THE HOUSE OF ASTERION
Showing at NATIONALE
February 21 – March 29, 2026
Reading & reception Thursday, March 19, 7pm
roland dahwen film
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
Notes – Property of Opaqueness /
Thank you to Takahiro Yamamoto for including me in his performance Property of Opaqueness, made possible by the Henry Art Gallery and performed at Velocity Dance Center in Seattle, WA. Thanks to all the staff of the Henry, Velocity, Nina, Ian, Erin, Rana, and Taka.
Notes – ARENA – VIDEO AND BEYOND (CORTONA ON THE MOVE FESTIVAL) /
July 11 opening.
Cantonese translation and voiceover: Shao Way Wu
Italian translation: Valentina Scaramella
Curator: Liza Faktor
Supported by the Regional Arts & Culture Council
Short excerpt
Notes – Conversation at the Cooley Gallery /
Thanks to Stephanie, Leo, and everyone who attended Monday’s conversation at the Cooley Gallery.
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 – 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.
