DIRECTOR STATEMENT

Jimi Pantalon is a native New York freelance editor, filmmaker, and event coordinator. He began working in film at age 16, and graduated from Purchase College Film Conservatory in 2002. Jimi has extensive experience with independent film, having written, directed and edited a series of experimental short films, as well as collaborating with many NYC performance companies.

In 1998 Jimi founded WashMachine Productions. WashMachine Productions experiments with interactive film, incorporating live installation performances with video screenings. WashMachine also provides full production and post-production services and equipment, as well as coordinating and documenting live events, galleries, and performances.

The mission of WashMachine Productions is to collaborate with artists and audiences to create experiences that blend screening, performance and social gathering.

FILMOGRAPHY

CURRENT (work-in-progress)








Stop-Motion collages, artist process portraits, cross-country video-journals, and wartime trashpicker anthem recordings combine for a cultural diagnosis of the American psyche.
2007
80 min. NTSC DV

BRAIN TRAIN








WashMachine street fantasy about Max, a narcoleptic amnesiac squatting beneath NYC subways, who collages a dream journal that opens a portal to alternate worlds of consciousness.
2003-2005
22 min. NTSC DV
{Best Experimental and Excellence in Editing Awards, Arlene’s Picture Show NYC, 2005}
{Short Film Slam Winner, Pioneer Theater, NYC 2005}
{Official Selection: NYC Anthology FIlm Archives, New Filmmakers Program 2005; West Chester, PA Film Festival, 2005; River’s Edge Film Festival 2006; New England Film and Video Festival 2006; Queens Intl. Film Festival 2006; Santa Clarita Street Art Fair 2006; Intl. Festival of Cinema & Technology 2007}

PARADERS








Transcendental editing and improvisational performances combine to create the ultimate visceral experience. Paraders, Max and Jasmine, are strangers linked by telepathic dreams lost in a post-apocalyptic wilderness in which they are forced to confront the harsh reality of their illusions.
2001-2002
10 min. NTSC DV, 16mm

MOSHERS








Renegade-spirit princess, Patti, passes through an underwater portal, and emerges in downtown New York, 1984 Only Stereo the superhero can guide her back home. A WashMachine street fantasy of dancing, death and reincarnation.
2000-2001
10 min. NTSC DV, 16mm

DREAMERS









Self-portrait documenting lucid dream experiments.
1998-99
11 min. 16mm