VIDEO ART
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After Effect 
I was in Houston three weeks after Hurricane Harvey in 2016. The trash I filmed was in front of houses which looked unaffected on the outside, but had spilled their innards onto their front lawns. Click here to view video (20 minutes). |
Incarnation 
Simulation video of immersive environment including sound, and text. A series of nude video portraits of subjects ages 2 to 90 years old serve as the canvas through which I, as a painter and video artist, explore the conjunction of individuality, relationship and community. Click here to read about the work. (Simulation 5-min 57-sec) |
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In the Beginning was Desire 
This 40-minute experimental documentary in collaboration with documentary filmmaker David Grubin is structured on a series of interviews with Biblical scholar Avivah Zornberg, with visuals conceived and created by Naomie Kremer. To see stills from the video, please click here. To view the entire film on Vimeo please click here to request the password from the artist. |
Eyeful 
Created for an exhibition titled Dada Here and Now. Curated by Hanna Regev and Matt McKinley, this video riffs on the history/biography of 4 major figures in the Dada movement, with the title a wink at Marcel Duchamp's preoccupation with/disdain for "retinal" art. Click here to to view video (6-min 30-sec) |
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Write-off  This video was created for the exhibition Living with Endangered Languages in the Information Age, curated by Hannah Regev. My video focuses on the equally endangered state of handwriting, which only exists because of language. Click here to see the video. |
Ghosts  A site specific installation commissioned by the Magnes Museum, Berkeley, projected in the museum windows every night after sunset during March 2009. To view a 6-minute excerpt, please click here. |
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Only Connect  The title of this piece is a quotation from the novel Howard's End by E.M. Forster: "Only Connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest." This video takes that concept as a metaphor for the connection of the billions of people who share the planet earth. To view a short excerpt, please click here. |
Spinning  This video was created for the exhibition Entre les Lignes (Between the Lines) at Galerie Impaire , Paris, France. To view a short excerpt, please click here. |
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Shtetl  My father was born in a shtetl in Poland. There are almost no photographs of his life. This animation is made with drawings I based on A Vanished World, Photographs by Roman Vishniac taken in the Polish shtetls in the 1930's. Click here o view video (2-min 53-sec) |
State of Mind  Video commissioned for the exhibition Mind Matters: Mapping the Human Mind Through Neuroscience. Curated by Esther Mallouh, at the Sandler Neurosciences Center, UCSF, Mission Bay. A collaboration between 7 neuroscientists and 7 artists. I worked with Dr. Jay McClelland at Stanford University. This video combines a painting loosely mapping the brain with animated elements showing where those functions occur. Click here to see the full video. |
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No Man's Beach  Taped at the mixed Israeli and Arab beach just north of Jaffa in 2010, and in the women-only beach in northern Tel Aviv in 2014, this video joins the two very different beach going populations in a utopian mashup. Click here to view video (4-min 45-sec) |
Lookout  Two videos filmed in geographically far-flung situations are joined together. In neither situation is the action directed. Human and animal barely move, but with potential movement life courses through everything, including the tree. Excerpt from 9 minute 29 second video loop. Click here to see short excerpt from 9-min 29-sec video. |
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So Far  The title has a double meaning. It expresses the distance in both space and time that is traveled in the course of a voyage, an experience, a lifetime. Click here to see the video (5-min 30-sec) |
Slice of Life  For the exhibition Do Not Destroy: Trees, Art, and Jewish Thought at the Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, 2012, I documented a robin devotedly brooding on the nest she built in the head of a horse sculpture by Deborah Butterfield. Once the eggs hatched, I was struck by the contrast between her inscrutable expression and the endlessly demanding chicks. Click here to see an excerpt from the video. |