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I Make a Video Every Day
→ Minute Movies
→ Minute Movies at Millennium Film Workshop
→ Tending to the Archive Workshop
Ongoing Forever Projects
→ They have a name for girls like me. film
→ They have a name for girls like me. flat films
Video + Film + Art I  Made Recently
→ 1000 Waters suite of videos
→ Portland Diary Summit community event
→ “Blank Cassette” music video
→  Artist on Artist: Julie Perini on On Kawara talk
→  We Do wedding art show
Anti-Authoritarian Media for the Community
→  It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History
→  It Did Happen Here
→  The Gentleman Bank Robber: The Life Story of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter rita bo brown
→   Arresting Power: Resisting Police Violence in Portland, Oregon
Psychedelic Video + Film I Made During COVID
→  Bingo Cheetah
→  Music videos for Grand Style Orchestra
→  Alley Bath: Spring
→  Alley Bath: Fall
Video + Film + Art I Made Not Long Ago
→  The Hills Are Alive flat film
→  Portland Summer 2017 flat film
Video + Film + Art I Made Awhile Ago
→  BIG FILM installation
→  and much more!

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I am a filmmaker, daily videomaker, diary keeper, community-based media maker, artistic descendent of time-bending mentors like Tony Conrad, product of the suburbs of New York City and DIY culture of the 90s. My involvement with the post-9/11 “War on Terror” spurred my work with prison and police abolitionist movements. I am the recipient of numerous grants, awards, and residencies and I exhibit work in theaters, community spaces, galleries, campgrounds, storefronts, the sides of bridges, and many other venues.  I see movies in actual movie theaters. I like old cameras. I eat pancakes at a diner at least once a week. Originally from Poughkeepsie, New York, I earned an MFA from the Department of Media Study at the University at Buffalo, and a BS in Communication from Cornell University. I am currently a Professor of Art at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon. 

Reach out to talk about film, art, diaries and more: julieperini@gmail.com

Arresting Power is available through Kanopy. To purchase an institutional or personal copy, contact: screenings@collectiveeye.org

To book The Gentleman Bank Robber film: gentlemanbankrobber@gmail.com



Relational Filmmaking: A Manifesto
           
Relational filmmakers do not make films about people.
Relational filmmakers make films with people.
Relational filmmakers do not interview subjects.
Relational filmmakers have conversations with other people.                
Relational filmmakers do not make films for unknown audiences.
Relational filmmakers make films for their friends and neighbors.
Relational filmmakers do not know what the final film will look like.    
Relational filmmakers make formal decisions that address the aesthetic, ethical, technical, and personal problems encountered throughout the making of the film.    
Relational filmmakers do not adhere to established modes or conventions.
Relational filmmakers make films that are abstract, factual, and fictional, all at once.
Relational filmmakers do not fuck around with these tools of representation and power.    
Relational filmmakers use their tools to experiment with new ways of being and to emancipate new forms of subjectivity.        
       
Relational filmmakers believe that reality is the consequence of what we do together. Their films carry and conduct traces of this belief. Relational films are co- created through careful and playful interrogations of the roles performed by the people and materials involved with the film’s production and reception: artists, subjects, passers-by, audiences, environments, ideas, and things.
               
Written By Julie Perini
while in Edinboro, Pennsylvania
September 2009

Julie Perini is an artist and filmmaker.