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PRODUCER/VIDEOGRAPHER/EDITOR
Perry Hallinan has 9 yrs film and video production experience. He is a Rhode Island School of Design graduate (1998) with a BFA in film/video. After graduation he was a full time editor at Northern Lights Production Company in Boston MA. (2000-2001). He edited documentaries and Museum installations for The Smithsonian Institute of Natural History, Court TV and The BBC. As a freelance video producer he has worked for the Nature Conservancy of Canada, The City of San Francisco and the Guide Dog School for the Blind. 3 years ago he founded the video program at Gateway High School a public charter school in San Francisco. As a videographer / media artist and performer Perry has worked with the S.F. Butoh company Salt Farm and the modern dance company Kunst-Stoff. (2003-2005). In the spring of 2004 he began production on a one-hour documentary about the S.F. dance company Kunst-Stoff to be completed spring of 2005. His relationship with Mr. Tanemori began 4 years ago. Perry's contribution to the Silkworm Peace Institute involves documentation of Mr. Tanemori's speaking engagements at high schools, churches, and community centers. In the fall of 2004 Perry and Mr. Tanemori began their project by creating a short Documentary about his spiritual and emotional connection with his guide dog Yuki. Currently Perry is enrolled in Japanese cultural and language courses at SOKO GAKUEN in Japan Town, S.F. in preparation for this summers production in Japan.
HEART OF VISION CREW
SOUND
Jeremy Biddle graduated from Boston University with a B.A. in Computer Science (1997) and has studied Fine Arts and Photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. He is a sound engineer for computer games and is an internet programmer and bicycle rickshaw driver. He speaks Japanese conversationally and has traveled extensively within the country. He lived and worked in an agricultural town, Shintotsukawa, on Japan's northernmost island, Hokkaido, for two years as the local foreigner-in-residence. During that time he was an employee of the Shintotsukawa Board of Education, as a participant in the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program (2001-2003). His responsibilities included teaching English in Shintotsukawa's junior high school and its four elementary schools, as well as holding weekly conversation classes for both kids and adults. His dual role as ambassador of cultural exchange found him participating in festivals and traditions both locally and throughout Hokkaido. He was a volunteer assistant in the production and performance of a traditional Japanese puppet show about Bimbogami, the Japanese God of Poverty.
Tina Gordon is a San Francisco filmmaker and musician. A film-major from The University of California at Santa Cruz, Tina has produced films for over fifteen years. Tina is also a professional drummer and guitar player, with thirteen years of recording and live performance touring experience. She has combined her skills from filmmaking and music in her current role as Public Access production facilitator and workshop instructor. She teaches workshops that cover all aspects of video and audio production from interviews to live music. She oversees studio and field productions daily. Gordon's emphasis is in audio recording and live music production.
MUSICAL SCORE
Rev. Markus Hawkins is a conservatory-trained violist, violinist and composer. He has studied at institutions ranging from Meadowmount to the Saint Louis and Cincinnati Conservatories of Music. He wound his way in 1984 to San Francisco, freelancing in various orchestral ensembles, and offering numerous recitals, including Carnegie Recital Hall (1985). In 1987 Markus and the Performing Arts Society of Contra Costa County commissioned a sonata for viola from Ernst Bacon, who began to lose his sight while working on the piece. Ironically, Markus himself experienced a loss in vision during this period. In 1991, Markus did several performances with legendary Jazz musician Don Cherry and also Cecil Taylor. He soon moved to the heart of the experimental music community after touring with DJ Dante throughout the United States from 1996-1999. It was during this period that Markus began working in genres ranging from American Folk to electronic. He developed pieces that utilize body and violin as instruments while collaborating with Butoh master, Ledoh. (1991-present) He won an Isadora Duncan Dance Award for Music composition and performance. (2004)
LIGHTING
Seng Chen is interested in relationships between spaces. A recent transplant to the Bay Area, Seng spent most of his life in Minnesota where he earned a degree in music from Carleton College. Since 1999, he has worked primarily in commercial photography both behind and in front of the lens. Upon moving to Berkeley in 2002, he sought out positions on motion picture productions to explore different temporal aspects in photography and collaboration. In addition to his commercial endeavours, Seng works in the photo studio at the Asian Art Museum SF and is director of photography at Hyphen, a nonprofit print and internet magazine with an Asian American perspective.
