My experimental video art practice explores how moving images inhabit, challenge, and extend the exhibition space. Most of my video work exists within installations where images engage with objects, space, and the viewer’s presence. Because of this, I rarely present video works as standalone pieces on my website. Instead, they appear as installation documentation - a partial glimpse of work that can only be fully experienced in the room. Guided by feminist ideology, I create work that explores family, the twisting of social expectations, and humor, often disguised in vibrant color and a playful energy.

This is a still from 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.

woman doing the back float in a magenta lit pool with a wiggly flower overlay

Dolores, poolside, 2026

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  • Endangered Banana

    Endangered Banana

    Composed by Robert Pierzak. Performed by Robert Pierzak on vox and Eric Derr on timpani. Video by Frankie Martin.

  • Twinsies

    Twinsies

    Composed by Clinton McCallum

    Performed by Berglind Tómasdóttir and Leslie Leytham

  • Flute and Red Nails

    Flute and Red Nails

    By Frankie Martin and Berglind Tomasdottir.  2011

    In their collaborative sound and video work, Flute and Red Nails, Frankie Martin and Berglind Tomasdottir explore the compositional and sonic limitations of the flute.