paradise jacked: snapshots of the cultural underground

CANADA, 2008, 11 MINUTES / VIDEO

 

An experimental survey of Toronto women artists and performers, with Louise Ethel Liliefeldt, Sandra Alland, the Laydeez Quire, Sook-Yin Lee, Martha E. Chaves and myself. This short was companion to my MA thesis "Paradise Jacked: Primitivism, Disidentification & Feminist Cultural Practice."

 

Collaborations

 

Some Girls...

LAINA DAWES & KM AUGUSTINE, CANADA, 2005, 9 MINUTES / VIDEO

 

Conceived by music journalist Laina Dawes, this short was developed to accompany her presentation, "Black Female Metalheads" for the 2005 EMP Pop Music Conference in Seattle, Washington.

Works in Distribution

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Post-Modern Minstrel

CANADA, 2001, 4 MINUTES / VIDEO

 

Featuring dubbz/poet/at/large Clifton Joseph, the pontifical diatribe of his alter ego, "Reverend Swami," is used to illustrate the regressive race, class and gender caricatures celebrated within the talk-show circuit — specifically that of Jerry Springer.

 

skett?

CANADA, 2001 - SILENT, 4 MINUTES / VIDEO

 

"Skett": A West Indian term for a slack, easy woman. A silent, experiential short looking at the impact of fatherlessness on female sexual compulsion. (Uses excerpts from Jonetta Rose Barras' book Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? The Impact of Fatherlessness on Black Women.)

 

I Call Myself

CANADA, 2001, 2.5 MINUTES / VIDEO

 

Against the backdrop of the New 2 Live Crew videos, this video streeter begs the question: What does "woman" mean to the average male hip-hop consumer, promoter, DJ and MC?