Lake Ivan Exists. Episode #21: The Bathroom (2001) 29 minutes

Directed by David Finkelstein
Created and performed by David Finkelstein and James Martin
Videography: Eileen White
Music: Bob Goldberg
Editing and visual design: David Finkelstein

Description:

Two actors, a musician, and a videographer use an improvisational process to respond to the experience of being inside a bathroom which has been decorated to look like an ornate Roman bathhouse. They create a multilayered, poetic meditation on cleanliness, disease, infection and death. A journey into an inner landscape of painful, revelatory visions, inspired by the death of the director's mother, which had occured a few weeks before the improvisation was videotaped.

Lake Ivan Exists. Episode #37: Starfield (2001) 29 minutes

Directed by David Finkelstein
Created and performed by David Finkelstein, Agnes de Garron, and James Martin
Videography: MANOISECA
Music: Bob Goldberg
Editing and visual design: David Finkelstein

Description:

Two speaking actors and one silent drag queen improvise a meditation on the safety found in darkness and the pain of illumination. The actors take the viewer on a journey into some of the weirder regions of their inner worlds, including the cave of a priestess who ritually burns magical herbs and an explanation of the liberating effect of cubes of jello.

Lake Ivan Exists. Episode #47: Mardi Gras (2002)
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Created and performed by David Finkelstein, Agnes de Garron, and James Martin
Videography: MANOISECA
Music: Bob Goldberg
Music mixed by: Ian Hill
Lighting: Cassandra Weston
Editing and visual design: David Finkelstein

Description:

In this video, based on footage from a fully improvised performance at New York's Nada theater on Mardi Gras, 2000, two speaking actors and one silent drag queen meditate on the masks that hide and reveal our inner selves. The video takes us on a journey into an inner landscape, which includes a dangerous French handbag with a hasp that sprouts blades, a visit to a mystical peepshow, and an evil queen who curses the New York City recycling program.

Lake Ivan Exists. Episode #30: The Artificial (2002) 29 minutes

Directed by: David Finkelstein
Director of Photography: Eileen White
Created and performed by: David Finkelstein, Agnes de Garron and James Martin
Editing and visual design: David Finkelstein
Music by: Bob Goldberg
Technical Director: Gloria Messer
Floor Manager: Tom Reid
Camera Operators: Stan Lowe, Tom Reid and Pamela Stemberg

Description:

Two speaking actors and one silent drag queen improvise a meditation on shame, artifice, and ecstasy. The video takes us on a journey into an inner landscape, which includes a description of the desserts offered to pilgrims visiting a mystical shrine, a feather duster which makes apartments dirtier rather than cleaner, and a mysterious tapping sound which ruins a nights' sleep.

Radiant Emanators (2003) 19 minutes

Directed by: David Finkelstein
Created and performed by: David Finkelstein and James Martin
Music by: David Finkelstein, James Martin and Steve Sandberg
Music edited by David Finkelstein
Editing and visual design: David Finkelstein

WINNER: Best of Festival: Experimental
Berkeley Video and Film Festival

Description:

A holy scripture appears floating in outer space. It is covered with text, copiously illustrated, which refers to a wide range of fanciful incidents, including Walt Whitman's trip down the Long Island Expressway, the trials of a pregnant teenager, and ballerinas who stuff their toe shoes with newspaper, among many other things. An illuminated manuscript, based on a fully improvised performance, Radiant Emanators meditates on the effect of uneven sources of light on written texts, and on the way our uneven interpretations of our own cultural texts determine our views on genocide, sexual freedom, and our general consciousness.

Music videos:

Saltwater by B-Blush
Right to Surrender and The Sickness of Beauty by Yolanda and the Plastic Family, featured on the PrideVision cable network
Honoring the Ancestors by Steve Sandberg, featured at the Outmusic Awards ceremony, and on the PBS program "Under the Pink Carpet."
Island Song by Romanovsky and Phillips, featured at the Outmusic Awards ceremony, and on the PBS program "Under the Pink Carpet."
Armaan by Steve Sandberg, extended video of images to accompany Steve's shamanistic digital improv music.

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