Album (2002)

Distributed by Docurama, Best of the Fest, Vol IIFull Frame Documentary Festival DVD (2003) Available for purchase

The film uses unique archive of 8mm home movie film to create a narrative about the creation and destruction of an American family.

Juried Festivals:

• Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, Palm Springs, CA, August 2002
• Women in The Director’s Chair, Chicago, IL, March 2003
• Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL, February 2003
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham, North Carolina, April 2003

Presentations/Screenings: 

• Screen Academy Visiting Scholar Lecture, July 24, 2003, Murdoch University, Perth, Australia
• University Film and Video Association, Colorado Springs, CO, August 2000

Awards: 

• Best Documentary: Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL. February 2003
• Best Documentary, 2 nd place: Palm Springs International Festival of Short Films, Palm Springs, CA, and August 2002

Agents of Change (2004)

Available for purchase

Four innovative short films explore critical contemporary issues in American culture:

Live Transmission (2001) looks at freedom of artistic expression.

The Risk is Real (1999) is about personal power in sexual politics and health implications for American teens.

Vasa Previa (2003) is one woman's crusade to raise the standard of prenatal health care in the U.S.

A Constant Struggle (2004) highlights the never-ending crisis of hunger facing the working poor in the midst of America's plenty.

Playhouse (1999)

A three minute digital video contribution to Home , an interactive work-in-progress, contains the work of 14 artists, each contributing a different perspective on the meaning of home created by video artists Annette Barbier and Drew Browning.

• Ars Electronica Festival, CAVE, "Alive on the Grid", Linz, Austria, August, 2001
• Center for Arts and Technology, 8th Biennial Symposium for Arts and Technology, Connecticut College, New London, CT, March, 2001

• University Film and Video Association, Boston, August 1999
• Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art, Chicago, January, 1999

• Second Place, Festival Internacional de Linguagem Ektronica (FILE), Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 2000

Handmaidens (1995)

Distributed by Fanlight Productions, Boston, MA Available for purchase

This thirty-three minute documentary examines exploitation and abuse that is a “normal “ part of the work life of registered nurses in the U.S. Funded in part by grant from IMC Northwestern University.

• Women in the Director's Chair International Film &Video Festival, Chicago,1996.
• IDA Midwest International Documentary Festival,1 Chicago, 1995
• American Film Institute National Video Festival, Los Angeles, 1995
• National Social Science Association Conference, 1995

• Screening. National Women's Studies Association, St Louis, MO. June, 1997
• Through the Lens, PBS broadcast Handmaidens, WYBE, Philadelphia, Feb,1997
• Organization for the Study of Communication Language,and Gender. Sponsored by Loyola University Chicago and Northwestern University, October 16-19, 1997
• University of North Texas,"Friday Forum Series", Women's History Month, March, 1997

• First place current events-Silver State Documentary Festival, 1995
• Bronze Apple National Educational Media Awards 1996

Change of Life (1992)

An eight minute experimental narrative uses archival 8mm film to explore issues of aging and the passages of a woman's life.

• Women in the Directors Chair International Film Festival, Chicago, IL,1992
• W.O.W. Cafe, New York, 1992
• Finalist Athens Film Festival, Athens, Ohio, 1993

• Melbourne Super 8 Film Group Inc. Beyond the Rage, curated screening
• Melbourne, Australia, November 14, 2000
• Midwest Tour, Women in the Director's Chair,1993
• Change of Life, UFVA, Oshkosh, WI, August,1997

• Honorable Mention, United States Super 8 Film & Video Festival, February, 2000

When the Cat's Away (1991)

Five-minute video animation showing what our clothes do when we're not watching them.