Biography
I run Photography, Filmmaking and Visual Art classes throughout the year. I facilitate my students' narrative film work through instruction in: screenwriting, pre-visualization, acting (improvisation, scene study, establishing a directional vision), art direction (no-budget costuming, set dressing & set painting), cinematography (the science of light, conducting light studies, camera usage, camera movement), overall organization (continuity, budgeting, set procedure, ingesting workflow), Expo-board animation, sound recording, Foley & sound design, editing (Premiere), and, of course, abundant use of the Internet Archive. Fantastical work and interview-based documentaries have been my students' chosen focus thus far.
I have run many traditional art classes -- marker, mixed media, acrylic, collage, 3D -- with both a therapeutic mindset and an emphasis on crafting finished products. Beginning in 2015, I taught those art classes inside the carceral system, in locations like city jails, court mandated drug rehab, probation programs and juvenile lockups.
I always find my students teaching me and rekindling my own hope. My greatest challenge is to nurture their creativity & their whole person whilst maintaining the fast pace of shooting film.
I grew up in New England and the Deep South. I live in the Hudson Valley with my husband and family.
My inspirations: Ingmar Bergman, Jim Carroll, Toni Morrison, tulip trees, growing food and cooking it, Fish Tank, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Where Is The Friend's House?, Maurice Denis, Nkondi / Nkisi art tradition, Stacy Kranitz, family traditions, local history
Volunteer Work
- I write letters to back and forth with incarcerated artists about their art.
- I have the privilege of maintaining a trail in the Palisades region. I began a blog where I will be posting phone pics of things I see in my travels: https://jodyborhanidamico.tumblr.com
I run Photography, Filmmaking and Visual Art classes throughout the year. I facilitate my students' narrative film work through instruction in: screenwriting, pre-visualization, acting (improvisation, scene study, establishing a directional vision), art direction (no-budget costuming, set dressing & set painting), cinematography (the science of light, conducting light studies, camera usage, camera movement), overall organization (continuity, budgeting, set procedure, ingesting workflow), Expo-board animation, sound recording, Foley & sound design, editing (Premiere), and, of course, abundant use of the Internet Archive. Fantastical work and interview-based documentaries have been my students' chosen focus thus far.
I have run many traditional art classes -- marker, mixed media, acrylic, collage, 3D -- with both a therapeutic mindset and an emphasis on crafting finished products. Beginning in 2015, I taught those art classes inside the carceral system, in locations like city jails, court mandated drug rehab, probation programs and juvenile lockups.
I always find my students teaching me and rekindling my own hope. My greatest challenge is to nurture their creativity & their whole person whilst maintaining the fast pace of shooting film.
I grew up in New England and the Deep South. I live in the Hudson Valley with my husband and family.
My inspirations: Ingmar Bergman, Jim Carroll, Toni Morrison, tulip trees, growing food and cooking it, Fish Tank, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Where Is The Friend's House?, Maurice Denis, Nkondi / Nkisi art tradition, Stacy Kranitz, family traditions, local history
Volunteer Work
- I write letters to back and forth with incarcerated artists about their art.
- I have the privilege of maintaining a trail in the Palisades region. I began a blog where I will be posting phone pics of things I see in my travels: https://jodyborhanidamico.tumblr.com
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