FRANKIE MARTIN PORTFOLIO
This portfolio offers a selection of recent work in video, photography, and video installation, reflecting my interdisciplinary approach to image-making and installation. Student Portfolio is below.
VIDEO
Dolores, poolside, 2026
5:00 minutes, digital video for multi-channel installation
This video is one in Legacy of Comedy, a multichannel video installation work in progress. In it, I embody my maternal grandparents, including Dolores, poolside. Positioned between personal mythology and speculation, Legacy of Comedy explores how family histories are remembered, reconstructed, and inhabited.
California Seals, 2011
4:30 minutes, single-channel digital video
In the video California Seals, Frankie Martin examines the environmental impact of commercial development in Southern California as well as critically reversing the filmic tropes of female objectification.
Sound design: Ross Karre, Frankie Martin (Mahler First Symphony, Third Movement)
Tuba: Jonathan Piper
INSTALLATION STILLS
Haunting, 2026
3:26 minutes, digital video for installation
Haunting is a video installation for the fifth edition of a participatory community art experience at Surprises in Portales, New Mexico. The work explores what becomes of a house’s soul after it is lost to fire and forgotten by time.
Video by Frankie Martin, Sound design by Forest DerrMartin
PHOTOGRAPHY
Video Still, and Photography. Shot on Pentax K1000, Panasonic Lumix GH4, and iPhone
Surprises: The Birthday Party, 2026 A mixed-media immersive video installation for a participatory art experience.
Surprises: The Birthday Party, 2026 video still
Surprises: The Salon, 2026 video installation with mobiles and watercolor painting
Surprises: The Salon, 2026 video still
Surprises: Haunted, 2026 Video installation shot
Surprises: Haunted, 2026 Video installation shot
Color Party installation, 2013
Color Party video still, 2013
STUDENT WORK
Intro to Photography
Fall 2025 - Fall 2026. Always printed at approximately 8” X 10”.
Film Assignments. Shot with Pentax K1000 using Kodak 400 TX film - digitally scanned and unedited.
Selfies Assignment. Shot on their camera phones, unedited except for cropping.
Assignment: Composites. Shot on Canon EOS Rebel 60D and edited in Photoshop.
Assignment: Color as a focus. Shot on Canon EOS Rebel 60D and edited in Photoshop.
Intro to Filmmaking
General education freshmen completed this work using DSLR cameras and edited it in Adobe Premiere. Fall 2025.
Narrative Slideshow, DSLR camera (silent)
Public Service Announcement with resources and royalty-free sound. DSLR camera, Zoom recorder
Personal Essay with a voiceover, DSLR camera, zoom recorder
Silent Film DSLR camera (silent)
Experimental Filmmaking
Advanced film students completed this work in Fall of 2026, using found footage and original footage shot on a variety of camera types and edited in Adobe Premiere.
Found Footage Assignment
Using a designated found footage folder, make a video using only that material.
Video Poem
In collaboration with a student poet, use original footage to create a non-narrative video that explores a technical manipulation discussed in class.