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1000 Waters

series of five videos // duration and dimension vary // 2025

“What I find remarkable about this series is the infinite potential of an artist’s personal archive or image bank. Through the 1000 Waters series, Perini recycles images of water, expanding meaning and visual impact and embodying the unpredictability and multitudinous, regenerative essence of water. Considering this project began over a decade ago, Perini’s growth as an artist is on full display.” - from “1000 Waters: Julie Perini’s Personal Hydrosphere” as reviewed by Elizabeth Lowe for Millennium Film Journal, issue 80: Strata, Fall 2024
1000 Waters is a suite of videos looking closely at the element of water. All of the shots in 1000 Waters are culled from my archive of daily video shooting with a consumer camera. Since April 1, 2011, I have been shooting a single-take, 60-second video each day, called a Minute Movie. I recently organized the Minute Movies into a massive database of over 5,000 shots. About 20% of the shots in the archive contain water in the form of streams, lakes, the ocean, fountains, waterfalls, bath tubs, sinks, rain, hot springs, and more. Using video collage and color keying techniques, I created four short videos and one longer compilation video that chronologically reviews all of the shots. When I feel disconnected from myself, loved ones, or the Earth, I find it helpful to remember that water is relentless in its efforts to connect. Water is in constant motion, changing and transforming, linking everything to everything else on this planet and beyond. 

1000 Waters (Oceans & Friends)
Flip camera video and other digital video, 4 minutes & 14 seconds, 2023


1000 Waters (Hot Springs)
Flip camera video and other digital video, 4 minutes & 22 seconds, 2023



1000 Waters (Dogs & Falls & John)
Flip camera video and other digital video, 7 minutes & 33 seconds, 2025
1000 Waters (River. Moss. Heron)
Flip camera video and other digital video,3 minutes & 13 seconds, 2023


1000 Waters (1000 Waters)
Flip camera video and other digital video, 50 minutes & 20 seconds, 2024
still images from the videos

still from 1000 Waters (River. Moss. Heron)
still from 1000 Waters (Dogs & Falls & John)
still from 1000 Waters (1000 Waters)
still from 1000 Waters (Hot Springs)
still from 1000 Waters (Oceans & Friends)
screenings & exhibitions
2025: Panorama Film Festival in Portland, Oregon
2024: “Strata: Six Recent Films in Millennium Film Journal,” Close-Up Film Centre, London, England
2024: “Strata: Six Recent Films in Millennium Film Journal,” Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York
2024: Experiments in Cinema Film Festival
*with panel discussion with Lynne Sachs, moderated by M. Freeman
2023: South Sound Experimental Film Festival
2023: Sou’wester Movie Bus exhibition, curated by Nikki Cormaci, July-September 2023

1000 Waters videos on view in the Movie Bus at the Sou’wester Resort in 2023.
1000 Waters videos first screened in the Movie Bus at the Sou’wester Resort, Seaview, Washington from July-September 2023.
1000 Waters (Hot Springs) at Portland’s beautiful Bagdad Theater during the first ever Panorama Film Festival in April 2025, programmed by Melina Coumas.



Julie Perini is a filmmaker and artist in Portland, Oregon.