Docufessional Films

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Films & Performances

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ON GRIFFIN ALLEY (live outdoor performance)

ON GRIFFIN ALLEY, is the story of LENA BAKER who was executed in the electric chair by the State of Georgia in 1944. Her true story is presented by Joey Huertas as an 'Expanded Cinema' live performance work and interdisciplinary experiment, fusing stage theatre and expanded cinema techniques. "The goal is not to have a clean, finished product, but rather, it is an exploration of the process of the work, which subsequently becomes the work." Through the use of found artifacts, archival film footage, and sound design a new language of performance is explored before a live audience.

'ON GRIFFIN ALLEY'
Directed by: Joey Huertas AKA Jane Public.
Starring: CONNIE WINSTON
Written by THE WATCH (collaboration between the two artists)
Live soundscape music performance: Joey Huertas aka Jane Public.

On Griffin Alley is a an anti Capital Punishment work and a re-imagining of the trial of Lena Baker, a 44-year old Black American female who was convicted of killing Ernest B. Knight, her 56-year old white male employer with whom she also was engaged in an illicit love affair in Jim Crow Cuthbert, Georgia. *** Baker is the first and only woman to ever be electrocuted in the State of Georgia.

The year was 1944. Baker’s trial lasted for less than one full day, and her jury was comprised of twelve white males. The trial transcript is approximately ten pages long. This live cinema performance was created by interpreting the transcript during self-imposed DIY residency and by using found artifacts in order to design the stage set and an "Old Sparky" electric chair.

Joey Huertas interviews experimental film icon NICK ZEDD (Cinema of Transgression)

'Skype' interview with experimental film artists Nick Zedd and Joey Huertas, 3/9/2017. Interview commissioned by Kent Theatre in New York. Zedd is living in Mexico making films with his wife and son at the time of this interview.

Nick Zedd is an American filmmaker and author from New York City. He coined the term Cinema of Transgression in 1985 to describe a loose-knit group of like-minded filmmakers and artists using shock value and black humor in their work. These filmmakers and artistic collaborators included Richard Kern, Tessa Hughes Freeland, Lung Leg, Annie Sprinkle and Lydia Lunch. Under numerous pen names, Zedd edited and wrote the Underground Film Bulletin (1984–90) which publicized the work of these filmmakers. The Cinema of Transgression was explored in Jack Sargeant's book Deathtripping (Creation Books). Mr Zedd's autobiography Totem of the Depraved was published by Henry Rollins' 2.13.61 publications in 1996. From 2004 to 2008 Nick Zedd produced and directed The Adventures of Electa Elf, a low-budget TV series out of NYC. Since moving to Mexico in 2011 Nick Zedd has edited three issues of Hatred of Capitalism magazine in which his Extremist Manifesto was published, sending shock waves through the art world. Recent films shot in Mexico City include Dr Shinto: Frustration, Cockfight, Paradise Lost, Demonic Sweaters: Love Always Love and a series of music videos for reggaeton singer Natalia Ibenez Lorio aka #laBAE.