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Minute Movies at Millennium Film Workshop

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, which included several community events. The work emerged  from 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. 

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. The prints are still images from the Minute Movies archive, one image to represent each of the 5,000 shots in the first ten years of 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 detail
Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 detail
Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 detail
Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 detail
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 detail
Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021
11’ 11” x 10’ 7.5”, digital prints with wallpaper paste, 2024
Minute Movies Wall: 2011-2021 detail

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.