Curated Series and Exhibitions
Programing films for public exhibition has been an important and creative part of my practice. I have curated dozens of film programs and film series from coast to coast. I regularly co-curated the Alternate VisionsAvant-Garde Film/Video series and Documentary Voices at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive from 2006-2023
DEFIANCE! WOMEN'S STRUGGLE FOR REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM! Short films by Women in the Struggle for Reproductive Rights Guest Curator, Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2023
Alternative Visions film Series. Co-curator. 12 weekly programs. Avant-Garde Film Series Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive 2006-2023.
Documentary Voices co-curator 12 weekly programs, Documentary film series at Pacific Film Archive 2006-2023
Canyon Cinema at 50. “Romance and Rage Films by Women from Canyon Cinema.” Curated and lecture. Pacific Film Archive, Oct 11, 2017.
Sense and Sensuality: Bay Area Feminist Filmmaking of the 1980s. Eye on a Director: Films from Canyon Cinema. Museum of Arts and Design New York, NY. July 21, 2016
"Spiraling Time: Intermedial Conversations with Latin American Arts." Co-Organizer with Julia-Bryan-Wilson, Shannon Jackson, Natalia Brizuala, Angela Marino, International Symposium investigated time-based art practices in Latin America including performance, dance, film etc. UC Berkeley, ARC 3/2013
"Inventions & interventions: New Film & Media" at Wellesley College Monthly visiting artist series, Collins Cinema, Wellesley College. Fall/Spring 2010-11
Co-Curator: Jesters and Gestures: Performing Yiddish Culture from Silent Cinema to Avantgarde Film Pacific Film Archive Nov. 12-24, 2009
Co-Curator: Direct Engagement: Symposium on New Digital Films From Palestine & Lebanon. Pacific Film Archive & Film Studies Program UC Berkeley April 6-7/2008
Selection Committee. The Second Biennial Cinema East Film Festival of Middle Eastern Cinema, NYC, NY. November 8-15, 2007.
Eight program series of recent international documentary film/video in
conjunction with the exhibition Sebastiao Salgado: Migrations: Humanity in Transition Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL July-August 2003.
Curator "After the End of History: Artists Rethinking The Image of the Past" Visiting Artist
Lecture Series. The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Fall, 2002.
Curator/faculty advisor Visiting Media Artist series for Visual Arts Dept., U.C.S.D. 1995
1492-1992: 500 Years of Resistance: Series Celebrating the Cinema of Latin America. S.F. Cinemathque, S.CA Fall, 1992
Non-Fiction Film?? 6-program series and mini-conference,
With Marlon Riggs, Steve Fagin, Loni Ding, & Lynn Kirby. S.F. Cinematheque, Spring, 1991.
Collective for Living Cinema, N.Y. POV Personal Documentary Curated 4-program series. 1990
Channel 35 Public Access TV, Wayne, N.J. Jersey Clips Curated series of weekly one-hour TV programs 1989-90
Manhattan Cable Television and national exhibitions. XCHANGE T.V. - An Inter-Americas
Video distribution & exhibition collective. N.Y., N.Y. 1984-86
San Francisco Cinematheque Curatorial Committee, 1982-1983
Floating Community Film Series: co-curated and managed with Craig Baldwin monthly screenings at various alternative galleries & cultural centers in San Francisco. 1980-1983