In the video California Seals, Frankie Martin examines the environmental impact of commercial development in Southern California as well as critically reversing the filmic tropes of female objectification.  (excerpt of text by Emily Elizabeth Goodman)

This video was made in collaboration with Cory Arcangel inspired by a dinner date with our blogger friends. 

In the series TRAPPED IN THE WEB, Martin imagines a literal space to correspond with the physical language and properties in the digital world. In these videos, Frankiquoah does not choose the Internet as a means of expression or connection, but rather is engulfed by it. (excerpt of text by Rachel Adams)

In Boxed, a conversation with Joe Mariglio, reference is made to the monitor itself as a device of containment as the actors imagine themselves literally inside this virtual space. To be exhibited on a flat screen HDTV.

This video is the long edit of a scene from the feature length movie We are wild dogs with turquoise fur laughing at full moons.

Made in collaboration with Berglind Tomasdottir.  Beyond simply critiquing the nature of flute composition, Martin and Tomasdottir’s collaboration examines the gender dynamics at play in contemporary music, particularly with regard to the roles of performer and composer.  (excerpt of text by Emily Goodman)

3 min loop    SD video

In this piece Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli's Venus is born again (and again and again) into the format of video. This video, as shot with a female cast in the legendary waters of the Bermuda Triangle refers threefold; first to the female siren, a mythologic creature who lured male sailors to their death. Secondly, to the spiritual rebirth that can occur for a human soul in Christianity. And lastly, the video as such exists within the realm of the third wave of feminism. As first exhibited on a 2004 clamshell-shaped Apple laptop, the video is anchored physically in a time specific technology.