The video presents three women wandering the nocturnal expanse of Death Valley in nude-toned suits, their bodies visually assimilated into the desert as they enact enigmatic, quasi-ritualistic gestures devoid of explicit causality or outcome.
2004
This video was made in collaboration with Cory Arcangel inspired by a dinner date with our blogger friends bloggy.com and jameswagner.com.
IN THIS EPISODE, FRANIQUOAH HAS A MASSIVE BREAKDOWN AFTER HAVING BEEN TRAPPED IN THE INTERNET FOR SO LONG.
California Seals
4 minutes 30 seconds HDV
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.
Boxed is a conversation with Joe Mariglio, site-specific to be exhibited on a flat-screen HDTV. This piece refers to the monitor itself as a device of containment, as the actors imagine themselves literally inside this virtual space.
In this piece, Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli's painted Venus is reborn (again and again) as video.
In this episode Franiquoah gets an E-Male which contains supplies and a message from E-Male. Despite receiving an E-Male, Franiquoah's struggle with lonliness continues and she searches for a creative outlet. Franiquoah uses her new supplies to make a painting to adorn the internet.
In this episode of Trapped in the Web, Franiquoah fears that the internet has become haunted. If you listen closely, you will find that it actually is terribly haunted. Trapped in the web explores themes of isolation and loneliness in the digital age, making use of the now-defunct Facebook poke feature at the dawn of Instagram doomscrolling.
This is a long edit of a scene entitled Color Party, from the feature-length movie WE ARE WILD DOGS WITH TURQUOISE FUR LAUGHING AT FULL MOONS.
starring Leslie Leytham, Megan Welsh, and Frankie Martin
Composed by Robert Pierzak. Performed by Robert Pierzak on vox and Eric Derr on timpani. Video by Frankie Martin.
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.
This is a music video for the legendary band MEN, directed and produced by Frankie Martin.