25/color/Mini-DV, HD/70 min.
Director/Producer
Washington/Oregon

Feature documentary about ‘boy’ identity in women’s prisons.

Website

2024/color/HD/40 min.
Director/Producer
Berlin / Tel Aviv / Prague

Short documentary about a 99-year-old holocaust survivor and her relationship with her granddaughter.

Forthcoming 2022, Springer Press

TIME LAPSE is a book that brings together writings and artwork from artists, scholars, and heritage professionals who presented at the 2014 Innovate Heritage conference in Berlin, with contemporary reflective conversations with their past work/writing/selves.

Innovate Heritage is an international and transdisciplinary research platform that facilitates discourse and knowledge exchange between arts and heritage, uniting artists, scholars, and heritage and arts professionals.

Association

• Innovate Heritage Research Platform

2021/color/HD/26 min.
Producer/Editor
Seattle, WA

A mockumentary documenting the greatest, most accessible, yet simultaneously least-commercially-viable comedy show, featuring Pacific Northwest comedians with disabilities.

Screenings

• Local Sightings Film Festival 2021
• 12th Avenue Arts 2021

Press

• South Seattle Emerald

2018/color/HD/7 min.
Director/Producer
Seattle, WA
SIFF Fly Film Challenge 2018
Produced by Seattle International Film Festival and Washington Film Works

The Resilience of King Khazm tells the story of Khazm, a community leader and artist in Seattle’s hip-hop scene. 

Screenings

• The EVRGRN Channel (2020-present) *WATCH HERE
• Alaskan Airlines SIFF Film Channel (Winter 2018-2019)
• Local Sightings Film Festival, Seattle (Fall 2018)
• Bumbershoot Music Festival, Seattle (Fall 2018)
• SIFF | Seattle International Film Festival (Spring 2018)

2016/color/HD/3 min.
Co-Creator/Producer (Co-Creator: Vonn Jensen)
Seattle, Washington

Short about contrasting bodies/genders, and queerness within disease.

Screenings

• TWIST Film Festival 201
• Winner: TWIST Film Festival 3-Day Film Challenge

2013/color/HD/20 min.
Co-Director
Berlin, Germany | Poznań, Poland

A reflection of cultural overlapping, conservation, and heritage through architecture.

Screening

• Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus

2012/color/Mini-DV, HD/40 min.
Director/Producer
Berlin, Germany

Short about conflict and overlap of identities of people with foreign or mixed national backgrounds in Berlin.

Screenings

• Desiderata Festival 2012
• Who’s Allowed to Make Money? 2020

2012/color/Mini-DV/12 min.
Co-Director/Editor (Co-Director: Svetlana Pall Mall)
Berlin, Germany

Short drag parody of True Blood TV show.

Screenings

• Silver Future 2012
• View Film Here (1,000+ views)

2011/color/Digital/21 min.
Director/Producer
Berlin, Germany | Texas, California, Washington, New York, Arizona

US 1990 Culture Wars between the New Christian Right and protection of federal arts NEA funding.

Screenings

• Goddard College 2011
• Who’s Allowed to Make Money? 2020

2009/color/Mini-DV-NTSC/68 min.
Director/Producer | (Co-Producer/DOP: Margaritte Knezek)
Germany, England, Poland, Serbia, Italy, Denmark, Spain (Canada, USA)

Travel Queeries is a feature-length documentary film that examines the culture, art, and activism of radical queers in contemporary Europe, filmed 2005-2007 and completed in 2009. Travel Queeries hold conversations with queers explaining the first Pride in Serbia, stories around the drag scene in Berlin, the queer anarchist black-lingerie block at London Pride, and Barcelona’s queer squatters organizing the 8th international ‘Queeruption.’

Through personal interviews, documentation of performances, festivals, multi-media arts, and community spaces, the film explores queer as a political identity in 21st century Europe, and how language and identities translate over cultural and physical borders.

A letter of response around race representation in Travel Queeries can be found here with links to sources of critique.

Screenings (40+ screenings in 13 countries)

• London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival- UK (March 26 & 27, 09) *international premiere
• Race, Privilege & Identity- Bristol, UK (April 24-26, 09)
• Ladyfest Helsinki- Finland (May 15/17, ’09)
• Entzaubert: Queer DIY Film Festival- Berlin, Germany (June 4-7, 09)
• Off_Pride (alt. to Euro Pride)– Zurich, Switzerland (June 5-7, 09)
• Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival- Israel (June 23-27, 09) *middle east premiere
• Barcelona “MosTrans” Transgender/Intersex Film Festival- Spain (June 22-26, 09)
• Frankfurt CSD Queer Cafe/Ladyfestgroup Film Program- Germany (July 18, 09)
• Queer Festival Copenhagen- Denmark (July 20-26, 09)
• Queer Festival Aalborg- Denmark (August 11-15, 09)
• Vancouver Queer Film Festival- Canada (August 13-23, 09) *North American Premiere
• Queer Festival Olso- Norway (August 20-23, 09)
• Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival- US (October 16-25, 09) *US Premiere
• Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival- US (October 15-25)
• IDKE: International Drag King Extravaganza- Tucsan, AZ, US (October 21-25)
• Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg- Germany (October 20-25, 09)
• VinoKino Lesbian and Gay Film Festival- Turku, Finland (October 23rd- November 1, 09)
• Ladyfest Zagreb- Croatia (October 30-November 10, 09)
• Theatrical Screening, ‘Sputnik’ Berlin- Germany (Nov. 12-15, 09)
• Riot Skirts Cinema- Bonn, Germany (November 29, 09)
• Paris LGBT Film Festival “Cheries-Cheris”- France (November 16-22, 09)
• MIX NYC queer experimental film festival- US (November 20th, 7:30pm)
• STEPS International Rights Film Festival- Ukraine (Dec. 12-19, 09)
• Bildwechsel/Lesbisch Schwule Filmtage Hamburg – Germany (Dec. 19/20, 09)
• Williams College Queer Film Festival- US (January 15, 2010)
• Red Dawns Queer Feminist Festival- Slovenia (March 4-8, 2010)
• LohMühle, Berlin Germany (March 10th, 2010)
• Le Kremlin squat- Grenoble, France (March 12, 2010)
• Queeristan 2010 Festival- Amsterdam, Netherlands (March 27, 10)
• Olympia Film Society- US (April 3, 2010)
• RAW CUT Film Festival- Warsaw, Poland (April 31-May 2, 10)
• Queer Transfestival- Göteborg, Sweden (May 14, 10)
• Queer Film Trilogie with Onderbelicht- Nijmegen, Netherlands (May 19, 10)
• 4th Grožnjan International Spring School in Sex Research- Croatia (May 21-23, 10)
• Bash Back 2010- Denver, US (May 27-30, 10)
• The Bend-It Extravaganza- Seattle, US (June 25, 10)
• Cork Film Festival- Cork, Ireland (Nov. 14, 10)
• Queer It Up Festival- Maastricht, Netherlands (Feb. 15-20, 11)
• Gender*Queer*Workshop, University of Saarbrücken- Germany (June 30- July 1, 11)
• Ladyfest Mülheim- Germany (Sept. 15-18, 11)
• Seattle Queer Film Festival *10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY (Oct 10-20, 19)

Collaborators

• Layana Flachs Richard (Cupcake)

• Hedi Mohr

• Hans Kellet (Princessin Hans)

• Jullian Drues (Svetlana Palmal)

• Catalina Jordan Alvarez (Cowgirl Annie)

Sir La Muse is a drag queen performance art persona primarily performed in Berlin. Mixing original audio with recorded music and live song, Sir La Muse has done lip-syncing to birds singing, to critical dicourse about the universe inside people’s mouths, mania of shoes, introspections on insect intimacies, and songs of melancholy and triumph. Sir La Muse has hosted cabarets in Germany and Denmark, starred in short films, and performed at Universities and festivals throughout Europe and the US.

Performance Venues

• Richard Hugo House (US)
• Queeruption Barcelona (ES)
• Barbie Deinhoff's (DE)
• Copenhagen Queer Festival (DK)
• Luxx (DE)
• Køpi (DE)
• University of Vienna (AUS)
• University of Saarbrüken (DE)
• Aalborg Queer Festival (DK)
• FTM vs HIV / Berlin Schwules Museum (DE)
• Femme Hive Conference / Schwuz (DE)
• Femmetasia / Rainier Cultural Center (US)
• Special Friends Cabaret / Monster Ronson’s (DE)
• Mit Mach Show (DE)

2005/color/VHSC-NTSC/28 min.
Director/Editor/DOP
Barcelona, Spain | Seattle, USA

Documentary about international radical queer gathering ‘Queeruption’ in Barcelona.

Screening

• X-B Liebig Berlin 2005

2005/color/VHSC-NTSC/10 min.
Co-Director/Editor | (Co-Creator/Director: Jane Bond)
Seattle, WA

A short film about a dirty queer bike gang and random encounters.

Screenings

• The Stranger 2005 *founding year
• X-B Liebig Berlin 2005

Collaborators
Crystal Liston
Jen Hough

The Bellejens was a performance art cover band with Jen Hough on vocals and guitar, Elliat Graney-Saucke on vocals, and Crystal Liston on backup. The band performed a selection of acoustic folk-pop covers while behind them such things took place as the making of waffles, bubble mowers, pickup lines on shirts, and the occasional xylophone chiming in.

Performance Venues

• 12 Min Max / On the Boards (Seattle)
• The Showbox (Seattle)

2003/color/VHSC-NTSC/8 min.
Co-Director/Editor | (Co-Creator/Director: Margaritte Knezek)
Seattle, WA

Instructional Portuguese language video with a queer-centric lens.

Screening

• The Little Theater Fest 2003

2003/B&W/VHSC-NTSC/3.5 min.
Director
Seattle, WA

Inquiries around hair and how we carry ourselves in gendered expectations.

Screening

• The Little Theater Fest 2003

2003/B&W/VHSC-NTSC/3.5 min.
Co-Creator/Actor (with Michael Lucid, Scream Club, and Rogue La Roc)
Seattle, WA

Mockumentary of riot grrrl, zine/fat positive culture in Capitol Hill nightlife.

2002/color/Mini-DV/10min.
Collective Director/Storyboarding (with Eliza Steinbock and Devon Devine)
Olympia, WA

Faceless expressions of self, public/private life, fantasy, and silence.

Screening

• The Evergreen State College 2002

2002/color/VHSC-NTSC/10 min.
Director/Editor
Houston, TX

Film trilogy exploring sibling relationships through monologue and animation.

Screening

• Diverse Works 2002
• Turn Up the Volume: Artist Residency (hosted by Diverse Works, led by Barbara Bickart)

2001/color/Super 8/1:30 min.
Co-Director/Animator (Co-Directed by Lindsey Boldt)
Olympia, WA

An animation where dolls come alive when no one is home.

Screening

• Olympia Film Society 2001 (Olympia Film Ranch)

Soundtrack

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The Transfused is a post-apocalyptic queer rock opera written by Nomy Lamm and The Need that took place with a full cast in Olympia, WA in 2000.

The show featured Nomy Lamm and Emily Stern with Molly Robertson, Beth Stinson, Rosalinda Noriega, Andras Jones, Jerry Beard, Tammy Martin, Elliat Graney-Saucke, Zack Carlson, Anna Oxygen, Mirah Yom Toz Zeitlyn, Asa Thorton, and musicians Donna Dresch and Scott Seckington, and many, many more…

Nikki McClure and Tae Won Yu were also vital as the sets and design directors. The stage Direction, Makeup and Choreography was by Freddie Perry and E.T. Russian.

Performance Venue

• The Capitol Theater (Olympia)

More Information

• Last FM
• 20th Anniversary

Still With Us contains 23 stories of sibling suicide loss survivors who, after experiencing devastating losses, navigated through their grief and found a path forward. The essays in Still With Us are arranged chronologically to move the reader from the first years of grieving to decades of healing. The authors commemorate the love that they continue to have for their siblings by telling us stories of grief, support, and strength.

Published

• BDI Publishers, Edited by Lena M.Q. Heilmann

Still With Us contains 23 stories of sibling suicide loss survivors who, after experiencing devastating losses, navigated through their grief and found a path forward. The essays in Still With Us are arranged chronologically to move the reader from the first years of grieving to decades of healing. The authors commemorate the love that they continue to have for their siblings by telling us stories of grief, support, and strength.

Published

• BDI Publishers, Edited by Lena M.Q. Heilmann

1998/color/VHS/4 min.
Co-Director/Editor (Co-Directed by Asa Brown Thornton)
Olympia, WA

Stories about people’s shoes with POV street interviews.

Screening

• The Evergreen State College

1998/color/VHS/30 min.
Co-Director/Editor (Co-Directed by Asa Brown Thornton)
Olympia, WA

Documentary montage of middle school graduating class.

Screening

• Jefferson MS