Knee Jerk is a moving image work that was made in the advanced processing workshop of the personal cinema class at the San Francisco Art Institute that I taught in fall 2018. Educational film material was hand-processed, manipulated and re-contextualized by the voices of women at the U.S. Supreme Court justice's confirmation hearing in 2018. Reproductive rights are in graver peril than they've been since I was a toddler. A slew of states in the Midwestern and Southern U.S. have passed horribly restrictive laws designed to bring a Supreme Court challenge to Roe v. Wade, and now the Senate confirmed perhaps the most anti-choice justice yet nominated.

Students who participated in this workshop include:

Sarah Aineb

Colleen Donovan

Daniella Parrado

Izabell Navarro Perez

Gautama Ramesh

Sequinette

Screenings include: Pacific Film Archive, (online), the Museum of Human Achievement curated by Experimental Response Cinema in Austin, Texas, Engauge Film Festival in Seattle, WA, Experiments in Cinema (on-line) , Artists' Television Access, Other Cinema, and the San Francisco Art Institute.