summer 2024 news & updates


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.