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JOE WAKEMAN, VIDEO ARTIST, WORKS AT HIGH SPEED IN HIGH STYLE. COMBINES ABSTRACT AND AVANT-GARDE TECHNIQUE WITH POP SENSIBILITY. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF MILLENNIUM FILM WORKSHOP. ALSO A RECORDING AND PERFORMING MUSICIAN WITH GROUPS ACRYLIC GESSO, PAST: TOYZANNE, BODEGA BAY, HOLLY OVERTON AND OTHERS.
- PARTIAL LIST OF WORKS
- FEATURE FILMS
- THE SHOPLIFTERS
- (2018, 70 min.)
- A series of tableaux depicting the follies of a group of naïve Marxist would-be radicals who shout about revolution, but really just want to wear berets.
Official Selection NEWFILMMAKERS NY 2019
- THEY READ BY NIGHT!
- (2015, 104 min.)
- White knuckle all-night terror when the bad boys who read banned books invade a strange library- a cautionary tale of leather and letters.
- SHORT FILMS
- FULL MOON
- (2023, 3 min.)
- The ghosts of views of the Earth from the Moon. Rumored to star Alex Fippinger.
Shot on Expired Kodak reversal Tri-X from 1965, hand-processed by Joe Wakeman.
- KATE M
- (2023, 3 min.)
- Screen Test: Kate Mohanty, Musician. July 2023.
- MEMOIRES (PARIS VU PAR)
- (2022, 8 min.)
- Was that Fragonard? Balthus? Valloton? Laurencin? Did I shoot that, or Billy, or did Holly? Is Paris, France a real place or somewhere I dreamed or that someone filmed? I have memoires and they sometimes blur---was it Bonnard or was it us?
Official Selection FILM DIARY NYC 2.0
Official Selection FILMMAKERS COOP - NEW YEAR NEW WORKS 2023
- GOWNS
- (2022, 8 min.)
- In the haunted halls of the Jane Hotel lurk the gowns of ghosts that seek pleasure and live for death.
- IRON MAN 4
- (2022, 3 min.)
- Later that day at Snark Mansion, Tony Snark is haunted by phantoms who taunt him mercilessly for the contradictions of his double life and the hollowness of his industrious persona.
- CORNELIA/FABIAN (Takes 2 & 1)
- (2022, 5 min.)
- At a jazz party in Berlin near the end of the Weimar era, actress Cornelia tells concerned moralist Fabian about her latest UFA film role.
Special Programs 61st Annual ANN ARBOR FILM FESTIVAL
- SISTERS OF THE SWAMPLAND
- (2020, 5 min.)
- Louisiana sisters Maura and Bethany de Beauregard (Holly Overton, Eliza Diamond) meet in the swamplands by the shores of Lake Pontchartrain to scatter their ashes of their louse uncle Rick, killed by a wild boar, or so the story goes.
- "PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GLASS HOUSES"
- (2020, 4 min.)
- Franny Glass, six hours in the bath, is having trouble regaining her mantra. Her brother Zooey wants to talk her out of it altogether. Adapted (freely) from the JD Salinger novel.
- BINDLE STIFF
- (2017, 4 min.)
- A vintage glimpse into the idle romance of frontier life, through the eyes of two mysterious drifters (Sean Spada & Jordan Bell), bonding over a hill of beans, horse existentialism and floating up the river of daydreams to a sunset mesa nowhere to be found-With sequences in "Loma-Sound!" C. 1917
- THE SINS OF THE MAD LIEUTENANT
- (2017, 2 min.)
- The Duchess de Blangis (Gwynn Galitzer), The Viscount LeFevre (Jesse Katz) entertain the vain Boulevardier (Sam Michael Braverman) in their Chateau, whose violence and ennui provides them with the lark diversion of a nonsensical duel with a finale worthy of the surrealists...life is sure cheap for the idle denizens of the upper class.
- A VERNAL CIRCUMSTANCE
- (2017, 3 min.)
- Jamie Frey exercises his Chaplin charm in a foolhardy attempt to grab the attention of special guest star Holly Overton
- PEA ISLAND
- (2016, 18 min.)
- a therapeutic video diary about time spent gleaning great pleasure from doing nothing in particular. just sand and water, like (frankie) Avalon.
- NIKKI'S NIGHT IN
- (2013, 13 min.)
- Nikki eschews the boys, bars, and bitches to put on a freak show on a NIGHT IN. IT WAS A NIGHT OUT!
- WHITE LILIES
- (2012, 12 min.)
- An eerie, erotic love story about two ghosts who are still alive.
- BLOND ROSES
- (2012, 5 min.)
- Some marriages were made in heaven. This is one of them.
- EXPANDED CINEMA/PERFORMANCE WORKS
- JOE (EXPANDED)
- (2022, 55 min.)
- Performance Documentation of "Joe (Expanded)", screening and performance from July 26, 2022 at Millennium Film Workshop in Brooklyn, NY.
- PAPER DOLLS (PROJECTION)
- (2021, 35 min.)
- Live Projection-mapping performance, with Paige Johnson-Brown and audio sourced from a Teal Swan self-help video. Performance 10.23.2021 at Hull Street Cabaret Cinema, Brooklyn, NY.
- Cinestesia No. 5 (Hijack!)
- (2019, 18 min.)
- Live Video performance incorporating analog and digital video feedback, and field recording of the NYC Subway (4 Train). With Holly Overton. Performance 1.20.2019 at Hijack!, The Sheen Center, Manhattan, NY.
- Cinestesia No. 3 (Star Garden Light Show)
- (2018, 32 min.)
- Live Video performance incorporating analog video feedback, Liquid Light Oil Projections, and Live music accompaniment. With Brendan Winick and Holly Overton. Performance 6.20.2018 at h0l0, Queens, NY.
- MUSIC VIDEOS
- GOLD DIME: DENISE
- (2023, 5.5 min.)
- GOLD DIME: WASTED WANTED
- (2023, 5.5 min.)
- NITE MUSIC: I'VE GOT TO MAKE THE CALL
- (2023, 5 min.)
- SPERMCHURCH: A PUZZLE & NOT INTENDED FOR USE
- (2021, 4.5 min.)
- MPHO: NO BREAKFAST WITH ANDY
- (2020, 3 min.)
- SEAN SPADA: TAKING IT SLOW
- (2020, 3 min.)
- THE YIN YANGS: HIERONYMOUS BOX
- (2020, 2 min.)
- MARY VISION: YES IT IS
- (2019, 4 min.)
- GOLD DIME: HINDSIGHT II
- (2019, 6 min.)
- SPERMCHURCH
- (2019, 35 min.)
- SIC TIC: I WAS IN YOUR ROOM
- (2019, 4 min.)
- HOLLY OVERTON: RHONDA
- (2018, 4 min.)
- NO ICE: WE GET HIGH TOGETHER
- (2017, 4 min.)
- TOYZANNE: MAPS
- (2017, 3 min.)
- THE YIN YANGS: R.I.P. EVERYONE
- (2017, 4 min.)
- PRIMA: DIVA
- (2017, 3 min.)
- SIC TIC: ROCK WALL
- (2016, 6 min.)
- SECRET CRUSH: CANDLELIGHT
- (2016, 3 min.)
- BODEGA BAY: REALISM
- (2015, 1 min.)
- THE YIN YANGS: LIFE IN SPACE
- (2014, 6 min.)
- DAVID BOWIE: VALENTINE'S DAY
- (2014, 6 min.)
- Official Selection, “WE ARE BOWIE”
David Bowie fan art showcase, Parlour Showrooms, Bristol, UK
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