Ripe red tomatoes. A clinical examination of brain tissue. Pudgy baby feet swinging high above the ground. What do these images have in common? They can all be seen in Her Heart is Washed in Water & then Weighed, an irreducibly complex meditation on monuments and mortality that takes its title from a procedure in the autopsying of a human corpse. Filmed in Super 8 and 16mm in Rome, Italy and Iowa City, Iowa, Her Heart is Washed in Water & then Weighed also features the Coliseum, my back yard and a story about roast chicken. When you die, everything you know - including this - disappears.

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The Waiting Time is a first-person experimental documentary exploration of desire, conception, and the long waiting time
of gestation. It is a study of a year in my body at age 35, becoming a mother for the first time. I hope it is a 'thinking woman's' sex education film.

The Waiting Time unsentimentally struggles with personal and cultural associations with the ‘maternal’ and is a feminist attempt to address and articulate the question of maternal subjectivity – the experience of motherhood for the mother herself.

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Whipped is a behind-the-scenes look at the everyday lives of Carrie, Sonya and Ava -- three New York City dominatrixes. The film explores the potential for and limitations of female empowerment in the sex industry.

Following its premiere at the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema in 1998, Whipped screened at the Florida Film Festival, Chicago Underground, New Orleans Film Festval, Cinequest, Louisville Film Festival and Clair-Obscur in Basel among other venues. Whipped screened on the Sundance Channel in Fall 2003.

A likeable, low-key demystification of a potentially lurid subject...Whipped doesn't exploit theme for snarky laughs or softcore titillation.
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety

Whipped provides insight into the dynamics of domination and submission, and ultimately the themes of fear and intimacy, identity and fantasy, and desire for love.
--Sally Berger, Asst. Curator of Film, Museum of Modern Art