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The Lucky Club  The Lucky Club traces the relationship of 13-year-old Cindy and 30-year-old gambler, Mr. Randall. Based on a true story, the work interweaves documentary interviews, fictional narrative, and actual letters and diary entries to craft a contemporary ghost story. Selected Works Film Language Lessons (2000, co-director)
Loss Prevention (2000, co-director) O Night Without Objects, a Trilogy (1998, co-director) Installation A Wing and a Prayer (2002, co-creator)
Trial of Harmony and Invention (2001, co-creator) The Adventures of Blacky (1999, co-creator) Utopia in the Teenage (1993, co-creator) Dial 1-800-585-Fear (1992, co-creator) Accomplishments Screenings and Exhibitions: Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 2002:Theater Artaud, San Francisco, 2001; San Francisco Cinamatheque, 2001; Patricia Sweetow Gallery, San Francisco, 2001; Gallaria Otso, Helsinki, Finland, 1998; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, 1997; Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, 1997; Capp Street Project, San Francisco, 1993
Festivals: Dallas Video Festival, 2001; San Francisco Independent Film Festival, 2001; Flickerfest International Film Festival, Sydney, Australia, 2001; Lincoln Center Festival, New York, 2000; New York Video Festival, 1998 Awards and Grants: Creative Capital Foundation, 2000; Best Documentary, International Jewish Video Festival, 1998; Jurors Citation Award, Black Maria Film Festival, New Jersey, 1999; Jurors Prize, Charlotte Film Festival, Charlotte, NC, 1998; Xerox Parc Artist Fellowship, Palo Alto, CA, 1995 Education 2001 PhD candidate Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley
1988 MFA, Photography, San Francisco Art Institute 1985 BA, Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Web Site News October, November, December 2007 John Muse and Jeanne Finley’s
four channel video installation Flat Land
was exhibited at San
Francisco Camerawork’s gallery from
September through November. This piece explores the visual culture of
men and women at war by looking at publicly available images of "Flat
Daddies" (life-size cut-outs of soldiers that are carried through daily
activities by families and friends back home), and "Flat Stanleys"
(small cut-outs of a cartoon boy, sent by American school children on adventures around the world, sometimes to war zones). July, August, September 2007 John Muse and Jeanne Finley’s
four channel video installation Flat Land is
exhibited at San
Francisco Camerawork’s gallery from September
through November. This piece explores the visual culture of men and
women at war by looking at publicly available images of "Flat Daddies"
(life-size cut-outs of soldiers that are carried through daily
activities by families and friends back home), and "Flat Stanleys"
(small cut-outs of a cartoon boy, sent by American school children on adventures around the world, sometimes to war zones. January, February, March 2007 John Muse and Jeanne Finley's Lost screened at the New York Underground
Film Festival in March. Their experimental short documentary
uses
original video footage to reframe an audio diary entry that describes
the shooting of an Iraqi by American soldiers and efforts to assist the
Iraqi's widow. |
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