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The Lucky Club  The Lucky Club traces the relationship of 13-year-old Cindy and 30-year-old gambler, Mr. Randall. Based on a true story, the work interweaves documentary interviews, fictional narrative, and actual letters and diary entries to craft a contemporary ghost story. Selected Works Film Language Lessons (2002, co-director)
Loss Prevention (2000, co-director) O Night Without Objects, a Trilogy (1998, co-director) Conversations Across the Bosphorous (1995) Involuntary Conversion (1991) Nomads at the 25 Door (1991) Against A Single Match, the Darkness Flinches (1988) Installation A Wing and a Prayer (2002, co-creator)
Trial of Harmony and Invention (2001, co-creator) The Adventures of Blacky (1999, co-creator) Which Man Runs? Which Man Sits Still at Home? (1990) Accomplishments Jeanne C. Finley is an artist and filmmaker whose work ranges from experimental to documentary forms. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), the Whitney Museum (New York) and the Georges Pompidou Center (Paris). Her award-winning films have been screened at film and video festivals in the United States and abroad, including the San Francisco International Film Festival; the Toronto International Film Festival; the Fringe Film & Video Festival, Edinburgh; the Muu Media Festival, Helsinki; and the Berlin Video Festival. She has been honored with a variety of awards and grants, including an Alpert/Cal Arts Award in Film/Video, 1999; Xerox Parc Artist Fellowship, Palo Alto, CA, 1995; John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, 1994; and a Fulbright Fellowship to Yugoslavia, 1989. She is a professor of Media Studies at the California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco.
Education 1982 MFA, Photography, University of Arizona, Tucson
1977 BA, Aesthetic Studies/Photography, University of California, Santa Cruz Web Site News October, November, December 2007 Jeanne Finley and David Muse’s
four channel video installation Flat Land
was exhibited at
San Francisco Camerawork’s gallery through
October and November. This piece explores the visual culture of men and
women at war by looking at publicly available images of "Flat Daddies"
(life-size cut-outs of soldiers that are carried through daily
activities by families and friends back home), and "Flat Stanleys"
(small cut-outs of a cartoon boy, sent by American school children on adventures around the world, sometimes to war zones). July, August, September 2007 Jeanne Finley and John Muse’s
four channel video installation Flat Land is
exhibited at San
Francisco Camerawork’s gallery from September
through November. This piece explores the visual culture of men and
women at war by looking at publicly available images of "Flat Daddies"
(life-size cut-outs of soldiers that are carried through daily
activities by families and friends back home), and "Flat Stanleys"
(small cut-outs of a cartoon boy, sent by American school children on adventures around the world, sometimes to war zones). January, February, March 2007 Jeanne Finley and John Muse’s Lost
screened at the New York
Underground Film Festival in March. Their experimental short
documentary uses original video footage to reframe an audio diary entry
that describes the shooting of an Iraqi by American soldiers and
efforts to assist the Iraqi's widow. |
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