Playa Artist  Residency
January 16 - February 10, 2025
Summer Lake, Oregon

I spent a beautiful month in Oregon’s Outback, working on writing and video. 


Aritst/curator Saint Piñero lists Minute Movies: The Daily Diary Video Work of Julie Perini exhibition for Screen Slate’s Best Movies of 2024: First Viewings & Discoveries list!



1000 Waters screens around the world

Selections from the 1000 Waters suite of videos have screened as part of several programs associated with the release of Millennium Film Journal #80: Strata. Curated by senior editor Grahame Weinbren, Jonathan Ellis, and Vincent Warne

Millennium Film Journal #80: Strata
School of Visual Arts
New York City

Strata: Six Recent Films in the Millennium Film Journal

December 5, 2024
Close-Up Film Centre
London, England

Millennium Film Journal #80: Strata
November 6, 2024
Anthology Film Archives
New York City

Millennium Film Journal reviews the 1000 Waters suite of videos
“1000 Waters: Julie Perini’s Personal Hydrosphere” by Elizabeth Lowe in Millennium Film Journal #80: Strata,  Fall 2024.


Minute Movies
solo exhibition of site-specific installation and videos

September 20 - October 6, 2024

Opening reception: Friday, September 20, 2024
7pm with screening at 8:30pm

Tours/Gallery Hours with the Artist: Saturday, October 5, 2024

Tending to the Archive
Workshop: Sunday, October 6, 2024

Millennium Film Workshop
167 Wilson Ave
Brooklyn, New York

Workspace Residency at Harvestworks Media Art Center
August - September 2024
New York, New York

Murals Across America 
This summer my husband John Frentress & I drove across the USA. We made longs stops in Iowa and Pennsylvania to visit family. We transform the sides of a shed and a garage into works of art. Check them out!


Frentress Family Mural - July 4, 2024 - Manchester, Iowa

Perini Family Mural - July 29, 2024 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Recent Screenings & Events

1000 Waters (Oceans & Friends) video screened at: 

Experiments in Cinema Film Festival 2024 (Albuquerque, NM)
Film Diary NYC Festival 2024 (New York, NY)
South Sound Experimental Film Festival 2023 (Seattle, WA)

The Gentleman Bank Robber: The Life Story of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter rita bo brown
screened as part of prison abolition conference and another abolitionist gathering in Europe:

November 18, 2024
Toulouse, France

October 23, 2024
Geneva, Switzerland


Portland Diary Summit
February 24, 2024
I coordinated a day of art & gatherings for anyone who considers journaling and daily life documenting to be therapeutic, sacred, liberatory, a path to the unconscious or otherwise of interest. Learn more about it.


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