CURATED PUBLIC SCREENINGS

PALM SPRINGS CULTURAL CENTER/CAMELOT THEATRES

Forthcoming

“Holiday Oddities 5: Let’s Get Animated!” Film screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs, CA, December 17, 2026.

Past

“Where Were You In 1976? A Look Back at Bicentennial Cinema.” Film series curated with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs, CA, June and October 2026. I curated and edited the Bicentennial/1976-themed pre-shows.

“Looking for Lesbians: Queer Female Identity in Alternate Film Histories.” Screening and presentation for Lesbian Visibility Week with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs, CA, April 22, 2026.

“Holiday Oddities 4 (The 2025 “Who needs a drink?” edition.).” Film screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs, CA, December 18, 2025.

“Home Movies Out of the Closet: LGBTQ+, Hollywood, Palm Springs, and You.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron, in collaboration with LGBTQ+ History and Archives of the Desert and Palm Springs Cultural Center, at the Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs, CA, June 1, 2025.

“Holiday Oddities 3.” Film screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs, CA, December 22, 2024.

“Holiday Oddities 2.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Cultural Center, Palm Springs, CA, December 20, 2023. Trailer.

“Cinema on Ice” film series for the Palm Springs Cultural Center, January and February 2024.

“From the Archives: Art, Design, and the Look of Optimism,” screening and presentation, April 11, 2023. Trailer.

“Holiday Oddities,” screening and presentation, December 20, 2022. Trailer.

MODERNISM WEEK

Forthcoming

“New to You: Watching Other People’s Home Movies with Deserted Films.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 17, 2027.

Past

“Home Movie Jukebox with Deserted Films.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 17 and 21, 2026.

“Palm Springs Plays Itself: A Vintage Home Movie Cocktail Hour with Deserted Films.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 19, 2025.

“Everyone in the Car!”–California Roadside Amusements Vintage Home Movie Cocktail Hour with Deserted Films.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 17 and 22, 2025.

“Palm Springs Plays Itself: A Vintage Home Movie Cocktail Hour with Deserted Films,” presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Modernism Week, Palm Springs, CA, February 21, 2024.

“Home Movie Day, Palm Springs,” online experience co-hosted with Dr. Devin Orgeron, April 15-May 31, 2021.

PALM SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY

Forthcoming

“Deserted Films Presents: The Merry Merry Mix Up.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Public Library, Palm Springs, CA, December 15, 2026.

Past

“Eat, Drink and Be Merry: Vintage Holiday Dining, Drinking, and other Delights from TV and Film.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Public Library, Palm Springs, CA, December 10, 2025.

“Deserted Films Presents: Made by a Woman.” Lecture in celebration of Women’s History Month and Amateur Movie Day with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Public Library, Palm Springs, CA, March 12, 2025.

“Celebrity Holiday Special Showcase: The Judy Garland Christmas Show (1963) + Some Treasures from the Deserted Films Archive.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Public Library, Palm Springs, CA, December 18, 2024.

“Ask a librarian: The Role of the Library in Film and Media.” Presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Public Library, Palm Springs, CA, April 10, 2024.

“Black History / Black Media – Celebrating Black History Month Through Film.” Presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Palm Springs Public Library, Palm Springs, CA, February 28, 2024.

“A (Not Just) Christmas TV Time Machine.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron, Palm Springs Public Library, December 13, 2023.

“Thanks for the Memories: The Importance of Home Movies,” presentation and screening with Dr. Devin Orgeron, Palm Springs Public Library, Palm Springs, CA, February 22, 2023.

“Domestic Archeology: Seeing the World Through Home Movies” screening of home movies and lecture on their connection to the film industry. With Dr. Devin Orgeron. Welwood Murray Memorial Library location) November 19, 2019.

NATIONAL DATE FESTIVAL, SALON FOR THE PARCHED and OTHER LOCAL VENUES/CLUBS

“National Date Festival: Home Movies & Photographs by Visitors, 1940s – 1970s.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Riverside County Fair and National Date Festival, Indio, CA, February 16 and 26, 2026.

“Palm Springs Plays Itself.” Screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Seven Lakes Country Club, Palm Springs, CA, January 18, 2026.

Presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron to the Indio Rotary Club at Fantasy Springs Event Center, Indio, CA, January 7, 2025.

“(A) Home (Full of) Movies: In the Living Room with Deserted Films.” Film screening and presentation with Dr. Devin Orgeron at Salon for the Parched, Palm Springs, CA, April 18, 2024.

DESERT FILM SOCIETY

“Archival Screening Night Roadshow” screening co-host and discussion with Dr. Devin Orgeron, May 2, 2020 [Postponed due to Covid-19, pre-recorded intro for online screening June 13].

The Best of Dorien B.  screening and discussion, January 18, 2020.

Gaspard at the Wedding screening and discussion, August 31, 2019.

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY
HUNT LIBRARY

“Local History through the Camera Lens” screening featuring the State Archives of North Carolina’s Century Film Collection. Speaker, researcher, organizer, and promotion. Curated and digitized films with vendor (A/V Geeks), wrote captions, and edited highlights clip reel. Panel discussion with Dr. Devin Orgeron, associate professor of Film Studies at NC State, Kim Andersen of the State Archives, and Skip Elsheimer (A/V Geeks), October 2015. Century Film Studios screening trailer

PERSONAL

“A Bit of Inspiration from Deserted Films.” Northeast Historic Film Symposium, Bucksport, ME, July 2023

“Carol Lane’s tourette, Traveling with Children (1954),” Orphan Film Symposium: All-Television Edition, UCLA, April 21-22, 2023

“Touring Gets a Woman’s Touch: Shell Oil’s Midcentury Travel Advisor, Carol Lane,” presentation, Salon for the Parched, Palm Springs, CA, January 11, 2023

“Introduction” videographic essay screening from dissertation project, Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Seattle, WA, March 2019 

“FOUND installATION” video Installation at Foundation. Curated and edited films. Raleigh, NC, Summer-Fall 2016

Cue the Women: Public Access Cable Early 1970s – 1980s. Video essay. Raleigh Television Network, Channel 10 (April 2015)

TriFilm Social/FilmSpark event. Curated, wrote captions, and edited digitized films for outreach screening of archival films via contact with Triangle-area institutions: Duke University, State Archives of North Carolina, A/V Geeks plus the Prelinger Archives. Raleigh, NC, September 15, 2013

“Teens in Trouble – A Look at Old Educational Films.” Lecture/screening. Co-presenter with Skip Elsheimer of A/V Geeks. Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Cambridge, MA, October 2012

ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS

“Girls on Film: Juliette Gordon Low and the Girl Scouts.” Screening and panel. Curated and edited digitized films. Co-chair, with Devin Orgeron of North Carolina State University. Association of Moving Image Archivists annual conference, October 2014

Mobile Media Screening. Co-chair with Stephen Parr. Contacted filmmakers and curated videos for screening. Association of Moving Image Archivists annual conference, November 2008

UCLA Student Chapter Treasurer. Co-programmed and secured funding for the “Out of the Past” screenings of restored films. 2004-2006

SCHLESINGER LIBRARY | RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE | HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Film Committee. 2008-2013 (Chair 2009-2012). Co-curated series line-up along a theme; coordinated volunteers; outreach and publicity to Harvard community, local press, and community groups; balanced budget; public speaking and introductions; booked speakers in collaboration with other committee members.

Radcliffe Institute Events. Edited and presented audiovisual materials for two Radcliffe Institute’s Black History Month celebrations (2010-2011) and the Institute’s tenth-year anniversary staff luncheon (2009)

EXHIBITS

SOUTHERN ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM

Collaborated on Mapping Voices of North Carolina’s Past

ASSOCIATION OF MOVING IMAGE ARCHIVISTS

AMIA 25th Anniversary Oral History Interviews. Conducted videotaped oral histories with AMIA members in commemoration of the Association’s 25th anniversary. November 2015

NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY HUNT LIBRARY

“Local History through the Camera Lens Exhibit.” Researched, co-developed, co-designed, and executed physical exhibit and accompanying website; in-class instruction; digitized films with A/V Geeks. Graduate students and advanced undergraduates in Dr. Devin Orgeron’s Seminar in Nonfiction Media (ENG 585 / Fall 2015) were assigned films from the collection, which they then researched, establishing a context for understanding proprietor O.B. Garris’ work and the historical moment during which they were produced. Video proxies of original 16mm films played alongside related archival documents and their written texts. iPearl Immersion Theater at the James B. Hunt Jr. Library, North Carolina State University. November-December 2015

SCHLESINGER LIBRARY | RADCLIFFE INSTITUTE

Curated, wrote captions, and edited video/audio materials for exhibit kiosks; project managed and coordinated with the vendor; collaborated with committee on overall theme and appearance of exhibits; brought audiovisual kiosk up to ADA compliance for the sight and hearing impaired. (Reels available upon request.)

• “Stepping Stones for New Americans” (Spring/2013)
• “Siting Julia” (Fall/2012)
• “Women on the Clock” (Fall/2011),”
• “Inside/Out: The Geography of Gendered Space” (Spring/2010)

EXHIBITS — PERSONAL WORK

• Unbound: Documentary As Art. The Carrack, Durham, NC. October 2017
• N.E.W. Show. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC. September 2015
• BERSERK. Visual Art Exchange, Raleigh, NC. April 2014
• Pencil + Pen Exhibit. Online. 2013-Present
• Radcliffe Institute art show. Cambridge, MA. 2010-2013
• Archivist-Filmmaker screening. AMIA annual conference, Savannah, GA. 2008
• Cellular Photography Show. New Community ArtSpace. Washington, DC. 2008
• Discovery Communications Holiday Art Show/Sale. Silver Spring, MD. 2006
• Whitney Young Cultural Art Center Holiday Art Show. San Francisco, CA. 2003
• “Orgy.” Melting Point Gallery. Group show. San Francisco, CA. 2002
• Z Center Gallery. Group show. San Francisco, CA. 2002
• Senior project. “FEAR.” University of California, Berkeley. 2000