (here, it was North High School from Denver and Columbine High School from [...]
Ovideo 2.0 (health “care”)
Ovideo 2.0
With the heated debates regarding health care, Ovideo couldn’t resist reconnecting with Merika in this series of three video “letters”. Watch!
To read more about the Ovideo series, click here.
Denver Copwatch
Art and Activism
The DNC’08. The most exciting thing about it was the Rage reunion, no? There were hours and hours of footage shot by Copwatch members from Denver and Berkeley, most of it boring until the police instigated panic and fear followed by a mass arrest. Denver spent a lot of money, more than any [...]
Arts in Hard Times
How have the Arts helped you get through hard times?
This was the question asked to over thirty advocates of Colorado arts. Artists, teachers and advocates joined forces to knock on the Colorado legislature’s door in ‘09 and remind them that the fifth largest business cluster in Colorado is the Arts.
Watch the video!!
Purple Twilight
Purple Twilight
She was tumbleweed tall and free. Prairie. Wild.
Laughs bloom, boobs, soon desire fills her empty lot.
Wind blows.
He was a grocery store, wide shiny aisles, broad flat floors.
He was from a family of distributors hard to ignore.
Before they knew it they couldn’t help but do it to it.
Knolls and nooks made him warm. Time.
He smoothed [...]
1,000 Year Old Sex Goddess
Isn’t she lovely?
I fell in love with her when she was behind glass. I was doing a video promo for the Museo in Denver. She was there, immobile, yearning to get out and dance. A few months later, I was able to work with the collection. I shot everything against blue screen (that is, blue [...]
Vegas Beauty Mark
Vegas Beauty Mark
The road ahead like the road behind
yellow middle faded lines,
on the side, us, car, hood up,
sky blue prayers.
It wasn’t suppossed to go down the way it did.
Cookie left, Constance dead,
the taste of Pill still in my mouth
and Vegas, beauty mark drowned.
Lacrimose mascara gets itself together on the ground.
What do you want, she asks, [...]
Story of My Life
Story of My Life
I’m really attached to this film. I wanted to make Kieslowski’s Double Life of Veronique but in five minutes and with a finger puppet. I first imagined the movie in the declinated light of a classroom window. I was filming an after school arts workshop. Betsy Tobin was making finger puppets. The [...]
Ovideo
It’s all about love
Inspired by Ovid’s The Amores.
“All lovers speak in quotes,” says Alisson Sharrock, a Reader in Classics at the University of Manchester. She continues, “All poets speak in quotes.” The images of the Ovideo series are quotes. It is comprised entirely of scenes downloaded from the net, specifically, love scenes. More specifically, porn. [...]
Tilton’s Aftertones
Jae Ram Arts recently hired me to edit ten+ year old concert footage! First, we had to convert the Beta SP tapes. Anyone remember tape out there? The beautiful footage was shot by Denver camera operator Max Watkins. Despite the long intro there’s a great solo by Denver Jazz guitarist Mitch Chmara and great [...]
Indiscretion at Museo
Viewer Indiscretion Advised
A program of short films created by Cano,
screened at Museo de Las Americas
October 22nd, 2009, Denver, CO.
For further informtation go to www.museo.org.
To learn more about Viewer Indiscretion Advised,
visit the video gallery, see what folks in Denver said in Westword.