THE HOUSE OF ASTERION
Showing at NATIONALE
February 21 – March 29, 2026
Reading & reception Thursday, March 19, 7pm
patua films
Screening - Portland Panorama /
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
Video release for Ecotrust and the Kalispel Tribe /
We had the pleasure of helping Ecotrust produce this video, working with the Kalispel Tribe and the Kalispel Natural Resources Department in Northeastern Washington.
Read the blog post by Jessica Douglas and watch the video here.
Thanks to Ted Davee and Sam Hamilton from the production team, and to the kind folks at Ecotrust: Jessica Douglas, Stephanie Gutierrez, Megan Foucht, Heldáy de la Cruz, Sean Gutierrez.
MAY 35 in Good Symptom and Property of Opaqueness performance /
Two updates:
My video piece MAY 35 will be included in an anthology, Good Symptom (presented by The 3rd Thing). Thanks to Rana, M, and Chelsea. Official release date is TBD - more information forthcoming.
On February 26, I’ll participate in a performance at Hoffman Gallery, in Portland. Choreographed by Takahiro Yamamoto, with fellow performer Emily Squires. The performance will take place in the gallery, in the context of an exhibition by Dru Donovan and Cara Tomlinson. Info.
Borrufa – now distributed by Collective Eye Films /
Borrufa is now available through Collective Eye Films.
Colleges, Universities, Schools, and Libraries can find the film here.
Special thanks to Kanani Koster and James-Michael Boyer.
Still from BORRUFA (dir. Roland Dahwen, 2020)
Borrufa selected to the 16mm Harkat Film Festival in Mumbai /
Thank you to the 16mm Harkat Film Festival (Mumbai, India) for selecting Borrufa for their festival. A celluloid film-only festival, Harkat is virtual this year.
Borrufa is scheduled to screen online on December 19, 2020.
For information and tickets: https://16mm.harkat.in/
Notes – Screening at Boathouse Microcinema /
On Sunday, April 14, THERE ARE NO BIRDS IN THE NESTS OF YESTERDAY is screening at Boathouse Microcinema, alongside work by Pam Minty and Julia Oldham.
Doors at 7.30pm, showing at 8pm. $8 at the door – no advance tickets.
Notes – Upcoming screenings and exhibitions /
UPCOMING SCREENINGS AND EXHIBITIONS
TRAVELER’S ODE
April 4, 2019
Performance video
Cadence Video Poetry Festival – Seattle, USA
THERE ARE NO BIRDS IN THE NESTS OF YESTERDAY
April 14, 2019
Documentary short
Boathouse Microcinema – Portland, USA
MAY 35 (short)
April 22 – 29, 2019
Video installation
Festival Internacional de Videoarte de Camagüey – Camagüey, Cuba
MAY 35 (expanded)
July 11 – September 29, 2019
Video installation
Cortona on the Move Festival (ARENA) – Cortona, Italy
Notes – Screening at White Noise Project /
Thanks to Jake and Ryan for inviting us to show our short film THREE MOONS (made with Stephanie Adams-Santos, Kazumi and Rikuku Heshiki, Alma García, and Amanda Consuelo García) at their White Noise Project reading series. The event was their two year anniversary of the reading series. Thanks to everyone who attended.
Notes – De-Canon photo exhibit closing reception /
We’re holding an informal closing reception for the De-Canon photography exhibit that has been installed in the library since May. The exhibit features photography by Intisar Abioto, Vi Son Trinh, Dao Strom, and myself.
Sunday, January 27, 2019
6.30pm
De-Canon Library @ Milepost 5
8155 NE Oregon St, Portland, OR
Notes – «Traveler's Ode» video in Poetry NW /
Poetry NW published Dao Strom’s video «Traveler’s Ode» this month.
Video credits:
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
daostrom.com
patuafilms.com
Notes – Screening of «Traveler's Ode» «Three Moons» and «We are all the production line (part V)» /
Thank you to everyone who attended last night’s screening at the De-Canon Library at Milepost 5. Special thanks to Dao, Neil, Kyle, Lincoln, Ted, and everyone who made the event possible.
The «Traveler’s Ode» video will be released online soon by Poetry NW.
Notes – videos in Amsterdam /
The FIELD THEORIES videos that I worked on for Samiya Bashir (with keyon gaskin) were recently part of keyon’s NASHA festival in Amsterdam. These are very special artists and I am fortunate to have contributed a small part to this.
Notes – support from Academia Internacional de Cinema – Rio de Janeiro /
Many thanks to Flávia Rocha, Adriano Diniz, Nini Cartaxo, Taís Sales de Moraes and staff at Academia Internacional de Cinema (AIC) – Rio de Janeiro, for their post-production support of BORRUFA.
Notes – Field Day #2 (home school + Cooley Gallery) /
thanks to manuel arturo abreu, Stephanie Snyder, Kevin Holden, Victoria, Steven, the Cooley Gallery, and everyone involved in home school's FIELD DAY #2 that happened yesterday.
i gave a workshop on hospitality and the limits of cinema.
Notes – claire berrera performance /
June 15, 16, 17 — I'm showing a video as part of claire berrera's performance at New Expressive Works. claire has been in residence at N.E.W. and will be presenting work the next three days.
Notes – de-canon photography exhibit /
Yesterday we installed the de-canon photography exhibit – part of de-canon's residency – and tomorrow (Saturday, May 12) will be the opening reception.
Featuring the skillful and beautiful work of Intisar Abioto, Vincent Trinh, and Dao Strom.
The exhibit and library installation will be in place through July 28, 2018.
Notes – screening @ 5th Avenue Cinema /
On May 19th, we'll be screening HAFT-SEEN at Portland State University's 5th Avenue Cinema.
We'll also show new works by Jonathan Raissi, Stacey Tran, and myself.
Screening followed by Q&A, moderated by Takahiro Yamamoto.
Special thanks to Craig Epplin.
May 19
7-9pm
510 SW Hall Street
Portland, Oregon
97201
Notes – PICA's Creative Exchange Lab /
I'm fortunate to be an artist in residence at PICA's Creative Exchange Lab. On Tuesday, I presented some work:
«We are all the production line (part VI)»
Two-channel film. 8mm. Cassette tape and digital audio.
2018. 7 minutes.
Photo by Roy Perez
Notes – new Patuá Films website /
Our production house, Patuá Films, now has a new website: patuafilms.com
