Screening: How Do They Do It? will screen at The Best of the Moviate Underground Film Festival. April 16, 2023. Harrisburg, PA.
Screening: Bitter Medicine will screen at the Istanbul International Experimental Film and Video Festival in November 2022.
Screening: Bitter Medicine will screen at Bideodromo in Bilbao, Spain in November 2022.
Award: I am the recipient of a MSAC Creativity Grant (2022).
Award: I am the recipient of a Creative Baltimore Grant from the Baltimore City Mayor’s Office (2022).
Screening: Bitter Medicine and Signs Point to Yes will screen at Moviate in May 2022.
Screening: Bitter Medicine will be part of the Asia North exhibition in the Station North Arts District in Baltimore, MD in April 2022.
Screening: How Do They Do It? will screen at Ultracinema in Mexico in November 2021.
Screening: How Do They Do It? will screen at Antimatter in Victoria, BC, Canada, October 2021.
Screening: How Do They Do It? will screen at Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival. June 10- 13, 2021. “Didascalies: Life is encoded with endless stage directions for the presentation of self. The films in this program consider the various roles we play and engage the subtleties of performance as a restrictive and emancipatory force within the construction of gender, ethnicity, and age.”
Screening: How Do They Do It? will screen at Moviate. November 11 - 15, 2020. This event has been moved online.
Screening: How Do They Do It? will screen at Engauge Experimental Film Festival in the program “Stories Not for Children.” October 31 - November 1, 2020. This event has been moved online.
Streaming: Beginning July 29, 2020, One Storey will be streaming on the Baltimore Museum of Art’s Screening Room: The Necessities of Tomorrow(s). This event is ongoing.
Screening: How Do They Do It? will screen at Cadence at Northwest Film Forum in April 2020. This event has been moved online.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at Emergency Response Cinema in Austin, TX on January 30, 2020.
Screening: I will be screening a program of my work at Rhizome DC on Thursday, November 7, 2019 at 7pm.
Your Best Efforts Have Failed - The Films of A. Moon: The featured short films investigate absent persons, missing knowledge, and impossible subject positions, laying bare the devastation—and enduring potential—of that which is unrealized, unreconciled, and unlived. Incorporating a range of traditional celluloid filmmaking techniques, the films enmesh the poetic and the mundane, always operating with acute self-awareness and an unswerving commitment to a forbidding formal logic.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at the Save the Archives festival in Milwaukee, WI in September 2019.
Screening: One Storey will screen at Maryland Art Place (MAP) on September 19, 2019 at 7:30pm as part of an MSAC group show.
Artist Talk: I will be participating in an artist talk at Stevenson University as part of the Unruly Bodies exhibition on Monday, September 9, 2019.
Award: 2019 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen in the program “Dada Queer Dada” at Rhizome DC on August 3, 2019.
Exhibition: The body that is too fat, too sick, too Black, too foreign, too female, too queer, too old…I will have work in the exhibition Unruly Bodies at Stevenson University. Exhibition dates: April 27 - September 21, 2019. Opening reception: Monday, April 29, 2019, 5-7pm.
Blurb about Unruly Bodies: One year ago, Roxane Gay asked 24 writers to consider what it means to live in an unruly body. The prompt for Medium was deceptively simple, personal but universal, and yielded beautiful narratives. Now, nine artists probe the themes of Gay’s Unruly Bodies magazine for an exhibition of the same name. What does it mean to move through the world in a body that contradicts societal norms? What does it mean to struggle against, come to terms with, or assert our physicality? How can we claim the space that we deserve?
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen in the program “Familiar Cadence” in Seattle, WA at Northwest Film Forum on April 4, 2019.
Screening: Exquisite Corpse will screen at “Best of Moviate” in Harrisburg, PA on March 24, 2019.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at the Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival in November 2018.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at the Engauge Film Festival in Seattle, WA in November 2018.
Exhibition: I have work in the Sondheim Semi-Finalist Exhibition at MICA (Decker Gallery). Opening reception: Thursday, July 19, 2018, 6pm-9pm. Exhibition dates: July 20 - August 5, 2018.
Screening: Exquisite Corpse will screen at Moviate in Harrisburg, PA in May 2018.
Exhibition: One Storey will be shown at the exhibition "Asia in Maryland," September 7th-December 8th, 2018 at the Asian Arts Gallery, Center for the Arts, Towson University. Opening reception: September 6.
Award: I am a 2018 Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA) Rubys grantee for media.
Award: Named 2018 Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen in the "Best of" Moviate program in Harrisburg, PA in March 2018.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will have its Asian premiere at the Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series in Taiwan in December 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at Imperfectu in Tijuana, Mexico in November 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at Antimatter in Victoria, BC, Canada in October 2017.
Screening: Exquisite Corpse will screen at "Made in Baltimore" at The Creative Alliance in Baltimore, MD on Sept. 30, 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will have its European premiere at Bideodromo in Bilbao, Spain in September 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World and One Storey will screen at the Old Greenbelt Theatre in in Greenbelt, MD in July 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at the Haverhill Experimental Film Festival in Haverhill, MA in June 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at the Moviate Underground Film Festival in Harrisburg, PA in May 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at the Montreal Underground Film Festival in Montreal, Quebec in May 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at the San Francisco Sex Worker Film and Arts Festival in SF, CA in May 2017.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will screen at the Athens International Film + Video Festival in Athens, OH in April 2017.
Curation: I have organized the program "Within the Divide: New Work from Turkey" for the MICA International Film Festival, MICA, 1300 W. Mt. Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD, Falvey Hall, Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 4:00 pm. This event is free and open to the public. The program features work by Sena Başöz and Didem Pekün.
Panel: I will be speaking on a panel at MICA on Saturday, March 4, 2017 at 8:30pm as part of the MICA International Film Festival. This event is free and open to the public.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will have its Baltimore premiere at R.House (301 W. 29th Street, Baltimore, Maryland), Sunday, March 5, 2017 at 7:00pm. This event is free and open to the public.
Screening: I Am Learning to Abandon the World will have its world premiere at the Big Muddy Film Festival in Carbondale, IL, in February 2017.
Screening. One Storey will be screening at Rhizome DC on June 9, 2016.
Notes: An excerpt from Peter Freund's catalog essay for Surplus/Lack:
Experimental film enjoys a long tradition of testing and expanding the limits of cinematic totality. The beauty or power of the films in tonight’s screening springs not from a totalizing aim but from an attentive respect for incompleteness and excess (hence the name “Surplus|Lack”). The twenty-one films ... explore loss, absence, and excess in the very nature of the image and its endeavor to capture the real, the ethical, the beautiful, the missing, the disappeared, the desired... If these films tonight present “too much” or “not enough” for an expected entertainment value, they do so as a question posed to the power of the viewing act.
Screening: I will be showing new work at the event 5 x 5 on April 24, 2016 at the Riversdale House Museum in Riverdale Park, MD.
Screening: "The image as such is already a defense against its own beyond." In San Francisco at The Lab on April 22, 2016, One Storey will be screening in the exhibition Surplus/Lack which is devoted to works that “engage the inescapable impossibility of representation.” The exhibition has been curated by Peter Freund and Jaimie Baron.
Award: I am a 2015 Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance (GBCA) Rubys grantee for media.
Nov. 13, 2014: Curator's Talk: Curator Blair Murphy Examines the Intimacy of "Strange Bedfellows."
Exhibition: I will have work in the WPA exhibition Strange Bedfellows at VisArts Rockville, Maryland. Opening reception is October 17, 2014 from 7-9pm.
"Strange Bedfellows will explore intimacy in its various incarnations, approaching the topic from a variety of angles. What do we expect from our closest relationships and how have those expectations changed over time? How are knowledge and intimacy intertwined?"
Exhibition: I have work in the show GUTSY at Gallery CA in Baltimore, Maryland. Closing reception is August 6, 2014 from 6-9pm.
GUTSY: Taking the Fear Factor Out of Feminism is an exhibition which seeks to highlight the work of female artists and artists dealing with feminist issues, themes, and aesthetics.
Award: In 2014/15, I will be a Fulbright senior research fellow in İstanbul, Turkey.
Award: In 2014, I will be a fellow with the Center for Asian American Media.
Exhibition: Sondheim Semi-finalist Exhibition at MICA. Opening reception: July 18, 2013. Postcard here.
Exhibition: Galerie Myrtis, Opening reception: July 27, 2013. Artist Talk: August 11, 2013. This exhibition is part of the Artscape Gallery Network: “The Artscape Gallery Network exhibitions highlight 2013 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize applicants, along with artists working throughout the region.”
Award: 2013 Maryland State Arts Council Individual Artist Award.
Screening: One Storey will be screening at the Cinethesia Feminist Film Festival in Carbondale, IL in March 2013.
Award: Named 2013 Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist.
Exhibition: Photos on exhibition at D Center, February 9- 3, 2013.
Screening: One Storey will be screening at Antimatter in Victoria, BC, Canada in October 2012.
Exhibition: I have work on exhibition at MICA. Friday, June 1–Wednesday, June 20, 2012: Decker Gallery, MICA, Fox Building, 1303 W. Mt. Royal Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21217. Opening reception Thursday, June 7 from 5-7pm.
Screening: One Storey will be screening at the Montreal Underground Film Festival in May 2012.
Screening: One Storey will be screening at EFF Portland in May 2012.
Screening: Two of my recent films will be screening at Plywood on February 24, 2012 at 8pm. Plywood, 511 East Belvedere Ave., Baltimore, Maryland 21212. This event is free and open to the public.
Screening: Everynobody’s Business: Experiments in Place, Home and Family, NYU, March 1, 2012, 6-8pm, NYU Kimmel Center, 60 Washington Square South, Shorin Performance Studio - Room 802, New York, NY 10003
"In this collection of recent Asian American film and video, experimental and documentary forms are used to explore the acts - generous, cruel and almost always compromised - that sustain and unravel families. What is passed on through blood and kinship is complicated through personal stories that negotiate history, dreams and reality in ways that make life, as refracted from these short films, both extraordinary and mundane." Curated by Chi-hui Yang.
Screening: Dream of Me will be screening at Anthology Film Archives in New York, NY on September 28, 2011 at 7:00 pm.
Award: Named 2011 Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalist.
Citation: A while ago, Valerie Soe blogged about Object Loss at SFIAAFF.
Citation: Jaime Baron wrote about Dream of Me in the article “Inappropriate Bodies” (reproduced here).
Screening: One Storey will screen as a work in progress at The Diversity in Place Film Festival in Hawaii.
Award: 2010 Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council.