Minute Movies installation

media installation with video and digital prints // September - October 2024
Millennium Film Workshop, New York, New York // with support from Film Diary NYC

opening reception on September 20, 2024 (Paige Sarlin center, John Frentress right)

Julie Perini

Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 detail

Minute Movies: The Daily Diary Video Work of Julie Perini was an exhibition of video and installation work, and several community events. The work emerged out of my long-term daily practice of creating a 60-second, single-take video each day, called a Minute Movie. In 2021, partly in response to the outpouring of personal storytelling and general introspection that emerged during the early years of the COVID-19 pandemic, I began to catalog the Minute Movies, creating a custom, searchable database. While cataloging my piles of Minute Movies, I taped thumbnails from the videos to the walls of my studio, as a way to get immersed in the Minute Movies world and to help me see connections between shots in this three-dimensional way. During a zoom call with Sage and Saint from Film Diary NYC, Sage saw my walls covered in video frames, and invited me to exhibit a version of this work at Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn, New York. I was excited to take on the challenge of creating an exhibition about the Minute Movies, in my home state of New York.

The centerpiece of the exhibition was the Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021, which was a 11’ 11” x 10’ 7.5” wall covering, made of digital prints and adhered with wallpaper paste. The wall covering was a huge collage of still images from the Minute Movies archive, one image to represent each of the 5,000 shots in the Minute Movies collection. Labelled with the date, I arranged the images in chronological order. I used all of the frames from a single video, Minute Movie (January 23, 2019), to create the border around the other shots.

Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 documentation video

Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 detail

Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 with Minute Movie (January 23, 2019)M

Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 detail

Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021
11’ 11” x 10’ 7.5”, digital prints with wallpaper paste, 2024

Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 detail

Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021
2024, video stills and digital prints
11’ 11” x 10’ 7.5”

Julie Perini during install of the Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021

promotional material for Minute Movies exhibition

a screening of Minute Movies videos took place after the opening reception, September 20, 2024

De-installation of Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021

Thank you: Max Swanson, John Frentress, Saint Piñero and Sage Ó Tuama of Film Diary NYC, Joe Wakeman of Millennium Film Workshop, Carol Parkinson of Harvestworks, my friends and family.

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