June 2024 – New publication 

I co-authored an essay with Lana Lin titled “Pareidolic Cinemas” for Portable Gray’s Spring 2024 issue on “Paraäcademia.”  We constructed a crossword puzzle as an eccentric device for considering pareidolia – the tendency to discern images in randomness – as a decolonial survival strategy in the films of three women/non-binary artists. 

May 2024 – Film premiere – Midwood Movie

Official selection of Prismatic Ground.  May 11 at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY.

April 2024 – New publication 

Friedling, Melissa (2023), ‘The feral film habit of OJOBOCA’, Journal of Environmental Media, Special Issue: ‘Cinezoonosis’, 4:2, pp. 187–212, https://doi.org/10.1386/jem_00109_1

July-August 2023 – Residency/Fellowship

MacDowell Fellowship – Artist residency. Peterborough, NH

November 2022 – New publication

“GESTATIONAL FILMMAKING with ART: AN ODD PAIR” in Portable Gray Vol 5, Number 2 / Fall 2022. 278 – 291. Published for the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry-

2022 – Film Preservation

The Flaherty Preservation initiative in conjunction with NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) preservation fund.  “Garden Roll Bounce Parking Lot” (2010) selected for archival preservation. 

January 2022 – Lightpress Grant

Interbay Cinema Society.  Grant awarded to digitize six of my short films made between 1994 – 2003 at Lightpress film laboratory. 

March 26, 2022-  An Odd Pair – premiere!

60th ann arbor film festival

March 2022-  Conference Panelist

“Propositions for Feral Filmmaking in the Work of Ojoboca”

March 2022-  Conference Presentation

“Home Works: Making Art at the End of the World”

January 2022 – NYSCA Grant – w UnionDocs

NYSCA Individual Artist award, New York State Council on the Arts award for project, “Midwood Movie” (category:  Film, Media & New Technology; fiscal sponsor:  UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art). 

January 2022 – Flaherty Preservation Initiative

Preservation initiative in conjunction with NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) preservation fund.  “Garden Roll Bounce Parking Lot” (2010) selected for archival preservation. 

January 2022 – Lightpress Grant

Interbay Cinema Society.  Grant awarded to digitize six of my short films made between 1994 – 2003 at Lightpress film laboratory. 

November, 2021 –  Invited lecturer

Presentation for Heidi Kumao’s “Experimental Animation” course.

July, 2021 – CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

“Touching Teaching:  Animating Care and Conjuring Closeness in Contactless Times”

June 10, 2021 at 16:00 to 18:00 BTS (11 am EST) CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

Presenting at the online conference:  The Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film in the Digital Era Conference

March 14, 2020 at 2pm – tune in to LIVESTREAM!!!

 Re/Lens: Old Glass for New Eyes – A workshop  with Amir Husak and Melissa friedling

2020 NYC WOMEN’S FUND FOR MEDIA, MUSIC AND THEATRE Award Recipient

Awarded grant for finishing an odd pair

1/21/20 – 2/4/20

Yaddo Residency Fellow

10/3/19 – 10/20/19

All My Fathers at La Mama Experimental Theater Club, New York, NY