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Category Archives: Video

Events

I’m involved with several events over the next few days.  Click on “Calendar” for details.
Sunday the 14th:  Opening for Spring Studio 18th Anniversary Show, featuring hundreds of artists.  Spring Studio, NYC, starts 6:30.
Sunday the 14th:  Blacklight Body Painting Dance Party at St. George Healing Arts, Staten Island, 6 pm on, donation suggested.
Tuesday the 16th:  KAMI, [...]

Release

The tradition of the wild party for New Years probably has something to do with the idea of catharsis, an explosive releasing of pent-up emotion through acting out.  We want to exhaust the frustration, regrets and resentments of the ending year by burning off the lingering energy to awaken to a fresh new day.  Of [...]

To Dance a Landscape

November from Fred Hatt on Vimeo.
November is a film I made in collaboration with dancer Jung Woong Kim of U-Turn Dance Company.  This is about as spontaneous as filmmaking can get.  Jung Woong and I just met one day at Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, walked around looking for suitable settings, and then filmed Jung Woong’s improvisations [...]

Subway Sax

Subway Sax from Fred Hatt on Vimeo.
In honor of my brother, Frank, and in celebration of his moving back to the Northeast after a sojourn in Oklahoma, I’m posting a video we made eighteen years ago. This is Frank improvising on his alto saxophone in the West 4th Street Subway Station in Manhattan on [...]

Shows!

This week in New York there are two performances I’m associated with and recommend.
On Sunday, October 18, at 8:30 pm, Monkey Town, Brooklyn’s immersive video cube bar/restaurant presents a program of Music and Butoh (Japanese avant-garde dance).  My elemental video imagery is part of the performance Ka = Fire  Mi = Water, by dancer Mariko [...]