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Shot on 16mm film in long, thoughtful takes, Roland Dahwen’s debut feature tells the story of an immigrant family in Oregon whose life is disrupted when it’s revealed that the father has a second family. Reeling from this news, his wife Leonora must choose to either leave her husband, her dying mother, and her son, who has a mysterious illness—or to move on, and let her husband take responsibility for the family he’s destroyed. Haunted by memories, Leonora now struggles between her desires and her responsibilities. With a pace that mimics real life contemplations, Borrufa straddles the line between documentary and narrative, while the generational tragedies of human error slowly creep through the screen. – Portland International Film Festival

«BORRUFA (official trailer)» | feature film | DCP | 110 minutes
Distributed by Collective Eye Films, available here
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«THERE ARE NO BIRDS IN THE NESTS OF YESTERDAY» | trailer for documentary | 20 minutes
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Traveler's Ode music & words: Dao Strom director: Roland Dahwen director of photography: Edward Pack Davee sound recording & mixing: sidony o’neal, Dao Strom, Jim Han mastered by Timothy Stollenwerk at Stereophonic Mastering with thanks to Kyle Macdonald with project support from Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC) & Creative Capital Foundation filmed at Satsop Power Plant, Elma WA video produced by Patuá Films https://www.daostrom.com https://www.patuafilms.com

«TRAVELER’S ODE» | performance video | 9 minutes

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«HAFT-SEEN (trailer)» | trailer for short film | 30 minutes

«GOLDEN HOUSE» by TIBURONES from album «EVA» Directed by Roland Dahwen Wu Featuring Nick Delffs and Luz Elena Mendoza Produced by Patuá Films Pink Smoke Records «EVA» available now on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/eva/id1054586805 http://www.rolanddahwen.com/

«TIBURONES - GOLDEN HOUSE» | music video | 5 minutes

"You know how the universe blinks." || movement by keyon gaskin + filmed with Roland Dahwen Wu & Patua Films || Field Theories wends its way through quantum mechanics to chicken wings and Newports, love and a shoulder’s chill, melding blackbody theory (idealized perfect absorption, as opposed to the whitebody’s idealized reflection) with real live Black bodies. Albert Murray said, “the second law of thermodynamics ain’t nothing but the blues.” So what is the blue of how we treat each other, ourselves, of what this world does to us, of what we do to this shared world? Woven through experimental lyrics is a heroic crown of sonnets that wonders about love and intent, identity and hybridity, and how we embody these interstices and for what reasons and to what ends. These poems span lyric, narrative, dramatic, and multi-media experience, engaging their containers while pushing against their constraints. FIELD THEORIES, by Samiya Bashir Nightboat Books || 2.1.2017 Samiya Bashir’s previous books, including Gospel, Where the Apple Falls, and Role Call: A Generational Anthology of Social & Political Black Literature & Art, exist. She makes poems of dirt, zeros & ones, text & light. She lives in Portland, Oregon. samiyabashir.com

«FIELD THEORIES part six» | book trailer | 1.5 minutes

Excerpt from the piece QUARANTINE, presented at Creative Mornings PDX - Pure Surface Featuring keyon gaskin and Lucy Lee Yim at FLOCK Score by Jonathan Raissi a film by Roland Dahwen Wu http://www.rolanddahwen.com/

«QUARANTINE::DUO» | excerpt - video installation | 7 minutes

Films :: index

«HOLLOW CENTER» [ video installation. 15 minutes. 2025. for Takahiro Yamamoto. ]

«PONYHOF» [ short film. 6 minutes. 2024. Patuá Films. ]

«ALMANAC, THE NATURAL WORLD» [ two-channel video installation. 22 minutes. 2023. Patuá Films. ]

«APPROACHES» [ short film. 11 minutes. 2022. Patuá Films. ]

«BORRUFA» [ feature film. 109 minutes. 2020. Patuá Films. ]

«MAY 35» [ two-channel video installation. 10 minutes. 2019. Patuá Films. ]

«TRAVELER’S ODE» [ music video. 9 minutes. 2019. Patuá Films. for Dao Strom ]

«RIOS SUELTOS» [ music video. 5 minutes. 2019. Patuá Films. for Y La Bamba ]

«TRES LUNAS/三つの月/THREE MOONS» [ two-channel video installation. 12 minutes. 2018. for Regional Arts & Culture Council’s Night Lights ]

«HAFT-SEEN» [ video installation. 30 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. ]

«ORIGIN TALE» [ two-channel video installation. 9 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. for Dao Strom/Time-Based Art Festival ]

«FLOWER DIATRIBE #1» [ video installation. 8 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. for Dao Strom ]

«PYRAMIDS» [ video installation. 15 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. for Shayla Lawson/Time-Based Art Festival ]

«FIELD THEORIES» [ short film. 10 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. for Samiya Bashir ]

«PRESENT DAY BOUNDARIES SHOWN» [ video installation. 2 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. for Takahiro Yamamoto/Direct Path to Detour. ]

«WE ARE ALL THE PRODUCTION LINE part II» [ video installation. 4 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. ]

«GIRLS IN TROUBLE» [ trailer. 2 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. for Girls in Trouble/Alicia Jo Rabins ]

«INTISAR ABIOTO» [ video installation. 21 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. for Intisar Abioto ]

«OJOS DEL SOL» [ music video. 4.5 minutes. 2017. Patuá Films. for Y La Bamba/Tender Loving Empire ]

«WE ARE ALL THE PRODUCTION LINE» [ video installation. 7.5 minutes. 2016. Patuá Films. for Physical Education/hq Objective at Fortune Gallery ]

«FIELD THEORIES parts 1-6» [ book trailer. 1.5 minutes each. 2016-2017. Patuá Films. for Samiya Bashir ]

«POETRY PRESS WEEK SPRING/SUMMER 2016» [ event documentation. 6 minutes. 2016. Patuá Films. for Poetry Press Week ]

«BLACK HOLE» [ music video. 5 minutes. 2016. Patuá Films. for Muscle and Marrow ]

«GOLDEN HOUSE» [ music video. 5 minutes. 2016. Patuá Films. for Tiburones ]

«ALICIA JO RABINS :: POETRY PRESS WEEK» [ event documentation. 2 minutes. 2016. Patuá Films. for Alicia Jo Rabins ]

«MACAU (part I)» [ video installation. 5 minutes. 2016. Patuá Films. ]

«MACAU: THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE ORIENT IN THE OCCIDENT (part II)» [ video installation. 2 minutes. 2016. Patuá Films ]

«POETRY PRESS WEEK SPRING/SUMMER 2015» [ event documentation. 6 minutes. 2015. Patuá Films. for Poetry Press Week ]

«POETRY PRESS WEEK :: STACEY TRAN» [ event documentation. 2 minutes. 2015. Patuá Films ]

«NOT ALL SHUTEYE IS SLEEP» [ video installation. 3 minutes. 2015. Patuá Films. ]

«SYNESTHETICA ARCANA» [ text by Michael Harper. video installation. 6 minutes. 2015. Patuá Films. for Michael Harper ]

«SECRET/NOFORN» [ video installation. 12 minutes. 2015. Patuá Films ]

«MAPS» [ featuring Samiya Bashir. two-channel video installation. 11 minutes. 2015. Patuá Films. for Samiya Bashir ]

«LATE CUNEIFORM» [ score by Jonathan Raissi. video installation VISU SUO featuring Devin White. 21 minutes. 2015. Patuá Films ]

«QUARANTINE» [ featuring keyon gaskin & Lu Lee Yim. score by Jonathan Raissi. video installation. 30 minutes. 2015. Patuá Films. for Creative Mornings Portland/Pure Surface ]

«LA FRAGUA» [ featuring Lane Walkup. documentary short. 7 minutes. 2014. Patuá Films ]

«5775» [ score by Jonathan Raissi. video installation. 15 minutes. 2014. Patuá Films. for Design Week Portland/Pure Surface ]

«EDNA VAZQUEZ: RETRATO EN TRES COLORES {EDNA VAZQUEZ: PORTRAIT IN THREE COLORS}» [ featuring Edna Vazquez. documentary. 31 minutes. 2013. Patuá Films ]

«YA NO HAY PÁJAROS EN LOS NIDOS DE AYER {THERE ARE NO BIRDS IN THE NESTS OF YESTERDAY}» [ documentary. 20 minutes. 2010. Patuá Films ]

«DECIDUOUS LIFE» [ video installation. 3 minutes. 2014. Patuá Films. for Lexicon Polaroid ]

«EYE LEVEL {A LA ALTURA DE LOS OJOS}» [ video installation. 36 minutes. 2014. Patuá Films. for Pure Surface ]

«CALENDAR WITHOUT NUMBERS» [ music by COCONiNO. music video. 4 minutes. 2014. Patuá Films ]

«INFRASTRUCTURE AND ABANDONMENT» [ video installation. 3 minutes. 2014. Patuá Films ]

«CUSTOMER COPY» [ video installation. 3 minutes. 2014. Patuá Films ]

«SALA DE ESPERA {WAITING-ROOM}» [ video installation. 1 minute. 2014. Patuá Films ]

«PORTA DE EMERGÊNCIA: INSTANTANEOUS MEMORIES» [ video installation. 3 minutes. 2013. Patuá Films ]

«AEROPUERTO» [ music by Shao Way Wu + Owen James. video installation. 2 minutes. 2013. Patuá Films ]

«SWEET SHOP» [ with Craig Epplin, Allegra Jongeward, and Donald Dunbar. documentary short. 9 minutes. 2013. Patuá Films. for Rattapallax ]

«GIRASOL {SUNFLOWER}» [ video installation. 1 minute. 2013. Patuá Films ]

«AT THE END OF THE DAY» [ music by COCONiNO. music video. 10 minutes. 2013. Patuá Films ]

«TOO CHEAP» [ music by COCONiNO. music video. 5 minutes. 2013. Patuá Films ]

«LANE WALKUP {short version}» [ documentary short. 1 minute. 2014. Patuá Films. for Lane Walkup ]

«HE'S GOT THE BUG» [ music by COCONiNO. music video. 7 minutes. 2013. Patuá Films ]

«DANÇA EÓLICA» [ video installation. 2 minutes. 2013. Patuá Films ]