Torey’s 16 mm films, mausoleum and Salix, in collaboration with music by Geoffrey Lamar Wilson, were selected to be part of the Franconia 5 minutes Film Fest. The Franconia 5 Minute Film Fest – presenting films from artists in Minnesota and Wisconsin working in video art, film, documentary, animation, or experimental media. $5 submission and cash prizes – $500 First Place, $250 Second Place, $100 Third Place. September 11, starting at 9 pm - https://www.franconia.org/events-programs/film-at-franconia/
Jurors:
Xavier Vasquez (California) creates custom visual elements for live video mixing and projections for live music and performance events as is best known as a documentarian, emerging filmmaker, cinematic visual artist, and curator of video and music events in the San Diego/Tijuana region. Xavier is a graduate of SDSU, (BA in Environmental Design), Mesa College, (AS in Architecture) and former audio engineer and Media Production Specialist at KPBS Radio and Television. Currently he is the Owner of AxentLive, a Media Specialist at Culture Change Consultants, and a Principal at XavaZ Studio, as well as a freelance videographer.
Hassan Pitts (North Carolina) is a multi-media artist who primarily works with film, video, animation, sound and photography. He received his BFA from Kutztown University, and his MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University. Themes within his work deal with relational interaction played out in society at large. Hassan regularly collaborates and exhibits with artist Jennida Chase under the moniker of s/n. They have been successfully making large quantities of works for the past 12 years, including short films, video art, site-specific installations, city-wide interventions, multi-platform projects, and printed works which they’ve screened and exhibited internationally. Hassan was the Executive Director of Big Muddy Film Festival from 2015-2019. He currently teaches in the Department of Media Studies at the University of North Carolina Greensboro
Jason Eppink (New York) is an American curator, designer, and prankster. His projects emphasize participation, mischief, surprise, wonder, generosity, transgression, free culture, and anti-consumerism, and they are staged in public spaces and online as street art, urban interventions, and playful online services and hoaxes. Eppink serves as Curator of Digital Media at Museum of the Moving Image in New York City. His work at the museum revolves around participation in a variety of fields, including video games, interactive art, remix, animated GIFs, and online communities.
Ginger Shulick Porcella (Minnesota) currently serves as the Executive Director and Chief Curator of Franconia Sculpture Park. She holds an M.A. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University and a B.A. in Art History from DePaul University. She was previously the Executive Director and Chief Curator of MOCA Tucson, Executive Director of the San Diego Art Institute, and the Executive Director of Art Connects New York. She has curated critically acclaimed exhibitions such as: Cyclic with Cassils and Ron Athey; Blessed Be: Mysticism, Spirituality and the Occult in Contemporary Art; Dazzled: OMD, Memphis Design and Beyond; and Amir Fallah: Scatter my Ashes on Foreign on Lands. She is currently developing Kenny Scharf’s first touring retrospective and catalogue raisonné and is the Director of the forthcoming 4Ground: Midwest Land Art Biennial taking place across 4 states and tribal lands. She is the founder and head curator of LUMEN video and performance festival in New York as well as the 5 Minute Film Festival in San Diego and Tucson. Her exhibitions have been positively reviewed in Frieze, The New York Times, and Hyperallergic, and in 2015 she was named the “Voice of the Year” by The Voice of San Diego.
Ellen Mueller (Minnesota) (she/her/hers) has exhibited nationally and internationally as an interdisciplinary artist exploring issues related to the environment and capitalism as it affects daily life. She received her MFA from University of South Florida, and has authored several art and design textbooks.