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“Watching Genevieve’s films, and the worlds they evoke, give me the distinct impression that I am seeing right into someone’s private inner world, a place where the characters and situations were the direct embodiments of the feelings for the events and not simply their visual, dramatic representations. This indicates to me that her impressive technical skill is in service to something else.” - BILL VIOLA
FEATURE FILMS
DUSTWUN
My first live-action feature shot over 10 days on an active migrant crossing site 30 miles from the US/Mexico border. DUSTWUN is a military acronym for Duty, Status, Whereabouts Unknown, which describes both the fallen veteran living off grid building a “wall” from trash to keep the bad guys out, and the young, lost migrant desperate to save her young son. A stripped-to-the-bones fable about compassion in an unlikely friendship.
TOO LOUD A SOLITUDE (in development)
With a grant from the Rockefeller Media Artist Foundation, I began developing this wonderful book by Bohumil Hrabal. We made the 17-minute scene sample with the help of Heather Henson and Handmade Puppet Dreams. We had an amazing crew of technicians and talented puppeteers, including Isidore Mankofsy, who shot the original Muppet Movie. We have been developing the feature, starring the inimitable Paul Giamatti, for many years. With advances in technology, we have been able to digitize the puppets and create a rich palette to realize this timeless story using techniques old and new.
MONA LINA (in development)
Mona Lina is a female-centric psychological thriller based on the stunning play by JB Miller. A haunting story of an aged painter on the cusp of suicide visited by a young curator from the Tate in search of the famous painting that drove her to madness.
SHORT FILMS
OLA’S BOX OF CLOVERS
My third film with puppets. A tribute to my wonderful, cantankerous grandmother. I wanted to make a short film that would be experienced like a poem, exploring the parts of her I never got to know and how they relate to my own life. Shot on 35mm.
SUNLIGHT
My second and most personal film. I loved working on this film alone in a huge warehouse (again, thank you Sean Casey) for hours on end. It was a magnificent exploration creating a world out of cardboard stolen from dumpsters, my trusty glue gun, and old junk. I edited the film at night after everyone at Graphic Films had gone home, drinking loads of coffee and stealing naps on an old couch until everyone returned in the morning. I created all of the sound and foley in that space as well. Shot on old 16mm.
BOXED
My first film. I made this film after being stranded and stalked by a crazy man in a very remote Mexican village. My friend Sean Casey created a film festival for his film school friends (I was in the theater dept.) where they could use all of the equipment at his father’s company (Graphic Films) to make a short. Sean was cool enough to let me use their camera and the hill outside the back of the building and give it a shot. I had no idea what I was doing – all I had was a story, a glue gun, and my amazing friends. Shot on video and transferred to 16mm.
PUPPET REEL
