Gwendolyn Infusino

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2023

Branded Documentary Series

Episodic

As Filmmaker in Residence of the UCLA Film & Television Archive, I created a video identity for the Archive and directed / produced / edited a series of branded documentaries telling its story. The films are screening at the Hammer Museum throughout summer ‘23, in the Billy Wilder Theater.

director / producer / editor Gwendolyn Infusino

featuring Zackary Drucker, Peter Sellars, Chon Noriega, May Hong HaDuong

producer Stephen Heleker

director of photography John Clifton

1st AD Hamoun Dolatshahi

camera operator Sasha Aleksandra Timan

sound mixer John Bin Zhao

PAs Sophie Hand, CJ Christensen

post production supervisor John Clifton

assistant editor Gregory Armstrong

re-recording mixer Frank Gaeta

colorist John Clifton

bumper art direction Gwendolyn Infusino

bumper illustration & motion graphics Sarah Klinger

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S16mm Film + Magnetic Tape, 2020

Short Comedy, Drama

17 mins

A group of well-intentioned but hopelessly flawed film enthusiasts struggle to save their beloved video store from extinction.

Nominee, Best Short Film Lonely Wolf International Film Festival London, 2022

Nominee, Best Short Film Sensei Tokyo Filmfest, 2022

Official Selection The Arthouse Film Festival, 2022

Official Selection Catalina Film Festival, 2022

Official Selection LA Shorts International Film Festival, 2022

Official Selection Flickfair, 2022

Official Selection Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2021

Official Selection Santa Fe International Film Festival, 2021

Official Selection Annapolis Film Festival, 2021

Official Selection No Coast Film Festival, 2021

Golden Stake Award Shockfest, 2021

Official Selection Chicago Underground Film Festival, 2020

Edie and Lew Wasserman Film Production Fellowship, 2017

Antonio David Blanco Fellowship, 2017

UCLA MFA Thesis Film Production Award, 2017

writer / director / producer / editor Gwendolyn Infusino

cast Steve Olson, Zachary Margolis, John Dellaporta, Dylan Ryan, Daniel de Welden, Tom Sheeter, Terrell Dixon

producer Reina Higashitani

director of photography Marcus Patterson

1st ADs Michael Bromberg, Cecilia Albertini, Alicia Herder

associate producer Yuhe Lu

script supervisor Elenie Chung

1st AC Ana Flores, Noah Ramos

2nd AC Stephanie Jiang

film loader Wade Chao

gaffer Trey Betts

key grips Nima Niv, Jonni Tecle, Stephen Heleker

best boy electric Turner Spurlin

G&E Brian Sharp, Jarrod Paschal, Masato Suzuki, Lydia Janbay, Malachi Whitten, Nico de Prato

sound mixers Blake Christian, Montiel Rafael, Destiny Farrant

PAs Samuel Rubin, Janae Marable

sound designer / re-recording mixer Yu-Ting Su

sound editor John Cerrito

sound engineer Marco Santucci

colorist Nate Seymour

assistant colorist John Clifton

costume designer Marisa Melideo

production designers Naomi Gonzalez Kahn, Michelle Joo

on set dresser Sydnie Ponic

hair & makeup artist Claire Gonella

casting director Lisa Essary

casting assistant Ranjiv Perera

composer Dylan Ryan

picture car Elvis Tena

catering Too Tasty Inc.

thanks Rory Kelly, Becky Smith, Nancy Richardson, Patrick Infusino

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4K, 2020

Short Comedy

8 mins

When a young woman goes to see an apartment for rent, she finds the landlord has quite an attachment to his current tenant.

Official Selection No Coast Film Festival, 2022

Terina Spyropoulou Memorial Award, 2015

writer / director / producer / editor Gwendolyn Infusino

cast Davia Schendel, John Eddings, Pat Scott

director of photography Marcus Patterson

1st AD Adamma Ebo

2nd AD Quintilio Rose

1st AC John Clifton

2nd AC Kyle Lewis

Gaffer Brooks Yang

Sound Chris Rogers, Elise Drexler

DMT Christine Liang

original music Pat Scott

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2016

Experimental Live Cinema

camera operator Gwendolyn Infusino

director Francis Ford Coppola

cast and crew

LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE

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Production in San Francisco, 2019

Feature Film, 2021

Comedy, Drama, Romance

91 mins

A woven tale of three stories that explore love, commitment, and loyalty between couples and friends.

Tribeca Film Festival, 2020

Deauville Film Festival, 2020

production manager Gwendolyn Infusino

writer / director Eleanor Coppola

cast Rosanna Arquette, Maya Kazan, Cybill Shepherd, Rita Wilson, Polly Draper, Alyson Reed, Valarie Pettiford, Elea Oberon, Nancy Carlin

producers Adriana Rotaru, Anahid Nazarian

cinematographer Hiro Narita

art director Barbara Munch

costume designer Aggie Guerard Rogers

location manager Peter Moody

FROG CATCHER

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4K, 2020

Short Drama

18 mins

In 1876 San Francisco, when the law prohibits women from wearing trousers, a frog catcher known as a “man-woman” develops a mutual attraction with the wife of a powerful businessman. Inspired by a true story.

KCET Fine Cut Festival (Finalist)

Japan Association of Audiovisual Producers (JAAP) Award for Creative Excellence

Filmschoolfest Munich

Oslo Fusion International Film Festival

LesGaiCineMad, Madrid International LGBTI Film Festival

Gilbert Baker Film Festival (Best Short Award)

Reel Q: Pittsburgh LGBTQ+ Film Festival

Way OUT Film Fest

Outsouth Queer Film Festival

image+nation Montreal Queer Short Film Festival

Roze Filmdagen Amsterdam LGBTQ Film Festival

Hollywood Foreign Press Association Directing Fellowship

Caucus Foundation Grant

Panavision New Filmmaker Grant

Roy W. Dean Grant Summer 2019 Hot Film in the Making

consulting producer Gwendolyn Infusino

writer / director Reina Higashitani

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4K, 2017

Short Mystery, Comedy

16 mins

An aging scene god pulls off a miracle to save his troubled sidekick’s life.

Motion Picture Association of America Award, 2016

writer / director / producer / editor Gwendolyn Infusino

cast Franklin Pollard, Mark Daniel Quintos, Davia Schendel, Will Block, Dylan Ryan, Tim Aaron, Faith Strongheart

cinematographer Siru Wen

gaffer Justin Richards

1st AD John Cerrito

art director Jim McCambridge

costume supervisor Samantha Vinzon

original music Tim Aaron, Dylan Ryan

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4K, 2015

Short Thriller, Comedy

2 mins

As a burglar surveils his neighbor for a potential heist, he discovers his former lover is already way ahead of him.

writer / director / producer / editor Gwendolyn Infusino

cast Stephen Heath, Scott Noda, Lauren Dudko, Tim Aaron

cinematographer Yiran Zhou

AD Adriana Rotaru

1st AC Golden Zhao

gaffer Elise Drexler

sound Laci Dent, Michael Bromberg

DMT Cecilia Albertini

composer Dylan Ryan

Digital Video, 2014

Short Comedy, Drama

4 mins

When your girlfriend starts keeping eggs in a lockbox in the fridge - it’s time to talk…

Well Slept Film Festival, Chicago, 2014

UCLA MFA Directing & Production Admission Film

UCLA Fellowship Award ‘14-’15 Academic Year

writer / director / producer / editor Gwendolyn Infusino

cast Michelle Guimon, Christopher Cowgill

cinematographer Andrew Musch

sound Michael FX Perkins

STRINGS

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4K, 2018

Short Drama

12 mins

When a high school teacher reaches out to her troubled new student through music, their relationship takes an unexpected turn.

Jack Nicholson Distinguished Student Director Award

National Association of Theatre Owners of California/Nevada Fellowship in Film

producer Gwendolyn Infusino

writer / director / producer Reina Higashitani

Since starting her career as an in-house film writer at Facets Multi-Media and writer/editor in the technology space with Idealliance, Gwen has cultivated wide-ranging experience as a versatile professional writer. From copywriting at creative and technology agency Schafer Condon Carter, to writing bid proposals and publication excerpts for Studio Gang Architects, to curatorial texts for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago - Gwen has served as a voice for many prominent organizations across art and media. Coupled with her experience as a producer and organizer, she has developed strengths in strategic and persuasive writing. Having written in film, tech, art, journalism, advertising, marketing and architecture, her focus has been screenwriting since 2014.

Left: “Fuck Irony, Let’s Dance: Chicago’s Top 10 Groundbreaking Underground Bands of 2010”, by Gwendolyn Infusino, Lumpen, Number 115, Volume 19, Issue 1, October 2010, and “Whatever It Takes: A Chicago Composer’s Alchemical Production Processes”, by Gwendolyn Infusino, Lumpen, Number 116, Volume 19, Issue 2, March 2011

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO

In-house Curatorial, 2008 - 2010

Italics Film Series

(January 7 – 31, 2010)

curated by Gwendolyn Infusino

The Italics Film Series focused on highly acclaimed films made from 1969–81, a period that marks the transition in Italian filmmaking from national to international coproduction. Featuring rare, original 35mm prints (some never before seen) that were internationally sourced and trafficked - this was the first narrative film series of its kind ever to be exhibited at the museum. Programmed on a conceptual arc to resonate with the major exhibition Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968 – 2008 (curated by Francesco Bonami, former director of the Venice Biennale) the series explored paths of revolution and tensions with tradition across various contexts. Beginning with the metamorphosis of the family and continuing through evolving sociopolitical tensions, the series finally erupts into themes of newfound identity, language, and perspectives on the past. All 40 screenings took place in the MCA Theater. The series was praised extensively in the press including the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine, TimeOut Chicago and Newcity, and was mentioned on NPR as the best film series of 2010.

Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo), 1981. January 7, 9 & 10. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Cinematography by Carlo Di Palma, in Italian with English subtitles, 116 minutes

The Decameron (Il Decameron), 1971. January 9 & 10. Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, Cinematography by Tonino Delli Colli, in Italian with English subtitles, 107 minutes

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto), 1970. January 14, 16 & 17. Directed by Elio Petri, Cinematography by Luigi Kuveiller, in Italian with English subtitles, 112 minutes

Illustrious Corpses (Cadaveri Eccellenti), 1976. January 16 & 17. Directed by Francesco Rosi, Cinematography by Pasqualino De Santis, in Italian with English subtitles, 127 minutes

The Passenger (Professione: reporter), 1975. January 21, 23 & 24. Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Cinematography by Luciano Tovoli, in English, 126 minutes

The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato), 1978. January 23 & January 24. Directed by Enzo G. Castellari, Cinematography by Giovanni Bergamini, in English, 99 minutes

Fellini's Casanova (Il Casanova di Federico Fellini), 1976. January 28, 30 & 31. Directed by Federico Fellini, Cinematography by Giuseppe Rotunno, in English, 164 minutes

The Damned (La caduta degli Dei), 1969. January 30 & 31. Directed by Luchino Visconti, Cinematography by Pasqualino De Santis, Armando Nannuzzi, in English, 150 minutes

curatorial project coordination, development and administration for museum programming and the following major exhibitions:

Jeff Koons (May 31 – September 21, 2008)

Everything's Here: Jeff Koons and his experience of Chicago (June 14 – October 26, 2008)

Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT (October 25, 2008 – February 1, 2009)

Hide and Seek (February 16 – March 12, 2010)

Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out (February 6 – May 30, 2010)

Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968 – 2008 (November 14, 2009 – February 14, 2010)

Jeremy Deller: It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq (October 10 – November 15, 2009)

Take your time: Olafur Eliasson (May 1 – September 13, 2009)

Here/Not There (June 30 – August 2, 2009)

Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe (March 14 – July 5, 2009)

Artists in Depth: William Kentridge (May 10, 2008 – May 31, 2009)

USA Today (November 8, 2008 – May 3, 2009)

ASTRO SPACE PARTY

formerly www.AstroSpaceParty.info

Video Archive on Vimeo

2011 – 2013

curator Gwendolyn Infusino

Astro Space Party was a curatorial project centered around an online gallery that featured videos made by career contemporary artists, exclusively for the project. At the turn of the decade, online galleries emerged as a new social practice to reclaim the way video art was produced and experienced by taking it out of the traditional gallery setting and into the public and personal space. For this project, artists were asked to explore the role of “art as augury” by creating future-predictive works. The Astro Space Party concept of a celebration in limitless, non-physical space set the “anything goes” tone for creation outside a business or institutional context, and freedom from the conceptual expectations or limitations that implies. The result is a boldly exploratory, humorous, irreverent collection of work that many artists used as a testing ground for risk-taking, and some say informed their later work. Participating artists were based in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles.

Astro Space Party was the featured exhibitor at Verge Miami Beach Art Fair, which took place during Miami Art Week alongside Art Basel in December 2012. All 42 artists’ Astro Space Party videos were exhibited at Verge – projected in the lobby, onto the façade of The Greenview Hotel and the neighboring architecture.

Astro Space Party was curated into SPAMM.fr based in Paris, was featured in university lectures at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Syracuse University, and others.

Harold Arts (a former 501c3 residency organization that hosted roughly 100 emerging to late-career artists annually) partnered with Astro Space Party to create Astro Space Camp – an artist residency session held July 25 – 30, 2013 at a 900-acre tree farm equipped with amish-built art and recording studios in Chesterhill Ohio – which hosted 10 artists who convened to make work inspired by the project.

featured artists by video publication date:

John Maloof (12/20/12)

Ian Ferguson (9/11/12)

Ben Fain (8/21/12)

Derek Chan (8/14/12)

Brett Sova and Jeremiah Chiu (6/24/12)

Andrew Rosinski (6/5/12)

Todd Mattei (4/17/12)

RobRoy Campbell (4/10/12)

Dana Carter (4/3/12)

Jeremiah Chiu and Shannon Benine (3/27/12)

Kirsten Leenars (3/20/12)

Emily Kuehn (3/13/12)

Robert Reinard (3/6/12)

Cole Peirce (2/28/12)

Lauren Dudko (2/21/12)

Mollie McKinley (2/14/12)

Jason Ajemian (2/7/12)

Bill Talsma (1/31/12)

Jessie Mott and Pamela Bannos (1/10/12)

Tim Kinsella (1/1/12)

Colin Leipelt (12/27/11)

Conrad Freiburg (12/20/11)

Theodore Darst (12/13/11)

Xina Xurner and Pooper (12/6/11)

Sarah Weis (11/29/11)

Mike Finch (11/22/11)

Kelly Kaczynski (11/15/11)

Theo Katsaounis (11/1/11)

Dan Gleason (10/25/11)

Jacob Kart (10/4/11)

Wesley Groves (9/27/11)

Todd Mattei (9/20/11)

Laura Callier (9/2/11)

Michael Perkins (8/12/11)

Frank Pollard (8/5/11)

Andy Slater (8/5/11)

Gregory Jacobsen (8/5/11)

SPACE STATION TV

2012

curator Gwendolyn Infusino

Space Station TV was a curatorial project featuring artist Franklin Pollard as the host of a series of “variety show” style performance events in the vein of Alan Partridge meets Psychic TV. This project was devised as a tongue-in-cheek, satirical response to the vainglorious tone of certain artist interview shows. Each performance was a live taping of a multicam format show shot on VHS camcorders by Evan Nova. Artists drank whiskey and smoked cigarettes (or pretended to) with the host as he interviewed them about their work and led topical and free associative discussion, creating “interview as art” in its own right. Each show included a performance from a featured musical guest, some of which were situated inside artist Conrad Freiburg’s Pod of Absence - a heptagonal structure for sculpting sound. Shows were held throughout the Version 12 Art Festival at the Co-Prosperity Sphere Gallery in May of 2012, and at opening night of the MDW Fair at Mana Contemporary Art Center in Chicago.

Space Station TV, Episode 4: “ORD at MDW at MDW Fair 2012”, Chicago, IL

11/09/2012

Opening night performance at MDW art fair. Artist Frank Pollard interviews artists Ian Ferguson, Dan Gleason and Gregory Jacobson, with musical performance by Ant’lrd. Recorded live on 3-camera VHS.

Space Station TV, Episode 3: “America Online Live at Version Festival 12”, Chicago, IL

5/24/2012

Frank Pollard interviews artists Theodore Darst and Matthew Murray, with musical performances Lil Elote and Marvin Astorga of Xina Xirner, and Lightsalive, situated inside Conrad Freiburg’s Pod of Absence, a heptagonal structure for sculpting sound. With reggae DJ Brian Chankin and vocal performer Cosmos Ray of Impala Sound. Recorded live on 3-camera VHS.

Space Station TV, Episode 2: “Hpnotiq at Version Festival 12”, Chicago, IL

5/17/2012

Frank Pollard interviews artists Jacob C. Hammes, Wes Charles and Michael Workman, with musical performances by Deep Sleep and Conrad Freiburg, situated inside his Pod of Absence, a heptagonal structure for sculpting sound. Recorded live on 3-camera VHS.

Space Station TV, Episode 1: “Magic with a K at Version Festival 12”, Chicago IL

5/10/2012

Frank Pollard interviews artist Wesley Groves, with musical performance by Gel Set, situated inside Conrad Freiburg’s Pod of Absence, a heptagonal structure for sculpting sound. Recorded live on 3-camera VHS.

featured artists and musicians

Wesley Groves

Gel Set

Jacob C. Hammes

Wes Charles

Michael Workman

Deep Sleep

Conrad Frieburg

Theodore Darst

Matthew Murray

Xina Xirner

Lightsalive

Brian Chankin

Cosmos Ray

Ian Ferguson

Dan Gleason

Gregory Jacobson

Andy Slater

Ant’lrd

curator / director Gwendolyn Infusino

host Franklin Pollard

director of photography Evan Nova

a/v Wesley Groves

thanks Edward Marszewski

Gwen is a classically-trained cellist who has performed and recorded with various acts in the Chicago music scene, such as The Atari Star (Johann’s Face) and Magic Key. She collaborated with electronic artist and producer Kenneth Zawacki (Dar Embarks, Circling Vultures) under the moniker Moravec (named for their late middle-school music teacher) - a project consisting of twelve cello and synthesizer compositions including Mars! and Death in Asia - which music critic Larry Kart (Chicago Tribune) once described as “synth parlor music with a sound like early Scott Walker”. The Moravec project was performed live throughout 2010 at various artist-run showcases for experimental music and recorded live at The Whistler by Mike Broers (Ghost Arcade LTD).

Selected Shows

Harold Arts Winter Showcase, curated by Jacob Kart (Bucket Brigade, Crush Kill Destroy), The Hideout, Chicago, December 2010

HOTH: Hot on the Heels, curated by Beau Wanzer (Juzer, Mutant Beat Dance), Danny’s Tavern, Chicago, August 2010

Glad Cloud Ambient Music Series, curated by Ben Mjolsness (Male), The Whistler, Chicago, June 2010