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      <image:caption>"Untitled #2" Mixed media (DvCam, Super8mm, Quicktime) 65min, ©2009 with Robert Martin, Judy Bauerlein, Joan Westmoreland, Leland Miller music by Kristofer Towne, Mike Hams, David Hurley</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Free Land (2009) is a personal historical documentary feature that traces my immediate family's experience with poverty to the forced Cherokee relocation in the 1800s.  The film includes archival media, creative writing, dramatic reenactments of historical documents as well as family artifacts, recordings and interviews. Free Land deconstructs the myth of America as a “free land” by showing that it was built at the expense of freedom and land rights of indigenous people and continues to build off the disenfranchised.  </image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Bus Transfer" Digital Video, Super8mm, 55min, ©2000</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"The Son" Digital Video, Super8mm, 55min, ©2000</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Kathe" Digital Video, Super8mm, 55min, ©2000</image:caption>
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      <image:title>AKA Kathe - a.k.a. Kathe</image:title>
      <image:caption>"Kathe" Digital Video, Super8mm, 55min, ©2000</image:caption>
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      <image:title>AKA Kathe - a.k.a. Kathe</image:title>
      <image:caption>"The Barber" Digital Video, Super8mm, 55min, ©2000  </image:caption>
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      <image:title>AKA Kathe - a.k.a. Kathe</image:title>
      <image:caption>"The Barber" Digital Video, Super8mm, 55min, ©2000  </image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction Shorts - The Long Distance Operator</image:title>
      <image:caption>"July 4th, 2011" HDCam, 17m, ©2012 with John Armenta sound mix by Theron Patterson music by Dave Hurley and Theron Patterson made for the feature omnibus documentary "Far From Afghanistan" ©2012</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Wires" HDCam, 17m, ©2012 with John Armenta sound mix by Theron Patterson music by Dave Hurley and Theron Patterson</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction Shorts - Monsoon St.,'77</image:title>
      <image:caption>"Mirror" 16mm, 14minutes, ©2006 with Daeg Faerch and Mickey Faerch cinematography by Maritza Alvarez sound design and mix by Theron Patterson</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Dancing" 16mm, 14min, ©2006 with Daeg Faerch and Mickey Faerch cinematography by Maritza Alvarez sound design and mix by Theron Patterson</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Remembering" 16mm, 14min, ©2006 with Mickey Faerch and Daeg Faerch cinematography by Maritza Alvarez sound design and mix by Theron Patterson</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction Shorts - a little ballad</image:title>
      <image:caption>"Looking" 16mm, 7.5m, ©1997  with Olivia Martin and Haroldee cinematography by Mike Plante &amp; Theron Patterson sound mix by Craig Smith</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Jumping" 16mm short, 7.5min, ©1997 with Haroldee &amp; Olivia Martin cinematography by Mike Plante and Theron Patterson sound mix by Craig Smith</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Sweeping" 16mm, 7.5m, ©1997 with Haroldee and Olivia Martin cinematography by Mike Plante &amp; Theron Patterson sound mix by Craig Smith</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction Shorts - a little ballad</image:title>
      <image:caption>"Hands" 16mm, 7.5min, ©1997 with Haroldee and Olivia Martin cinematography by Mike Plante and Theron Patterson sound mix by Craig Smith</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Fiction Shorts - Monsoon St.,'77</image:title>
      <image:caption>with Daeg &amp; Mickey Faerch</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>"Mirror" 16mm, 14minutes, ©2006 with Daeg Faerch and Mickey Faerch cinematography by Maritza Alvarez sound design and mix by Theron Patterson</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>with Daeg &amp; Mickey Faerch</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-03-09</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Nonfiction Shorts - Coast Redwoods</image:title>
      <image:caption>©2021, 4min, HDCam, clr/snd 2020 was the worst year for California's national parks that house some of the most majestic and oldest trees in the world. More than 4million acres of national parks were destroyed by fires caused by climate change and over-development. Among those losses was several thousand acres of the remaining ancient Coast Redwoods. I shot this visual in 2013 as I migrated from Southern California to my new home in Seattle. If I were to make the return trip, much of those trees will no longer be there.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nonfiction Shorts - Seattle Freeway Revolt</image:title>
      <image:caption>©2020 HDCam/Mixed Media, Black &amp; White, Color, 31min This is an edited version of the feature essay documentary Ramps to Nowhere (2019) made for educational purposes and to be freely accessed through the UW Special Collections (link to the film is coming soon). Brief Synopsis In the 1950s, the plan for Seattle was to build the densest network of freeways in the world. It would have displaced thousands, especially the poor and people of color. Over the next two decades a broad-based coalition of communities came together and stopped a majority of freeways going through their city. Testimonies from 50 years ago are juxtaposed with interviews of the activists who participated in the freeway revolt giving a picture of what Seattle could have been had the people not stood up to the Highway Lobby and their representatives.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nonfiction Shorts - Cuba, Cine Adentro</image:title>
      <image:caption>13min clr/snd Mixed Media. ©2015 Made for and with eastern Cuban audiences during my travel to Eastern Cuba to share my work in small communities as part of the program Closing Distances/Cerrando Distancias by America’s Media Initiative. There I screened two of my films about American poverty, displacement, and racial and gender inequities in America--Free Land and Mother’s Heritage. During this tour, I engaged in spirited Q&amp;A sessions with Cuban audiences in the towns of Bayamo, San Pablo de Yao, Guantanamo, and Baracoa. The intimate spaces and conversations about and with those films were conducted inside people’s homes, backyards, and cinemas built in the 1950s. Cuba, Cine Adentro (2015) is the film I made for the Cubans I had met to reflect back my experience of our exchange.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nonfiction Shorts - Love, Minda</image:title>
      <image:caption>3.5minutes, Super8mm, ©2003</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nonfiction Shorts - Mother's Heritage</image:title>
      <image:caption>11minutes, Analog Video, Super8mm ©1996  </image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nonfiction Shorts - Coast Redwoods</image:title>
      <image:caption>©2021, HDCam, Clr/Snd, 4min To be released on Earth Day</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nonfiction Shorts - Cine Adentro</image:title>
      <image:caption>"Untitled #1" HDcam, 13min, ©2016</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Nonfiction Shorts - Love, Minda</image:title>
      <image:caption>3.5min, Super8mm, ©2003  </image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Video and Super8mm, 11min, ©1995  </image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Video and Super8mm, 11min, ©1995 Mother's Heritage tells the story of my mother’s untimely death. In her absence, her story is told through the recollections of her family who discuss the many challenges she faced during her life.       </image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2021-04-28</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Ramps to Nowhere - The Highway Act</image:title>
      <image:caption>The 1956 Highway Act provided funds to states and cities to build freeways and highways. States got 90% funding from the federal government to build freeways and city government got 50%. The freeway flow of funds to road building transformed cities throughout America in the 1960s.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Ramps to Nowhere - The Highway Act</image:title>
      <image:caption>The 1956 Highway Act provided funds to states and cities to build freeways and highways. States got 90% funding from the federal government to build freeways and city government got 50%. The freeway flow of funds to road building transformed cities throughout America in the 1960s.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Ramps to Nowhere - Ramps to Nowhere</image:title>
      <image:caption>65min, Color/BW, Mixed Media, ©2019 Trailer to film https://vimeo.com/311577847/21acf736aa photo is a still from the film. Through the collage of composited aerial photographs, maps, and archival footage of actual and imagined construction zones with a multi-layered soundtrack of voices, Ramps to Nowhere illustrates how citizen activism interrupted land use and public policy. The films’ claims build on each other through my use of compositing of up to twelve images at a time. Each composite gives a unique representation of land or people, and through the ghost-layering of these combined images, new possibilities surface with regard to visualizing relationships between state violence and land use. Camerawork, in other words, includes both videographic records that I recorded recently, and the creative reuse of stills and moving images recorded by others in the more distant past. It is partly about co-presence, but also about strategies for exceeding that in a composited image. In this film, image and audio compositing enables makers and audiences to engage with a topography of historical representations, providing access to overlapping and converging truths.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Film is temporarily available for free here and on Cinemad Online site and will eventually be housed in public archives.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2023-02-07</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Director Reel - Ramps to Nowhere</image:title>
      <image:caption>In the late 1960s, when plans were unveiled for a dense network of freeways in Seattle, an unlikely alliance of people formed to stop them. This experimental documentary investigates the ghostly remains of those roads to unearth a triumphant story of citizen activism.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In the late 1960s, when plans were unveiled for a dense network of freeways in Seattle, an unlikely alliance of people formed to stop them. This experimental documentary investigates the ghostly remains of those roads to unearth a triumphant story of citizen activism.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Director Reel - Cuba, Cine Adentro</image:title>
      <image:caption>13min, HDCam, ©2015 I was invited by Alex Halkin, director of the America’s Media Initiative (AMI) to travel to Eastern Cuba to share my work in small communities as part of the program Closing Distances/Cerrando Distancias. There I screened two of my films about American poverty, displacement, and racial and gender inequities in America--Free Land and Mother’s Heritage. During this tour, I engaged in spirited Q&amp;A sessions with Cuban audiences in the towns of Bayamo, San Pablo de Yao, Guantanamo, and Baracoa. The intimate spaces and conversations about and with those films were conducted inside people’s homes, backyards, and cinemas built in the 1950s. Cuba, Cine Adentro (2015) is the film I made for the Cubans I had met to reflect back my experience of our exchange. They shared their responses through emails, letters, and one group even wrote and performed an original song for me. Through the mode of personal exchange with the community, I sought to collaboratively activate a transnational line of communication, while also collectively identifying the impacts of national policies on personal experiences of living on and through the land. What’s more, the film text and its circulation illuminates the critical role of the cinema in forging community.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>17min, clr/snd/mixed media, ©2012 I was invited to contribute a segment to the omnibus experimental feature documentary Far From Afghanistan (2012) that was organized and edited by filmmaker, educator, curator, and critic, John Gianvito. Inspired by the French new wave omnibus documentary Loin du Vietnam (Far From Vietnam, 1967) by Chris Marker, Far From Afghanistan unites politically-progressive experimental US filmmakers and Afghan journalists to bring awareness to U.S. policy, its military surveillance complex, and its involvement in the longest war in US history. While making my segment, The Long Distance Operator, I aimed to provide Americans with a way to think about their own distance from the on-going wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Placing the testimony of U.S. soldier, Ethan McCord-- who was on the ground at the scene of the Apache Helicopter “Collateral Murder” incident-- in the context of the pilot’s screens (that were made available on Wikileaks by Chelsea Manning), I came to see parallels between the visual technologies of war and the visual and affective impression of these wars from a civilian perspective. I worked closely with the actors, all of whom were war veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, to explore their emotions associated with using drone technology. As a whole, the omnibus film project enabled me to gain experience working with others to develop a collective argument through our individual works.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>63min, Mixed Media, ©2009 Free Land is a personal experimental documentary feature that traces my immediate family's experience with poverty to the forced Cherokee relocation in the 1800s. The film includes archival media, creative writing, dramatic reenactments of historical documents as well as family artifacts, recordings and interviews. Free Land deconstructs the myth of America as a “free land” by showing that it was built at the expense of freedom and land rights of indigenous people and continues to operate at the expense of the disenfranchised.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Director Reel - Monsoon St.,'77</image:title>
      <image:caption>13min, clr/snd, 16mm, ©2006 Monsoon St., ‘77 tells the story of a day in the life of a tomboy, Tina, who finds escapism in the rural desert of Tucson, Arizona. To compensate for her unhappy surroundings, Tina lives in a rich imaginative world. Her distracted mother continually rebuffs her until the late evening when the mother forces Tina to look at her bleak reality and recognize the ultimate inadequacy of her fantasy life. with Daeg Faerch and Mickey Faerch written, directed, and edited by Minda J. Martin cinematography by Maritza Alvarez sound design by Minda Martin and Theron Patterson sound mix by Theron Patterson</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Director Reel - Love, Minda</image:title>
      <image:caption>3.5min, Super8mm, ©2003 In this experimental short film, I show the trailer where my mother died as the landscape for a soundtrack that speaks about the difficulty in letting go of an attachment to an old lover while maintaining a friendship. The formal strategy, a back and forth montage technique, describes the obsessive mind of the main character.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Director Reel - AKA Kathe</image:title>
      <image:caption>55min, Mixed Media, ©2000 written, filmed, edited, and directed by Minda J. Martin In this documentary, I focused on the murder of a childhood acquaintance in my hometown Tucson, Arizona and the conflicting challenges she faced in her life as a sex worker, mother and someone battling a debilitating drug habit and poverty. I chose this subject at the time the media coverage of the murder only represented the sensational and dark side of her life and violent death and not the complicated and loving life she had led. By focusing on the details that led up to Kathe’s death, I drew a more nuanced portrait that sought to recuperate and humanize Kathe. I also critiqued the judicial system, the police force, and the easy availability of guns for the roles they played in both my mother and Kathe’s life and death</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>8min, 16mm, ©1997 with Olivia Martin &amp; Haroldee written, directed, and edited by Minda J. Martin cinematography by Mike Plante sound mix by Craig Smith A personal film that details the differing perspectives of a mother and her daughter who both utilize the radio as a tool for escapism.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>11min, Video/Super8mm, ©1996 I began my career as a filmmaker making personal films. I took to the camera as a political act to represent the kinds of people I grew up with, working poor large white family in the southwest. I also sought to understand my life experiences. My first film, Mother’s Heritage (1996) tells the story of my mother’s untimely death from an accidental gun shot wound. In her absence, her story is told through the recollections of her family who discuss the many challenges she faced during her life. The camera/subject relation in the film shows my father up close with frontal lighting that highlights his premature aging. In between his interviews is silence and various voices of family members underneath family archival footage.</image:caption>
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