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

Haunting, 2026

I conceived Haunting as a video installation for the fifth edition of a participatory community event at my studio, Surprises 5.0: Haunted in Portales, New Mexico. The work explores what becomes of a house’s soul after it is lost to fire and forgotten by time.
desnudas, 2025

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.
private_eyes.mid, 2004

2004
This video was made in collaboration with Cory Arcangel inspired by a dinner date with our blogger friends bloggy.com and jameswagner.com.
Trapped in the Web Episode Blue 3, 2011

IN THIS EPISODE, FRANIQUOAH HAS A MASSIVE BREAKDOWN AFTER HAVING BEEN TRAPPED IN THE INTERNET FOR SO LONG.
California Seals, 2011

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, 2012

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.
Born Again 2009

In this piece, Florentine artist Sandro Botticelli's painted Venus is reborn (again and again) as video.
EPISODE BLUE 2: E-MALE, 2011

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.
EPISODE BLUE1 : THIS SHIT IS HAUNTED, 2011

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.
Color Party, 2012

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
Twinsies

Composed by Clinton McCallum
Performed by Berglind Tómasdóttir and Leslie Leytham
Endangered Banana

Composed by Robert Pierzak. Performed by Robert Pierzak on vox and Eric Derr on timpani. Video by Frankie Martin.
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.
Credit Card Babies Stereogamous Remixx, 2010

This is a music video for the legendary band MEN, directed and produced by Frankie Martin.