Hazel Katz

Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com Hazel Katz Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:48:32 +0000 https://hazelscomputer.com en RAINBOW COLLAR https://hazelscomputer.com/RAINBOW-COLLAR Sun, 02 Feb 2025 20:48:32 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/RAINBOW-COLLAR RAINBOW COLLAR <img width="1646" height="1376" width_o="1646" height_o="1376" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/155499db51c76a2d87cdf9549afd28d0e0b5285860b68dd0742b243021a29fa5/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5.35.15PM.png" data-mid="225907399" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/155499db51c76a2d87cdf9549afd28d0e0b5285860b68dd0742b243021a29fa5/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5.35.15PM.png" /> <img width="1712" height="1328" width_o="1712" height_o="1328" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1e49abb428c64391bc885d42e2173e8145add029e30d244f780a265a64bed30d/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5.36.14PM.png" data-mid="225907397" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1e49abb428c64391bc885d42e2173e8145add029e30d244f780a265a64bed30d/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5.36.14PM.png" /> Angela and Zayd’s best friendship is at stake when they both become radicalized during a labor strike at their transgender healthcare nonprofit.[feature length narrative film in development]Pitch Deck <img width="1406" height="1278" width_o="1406" height_o="1278" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e36f3de482f6719a20bd69db1324e9263b836e2e96655e67c9a08bcdb37579fe/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5.35.49PM.png" data-mid="225907398" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e36f3de482f6719a20bd69db1324e9263b836e2e96655e67c9a08bcdb37579fe/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5.35.49PM.png" /> <img width="1730" height="1126" width_o="1730" height_o="1126" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/445c92911858bb30ae450e3d7759f1ec68902b830adc7411f28a666e181c04a1/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5.51.15PM.png" data-mid="225907659" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/445c92911858bb30ae450e3d7759f1ec68902b830adc7411f28a666e181c04a1/Screenshot-2025-02-02-at-5.51.15PM.png" /> WHO GETS TO FLY https://hazelscomputer.com/WHO-GETS-TO-FLY Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:17:55 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/WHO-GETS-TO-FLY WHO GETS TO FLY is a multichannel video installation meandering through a cultural history of birds. The project examines the primary human-avian contradiction, that birds are deployed as both symbols of settler empire and emblems of anti-colonial resistance. [work-in-progress]   Exhibitions Anthology Film Archives Bemis Center  500 Capp Street w/ yétúndé ọlágbajú The Emily Harvey Foundation <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6df79622c5db99df658a1af18126363cb1401adaececadbd47140ec132c4bfc8/IMG_5114.jpg" data-mid="225906628" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6df79622c5db99df658a1af18126363cb1401adaececadbd47140ec132c4bfc8/IMG_5114.jpg" /> <img width="5616" height="3744" width_o="5616" height_o="3744" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5dd467589d96e27554bdd49808f10e1a36b8dd83460d80931993d5a9d0312931/IMG_5089.jpg" data-mid="225906627" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5dd467589d96e27554bdd49808f10e1a36b8dd83460d80931993d5a9d0312931/IMG_5089.jpg" /> SYDNEY & KIM https://hazelscomputer.com/SYDNEY-KIM Tue, 09 Aug 2022 21:43:48 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/SYDNEY-KIM SYDNEY & KIM is a short film about the demise of a close friendship, exploring how sickness and debility transform what we hold most dear. After 25-year old Sydney is released from the hospital following a major facial surgery, her best friend Kim cares for her at a motel during her recovery. As Kim’s flirtation with the motel manager escalates, Sydney’s resentment begins to boil over. Through intimate moments in their motel room, Sydney and Kim navigate the implicit expectations of their friendship. Shot on Super 16mm film.[2023]Exhibitions:NewFest LGBTQ Film Festival STARRING:Sasha Forests Masha Breeze Connor Foster CREW:director / writer / producer - Hazel Katz executive producer - Nicoletta Vangelisti assistant director - alexis hithe director of photography - Arlene Mejorado production designer - Wren Gardiner gaffer - Ryan Bradford sound engineer - Josephine Shetty assistant camera - beck haberstrohgrip - mika castañeda makeup - Jun!yi Min craft services - Jocelyn Morales catering - the Gro House & Mila Myles special assistant - Ricky Zoker POST: editor - Hazel Katzcolorist - Jessica Dunn Rovinellimix - Josephine Shettycomposer - Lynn Avery graphic design - Cisne                         SULKA'S DAUGHTERS https://hazelscomputer.com/SULKA-S-DAUGHTERS Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:10:33 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/SULKA-S-DAUGHTERS SULKA’S DAUGHTERS <img width="2762" height="2046" width_o="2762" height_o="2046" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/82bdc6fe8927c569aae771b6c3dd772a945e6714110ad7c53c7bdea1b75f6de6/Screen-Shot-2021-12-12-at-12.12.08-AM.png" data-mid="127765944" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/82bdc6fe8927c569aae771b6c3dd772a945e6714110ad7c53c7bdea1b75f6de6/Screen-Shot-2021-12-12-at-12.12.08-AM.png" /> <img width="2524" height="1874" width_o="2524" height_o="1874" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/653a6ad991a13ea9534703a4ed76868e89d80261de0ed4f4a9b5e1bb022618a4/dreamlovers4.png" data-mid="127766035" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/653a6ad991a13ea9534703a4ed76868e89d80261de0ed4f4a9b5e1bb022618a4/dreamlovers4.png" /> Over the last several years, I’ve installed several iterations of SULKA’S DAUGHTERS, a multichannel video eulogy to transfeminine ancestors who found moments of euphoric performativity in contexts of exploitation. The project consists of re-edited moving image loops from early transexual porn movies starring Sulka, one of the first transsexual porn stars. An interview with one of Sulka’s old friends accompanies the video to give context to 1980s transfemme experience in Los Angeles. Version 3 features a loosely re-staged set from a scene in Sulka’s Daughter [1984]. The viewer enters a scene in which Sulka watches several of her own performances that are being simultaneously screened on a row of television sets. [2023] Exhibitions: ICA San Diego     <img width="1240" height="930" width_o="1240" height_o="930" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1049089d658ff4698e57bee87509e606fc3bc01321e53e9396ffd5276b2a22d/Sulka-s-Daughters-v.-3-2023_still01.jpg" data-mid="225885406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1049089d658ff4698e57bee87509e606fc3bc01321e53e9396ffd5276b2a22d/Sulka-s-Daughters-v.-3-2023_still01.jpg" /> <img width="1240" height="930" width_o="1240" height_o="930" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97536cd3ef36a71925e5e1b1d04ce04eab972d8971a9bdbda2249972e66c28bc/Sulka-s-Daughters-v.-3-2023_still02.jpg" data-mid="225885404" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97536cd3ef36a71925e5e1b1d04ce04eab972d8971a9bdbda2249972e66c28bc/Sulka-s-Daughters-v.-3-2023_still02.jpg" /> <img width="1240" height="930" width_o="1240" height_o="930" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/49f51b616ce9f11b83fbf6262f381e9055ff691f422cb70bbaf12fa1cc7b53ad/Sulka-s-Daughters-v.-3-2023_still03.jpg" data-mid="225885405" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/49f51b616ce9f11b83fbf6262f381e9055ff691f422cb70bbaf12fa1cc7b53ad/Sulka-s-Daughters-v.-3-2023_still03.jpg" /> Version 2 aka BABY SIS is a one channel adaptation of the project.[2023]Exhibitions:Vielmetter LA <img width="2488" height="1871" width_o="2488" height_o="1871" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b70ac62e94b49de22de9702a235706ec0ad5151de677e55c1a64ed6982340762/SulkasDaughters_2023_01_24.png" data-mid="225886138" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b70ac62e94b49de22de9702a235706ec0ad5151de677e55c1a64ed6982340762/SulkasDaughters_2023_01_24.png" />          In Version 1, polyester fabrics hang throughout the exhibition space, describing sculptural aspects of the moving image projections. As they touch the images of artist and pornstar, the public must consider their own relationship to gendered and sexualized performance. Meanwhile, the spectators encounter the artist’s desire for an embodiment through her desire to merge with Sulka. There is an impossibility in the allure of seeking a trans mother.[2022]Exibitions: Qualcomm Institute <img width="5760" height="3840" width_o="5760" height_o="3840" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96725de73992185f8cdf35b430c0f48e4a1b5921a44a07d6454b448cb6025a6d/Hazel-Installation-UCSD-12.jpg" data-mid="225885921" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96725de73992185f8cdf35b430c0f48e4a1b5921a44a07d6454b448cb6025a6d/Hazel-Installation-UCSD-12.jpg" />   <img width="5341" height="3561" width_o="5341" height_o="3561" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fee1006efc818276722c27381dc31715d4e5be213e8ec30f07c82ccc4d2b6071/Hazel-Installation-UCSD-15.jpg" data-mid="225885936" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fee1006efc818276722c27381dc31715d4e5be213e8ec30f07c82ccc4d2b6071/Hazel-Installation-UCSD-15.jpg" /> <img width="5154" height="3436" width_o="5154" height_o="3436" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/83c8b68678e34b1db4d165fba5acc91dbc3d9c7b8499cb554d6b46b00b8a3526/Hazel-Installation-UCSD-5.jpg" data-mid="225885908" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/83c8b68678e34b1db4d165fba5acc91dbc3d9c7b8499cb554d6b46b00b8a3526/Hazel-Installation-UCSD-5.jpg" /> WHO GETS TO DIE https://hazelscomputer.com/WHO-GETS-TO-DIE-1 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 05:49:27 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/WHO-GETS-TO-DIE-1 WHO GETS TO DIE [2021] An essay film about death and dying in pop culture, prison and the films of Hilary Swank. [21:52] Exhibitions: Tin FlatsVox Populi EMETOPHOBIA https://hazelscomputer.com/EMETOPHOBIA-1 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 06:01:18 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/EMETOPHOBIA-1 EMETOPHOBIA [2020] A research project and video project that collects, scrutinizes, and remixes film narratives that contain caricatures of trans femmes.  [70:22] FLORIDA WATER https://hazelscomputer.com/FLORIDA-WATER-1 Sun, 12 Dec 2021 08:31:42 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/FLORIDA-WATER-1 FLORIDA WATER [2018] David and Boomer are residents of Nalcrest, a retirement community about 70 miles east of Tampa, Florida. What should be a period of ultimate ease, however, soon reveals itself to be far more complex as David and Boomer both deal with healthcare crises that force sea-change upon the sunset of their lives. [96:45]Made with Adrian Randall Premiered at Sarasota International Film Festival Purchase from Collective Eye Films or Docuseek <img width="1548" height="2193" width_o="1548" height_o="2193" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/67c4e525a4b38cb0890413d6944cf3bd19e584e1adbabe566d139f969dd7185d/Florida-Water_Purple.png" data-mid="127174469" border="0" data-scale="78" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/67c4e525a4b38cb0890413d6944cf3bd19e584e1adbabe566d139f969dd7185d/Florida-Water_Purple.png" /> BUBBY & THEM https://hazelscomputer.com/BUBBY-THEM Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:36:40 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/BUBBY-THEM BUBBY & THEM [2017] When Je’Jae is kicked out of their home, attacked on the street, and ostracized by religious leaders, adoptive grandmother Bubby Razi provides a space of refuge and resilience. [19:25] STARRING:Je’Jae DanielsRoslyn Engelmayer CREW:Je’Jae Daniels Hazel Katz Rezarta SeferiDaniel Goodman Maya Yu ZhangSamuel Budin SCREENINGS: Kunsthal Charlottenborg SAJ Festival Les Mains GauchesQueens World Film Festival Fringe Queer Film & Arts Fest DTLA Film Festival WNDX Film Festival Univ of Chicago Film Studies Center ACTING ERRATICALLY https://hazelscomputer.com/ACTING-ERRATICALLY-1 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 06:08:26 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/ACTING-ERRATICALLY-1 ACTING ERRATICALLY [2017] Explores the connections between freedom of movement and state sanctioned violence in the lives of NYC-based women and gender-nonconforming people of color by critically engaging with the archive and using found footage as metaphorical architecture. [15:08] made with Picture the Homeless, BYP100, Tuff Guts, & Daniel Goodman. Home https://hazelscomputer.com/Home Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:27:09 +0000 Hazel Katz https://hazelscomputer.com/Home