Breaking Point - StoryMap /  by Roland Dahwen

Breaking Point: The State of Tribal Forestry Today
Winner of ESRI ArcGIS StoryMap 2024 Competition - Planning and Infrastructure
Video contributions to this StoryMap by Patuá Films
Camera credits: Edward Davee, Roland Dahwen, Henry Craddock, Sam Hamilton

Screening - Portland Panorama /  by Roland Dahwen

Screening of PONYHOF at Portland Panorama
Cinema 21
16 April 2025
4pm

Information here and more about the festival here.

PONYHOF (6 minutes, 2024)
Directed by Roland Dahwen
Starring Halle Frost

Life is not a pony farm. One day, we visit a hospital. Another day, we sit in our kitchen and listen to recordings of birds that our friend sends us, or a poem they read aloud. The wars do not cease. We do not cease them. What else do the waters contain, what else is on the other side of our enclosures.

still courtesy of Patuá Films

Exhibition - Outer Voice: Trajectories /  by Roland Dahwen

March 28 - April 27, 2025
Oregon Contemporary

Information here.

Group exhibition

Outer Voice: Trajectories
Julia Calabrese
Roland Dahwen
Marcus Fischer
Bridgette Hickey
Leslie Hickey
KT Kusmaul
Sarah Rushford
Ash Stone

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About THE HOUSE OF ASTERION (ASTERION HOUSETOUR)
Roland Dahwen
5 minutes, color, 2025.

«I pretend that he comes to visit me and I show him my house.»

In the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, the hero Theseus kills the Minotaur (a beast with the body of a man and the head of a bull). The Minotaur lives in a labyrinth, which Theseus navigates with the help of a ball of thread, given to him by the princess Ariadne.

This film imagines the Minotaur (named Asterion), giving a tour of his house, where he passes his days in solitude, awaiting his Redeemer.

Based on the story «La casa de Asterión» by Jorge Luis Borges. Adapted and translated by Roland Dahwen. Camera by Halle Frost. Music by Shao Way Wu and Randy Porter.

Screening - Boathouse Microcinema /  by Roland Dahwen

Boathouse Microcinema - 12 March 2025

Assembly Cut: A Group Screening

Information here

Experimental video and film can take on many forms and mean different things to different people. For our first screening since 2019, we are surveying a wide range of experiments – from glitch art, to music video, to narrative short, to durational, and more. Perhaps the intertwining videos will contradict each other, perhaps they will inform each other. Tonight’s filmmakers are a disparate bunch, each with their own unique voice.

Program Includes:
Roland Dahwen – Las Vegas, Y La Bamba “Rios Sueltos” music video
Leslie Hickey – Phone / Memory
Lily King – November 20, 2024
Brandon Marcoux and Mariana Mora – Two Fernand Rudolph music videos
Matthew Nash – Leaving it Behind
Kai Nealis – Queen
Sarah Turner – But… You’re a Dolphin

HOLLOW CENTER - Tufts University Art Galleries /  by Roland Dahwen

As part of the exhibition an archive and/or a repertoire, Takahiro Yamamoto presents HOLLOW CENTER, with a video installation by Takahiro Yamamoto and Roland Dahwen.

Information here.

an archive and/or a repertoire
Tufts University Art Galleries
SMFA at Tufts, 230 Fenway, Boston, MA
January 29 – April 20, 2025

Opening Reception:
January 29, 6–8pm
SMFA at Tufts, 230 Fenway, Boston, MA

First performance by Takahiro Yamamoto:
February 13, 3 – 8pm
Grossman Gallery, SMFA at Tufts
230 Fenway, Boston, MA

Still from HOLLOW CENTER (single channel video, 15 minutes, 2025. by Takahiro Yamamoto and Roland Dahwen)

Breaking Point: Tribal Forestry Today /  by Roland Dahwen

New video release:
Breaking Point: Tribal Forestry Today
Made for Ecotrust and Intertribal Timber Council.

Watch the video here

Learn about the state of Tribal Forestry through the IFMAT report here

ALMANAC, THE NATURAL WORLD in 'Kinds of Time' /  by Roland Dahwen

New film:

Almanac, the Natural World, 2023, 22m20s, 4k, stereo.
A cell phone tower disguised as a palm tree. A wallpaper river. Artificial moss in a hospital. Almanac, the Natural World is a photo-roman on classification and plants.

On view as part of the group exhibition - Outer Voice: Kinds of Time - at Oregon Contemporary.

March 22 - April 7, 2024

Info here.

Screening - Place Matters: Indigenous land and water stewardship in a changing climate /  by Roland Dahwen

I helped produce a film (Climate Smart Forestry with the Kalispel Indian Tribe) that is part of this event, organized in a partnership between ProPublica, OPB, Confluence, and Ecotrust.

7pm, Thursday, November 9
The Redd on Salmon Street

Four films showcasing the connections between Native peoples, place, and species unique to the Pacific Northwest.

A special evening of film and conversation that highlights the ways Native peoples throughout the Pacific Northwest maintain their relationship to place as well as the plant and animal life that is critical for cultural continuity.

Over the course of four short films and accompanying conversation, attendees will hear perspectives on the connections between forest and water, the struggle to bring lamprey back to their ancestral waterways, and the challenges faced by tribal fishers to continue their way of life on the Columbia.

The Films
Climate Smart Forestry with the Kalispel Indian Tribe
Produced by Ecotrust

People, Lamprey, and Cultural Ecology
Produced by Freshwaters Illustrated

Salmon People: A Native Fishing Family's Fight to Preserve a Way of Life
Produced in partnership by ProPublica and Oregon Public Broadcasting

Salmon's Agreement
Produced by Confluence

The Panel
Moderator:
Kara Briggs (Sauk-Suiattle, Yakama descendent), Vice President of Tribal Lands & Waters Stewardship at Ecotrust
Panelists:
Randy Settler (Yakama), Tribal Fisher
Gabe Sheoships (Cayuse / Walla Walla), Executive Director at Friends of Tryon Creek

MAY 35 in Good Symptom - Launch Party in Seattle on September 19 /  by Roland Dahwen

Good Symptom is a 12-part showcase of literary media art experiments that push the language of poetry, autobiography, manifestos, thought pieces and hybrid literary works off the page and onto the screen.

My video work, May 35, will be featured in the first installment, and a preview will be shown at the launch party:

Good Symptom Launch Party
September 19, 2023
Common Area Maintenance
2125 2nd Avenue
Seattle, WA 98121
Tuesday evening
6:30pm Pacific Time
Free and open to the public.

Subscribe to Good Symptom here.

Borrufa available on Kanopy /  by Roland Dahwen

Very happy to announce that Borrufa is now available to stream on Kanopy.

You can access Kanopy for free through most public libraries, or through academic institutions.

Thank you to Kanani, James-Michael, and Collective Eye Films for their distribution efforts.

Watch Borrufa here.

Still from Borrufa, courtesy of Patuá Films

Production photo by Vi Son Trinh

Production photo by Vi Son Trinh

MAY 35 screening at Experiments in Cinema /  by Roland Dahwen

My short film MAY 35 will screen at the Experiments in Cinema festival (Albuquerque, NM) this year, as part five films from the Good Symptom showcase.

In-person at EIC:
Friday, April 21, 2023
12-1pm at Guild Cinema
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Online at EIC:
May 1-10, 2023
Free, on-demand.
Watch the showcase
Experiments in Cinema festival program

Thanks to M, Rana, Chelsea, Anne, Melinda, and EIC for sharing this work.

Still from MAY 35, courtesy of Patuá Films