Jason Livingston

History

A teacher, writer, and programmer, Jason Livingston has worked with many non-profits, including Cornell Cinema, the Experimental TV Center, the Standby Program and others. He is currently on the Board of Trustees with the Flaherty Seminar. His award-winning work has screened widely, including Rotterdam, Anthology Film Archives, the Austrian Museum, the Vancouver Art Gallery, and more.

Movies

Ancient Sunshine

Producer

A reflection on anarchism and labor, ANCIENT SUNSHINE marks a path through the struggles of climate activism and coal extractions in the American West.

Ancient Sunshine

Director

A reflection on anarchism and labor, ANCIENT SUNSHINE marks a path through the struggles of climate activism and coal extractions in the American West.

Your Healing Is Killing Me

Screenplay

Based on the performance manifesto, Your Healing is Killing Me, by Virginia Grise, Bryant and Livingston's video was produced as part of the workshop in the 2018 ImageTextImage program.

Your Healing Is Killing Me

Editor

Based on the performance manifesto, Your Healing is Killing Me, by Virginia Grise, Bryant and Livingston's video was produced as part of the workshop in the 2018 ImageTextImage program.

Your Healing Is Killing Me

Director

Based on the performance manifesto, Your Healing is Killing Me, by Virginia Grise, Bryant and Livingston's video was produced as part of the workshop in the 2018 ImageTextImage program.

#RUSHES

Director

An in-camera 16mm edit of the 1st anniversary/birthday/funeral of OWS in New York City, as seen from an embedded role in the Jellyfish Brigade, an ad hoc affinity group formed to participate in the day's event. Bold impact fonts compliment and countervail the images toward a warm antagonism.

Shale Raga

Director

Set to an excerpt of Don Cherry's Malkauns from his border-erasing 1975 album, Brown Rice, Shale Raga extracts corporate video toward resistance a la carbon-based capitalist sorcery, in this case EcoShale technology, which is patented by Alberta-based Red Leaf Resoures, Inc. and promises to "revolutionize" oil shale production in the Book Cliffs of eastern Utah.

7.24.14

Director

2014, silent, 16mm, 4'.

Copy and Past

Director

Found images and text from online matchmaking sites are anagrammed by poet Dora Malech to produce uncanny digital desires.

ACID REIGN

Director

Combining archival/found footage, treated images and diaristic Hi-8 video, ACID REIGN explores the ongoing battle between human beings' technologies of control and other life forms. In this case, animals re-inhabit a post-human urban landscape.

Lake Affect

Director

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