Renwick
will screen a 80-min. program of her work that begins with early
experimental films and concludes with her latest experimental
documentary video on the migration of swifts. These short, personal
constructions demonstrate a wide range of formal approaches and subjects
that include nuclear power, hitchhiking, Toxic Shock and a taste of the
wild west, be it a horse fighting a bear, a homoerotic rodeo or the
gentrification of Portland. Renwick's films share a restless spirit, an interest in outlaw art-making, and an unflagging sense of wanderlust. Her films,
videos and installations reflect an interest in place, urban
transformation, and relationships between bodies and landscapes. Her
diaristic "CROWDOG" was shot on super-8 during a 9-month barefoot
hitchhiking trip across the US. The film records her visit to the Pine
Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota to investigate the remnants of
the FBI's "Reign of Terror" on the American Indian Movement. On daily
walks to the river with her wolf dog she meditates on her experiences as
a barefooted person in a shoe-wearing world.
Toxic Shock 16mm print 2.5
Britton, South Dakota 9
Crowdog 7
red stallions revenge 7
The Yodeling Lesson 3
9 is a secret 6
mighty tacoma 9
westward ho 2
SF HITCH 5
cascadia terminal 6
Trojan 5
House of Sound 11
layover 5
