Jane Public | Joey Huertas

Catalog

FILMOGRAPHY

I Loving Me (1994), BUBBLEGUM AND RAZORBLADES (1994), GIRLJACKER (1994), Sic (1995), Robbie (1995), Bleed (1995), D-Blok Snag (1995), EPISODE (1996), Feelings (1997), I Need You (1998), Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Mr. Clark (2001), How to Wanna Kill People (2003), I really think it’s a BLACK WHITE incident (2003), 33020 (2003), CAW (2004), THE HEALING POWER OF VIOLENCE (2004), LEN (2004), SONO (2005), EX (2006), MISSING GREEN (2007), NICE PEOPLE (2008), ...in the Upper Room (2008), HOMEWRECKA (2008), GIRLSTORIES, An Afterschool Special (2015), 33020, The Colors Of Spring (Expanded Cinema), Where's The Child (Expanded Cinema), ON GRIFFIN ALLEY (Expanded Cinema), THE BROMLEY THING ( UK Commissioned, 2021)

• “…In Sickness and in Health” (post-production)
• COWELL (death penalty survivors research project),

Contras (submersive novel documentary, 2024)

Films

HOMEWRECKA

Winner of Best Experimental Film 2010, Syracuse International Film Festival. This is third short film installation for the GIRLSTORIES TRILOGY. A young man in ICU hospital unit recalls a destructive toxic relationship with a girl with whom he continues to be in love.

NICE PEOPLE

Film explores a young ballet dancers struggle with her controlling parents and her distorted sense of self due to Body Dysmorphia.

MISSING GREEN (Best Experimental Film 2008)

Winner of Best Experimental Film, 2008. A film about the disappearance of a college student who has been missing for 11 years. The film uses a hypnotist, letters, diary entries, gossip and telephone conversations as a study of untreated clinical depression. Shot on PIXELVISION.
"MISSING GREEN", film shot on PIXELVISION TOY TECHNOLOGY.excerpts from a critic's film review:
Joey Huertas (aka Jane Public) has created a trilogy about three fictional young women who are experiencing an array of what "society" has deemed as psychological disorders that are damaging to themselves and others around them.

Film review by Adam Zeller -
'Missing Green'continues Huertas' exploration of camera quasi-documentaries. In this one, a hypnotist works with a friend of Erin, a student who has been missing for 11 years. As a session continues, the image mutates to TV "snow," while the audio becomes mixed with conflicting sounds. There is an eerie, almost pornographic (ideologically speaking) feel to the film. We sense that we are intruding and then censored for what appears to be a contrived situation that we are supposed to believe is real. We are kept on the edge between artifice and reality, and an uncomfortable edge it is.

CRITIC REVIEW EXCERPT:
This is the first film in the trilogy ,"GIRLSTORIES". MISSING GREEN is an upsetting "ghost story" that explores a missing college student. As we experience this film, we learn that this student has disappeared on account of her own clinical depression; visually erected through the use of multiple formats including the use of PIXELVISION, a vintage kids toy camera from 1987. The use of different recording devices is an intelligent way in which to convey the story of a literal and metaphoric disappearance of a young girl who has deteriorated from society and from herself, therefore the pixels that make up the images begin to also deteriorate into a facsimile of a fictional facial factorial FLASHBACK RECOGNITION. The ghost-like atmosphere contains an underlying humor that is so subtle one must pull it out from a cold unforeseen depth of the comedy that goes along with the experience of being human; this is what makes MISSING GREEN a good way to begin this trilogy called GIRLSTORIES. As owe are enter this world of dark psychological humor through a portal of another dimension, our spirits go to become reborn into an unnatural state which the filmmaker is guiding us through.

Charles Dickens said it best, "an idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself."
Currently screening at THE PASSAGE GALLERY, NY .
http://www.purchase.edu/PassageGallery/

I really think it’s a BLACK WHITE incident

The film is based on true tragic events of elder abuse and racism and models itself as a modern day Greek tragedy. 11min

...in the Upper Room

The film, “In the Upper Room” is a film work designed to provoke. It uses propaganda techniques established by Edward Filene’s Institute of Propaganda Analysis (1937), and the evil Nazi regime, to deliver a faux true-crime narrative based on the terrifying reality of hate-group racial organization.

Inspired by the power of television media advertising, categories of propaganda studies (Name Calling, Band wagon, Transfer, Plain Folks, Card Stacking and Glittering Generalities) are freely exercised and try
to convince us, via religious propaganda, of a racially motivated idea.

The techniques used in the short film are accompanied by a fictionalized hate crime that adds blame on an enemy race group. The viewer is asked to consider the value of a proposal, using derogatory language and words that are meant to invoke our youth and incite the general public to take action, via broadcasting on Public Access Television.

The film was shot at a southern Baptist church in rural Virginia on Super 8mm film.

GIRLSTORIES

GIRLSTORIES is a trilogy of short films that explores the intersecting line between television and experimental storytelling. PIXELVISION, OPTICAL PRINTING, SUPER 8mm, SURVEILLANCE, INFRA-RED 35mm PHOTOGRAPHY are some of the devices used to collide against three very moving and intimate adolescent faux narratives.

LEN

Winner of Willard Van Dyke Award for non-fiction film. LEN is an interview shot on 16mm and a Nagra recorder that interviews an ex-convict, vindicated in a trial, revealing during the interview a complicated web of lies and family tragedy.

EPISODE

Awarded Best Film by EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for its unique use of celluloid manipulation & optical printing.

Using actual police reports and transcripts, a true-story crime is observed through the eyes of a motel surveillance camera in a bathroom setting.

Alzheimer’s Dementia, Mr. CLARK

An ailing psychiatrist suffering from Alzheimers becomes the co-host for an off-screen step-by-step educational video session as a cage of squealing parakeets compete for the viewers focal concentration abilities. 5 min.

COWELL

is an ongoing feature-length research film project meant to explore childhood development and the death penalty. Does nature load the gun, and nurture pull the trigger?

16x9 digital video, microfilm, Mini DV. Tentative release date: 2012

IN SICKNESS & IN HEALTH

A feature film shot on Hi 8 and Super 8mm (in Post-Production). Excerpts of this film was screened on National Television show, THE PEOPLE's COURT in 2006.

33020

42nd Ann Arbor Film Festival selection- Poster Art for '33020'

fantasizing in the backseat of a minvan about having kids in a Montecarlo

Live Sound Art (Expanded Cinema)

The Life and Times of My Dog Cocker

A 'Spoken Word' about the life and death of a man's best friend, Cocker.

Joey Huertas on THE PEOPLES COURT (FOX 5 TV)

Experimental film director. Joey Huertas sues (and wins!) special FX maker for ruining his moviestar dog, BUTCH from the film '...In Sickness and in Health'

COWELL (raw footage)

Unedited raw 16mm and Super8mm footage for upcoming film, COWELL

THE COLORS OF SPRING (live performance projections)

This footage is raw hand-processed/hand-developed 16mm & Super8mm film footage shot for live Performance/Expanded Cinema, "The Colors of Spring".

Footage was shot on location in the New Hampshire state mountains. This Colors Of Spring integrates live performance + journals + poetry readings accompanied by a viola soundscape performance. Sound-design will color a faux love story narrative.

FANGIRL SARAH reviews 'EX'.

YouTube film critic Fangirl Sarah reviews the film, 'EX'

FANGIRL SARAH YOUTUBE SITE: https://www.youtube.com/user/Gacktfangirl2323

DANGIRL SARAH on the DR. PHIL show ... https://youtu.be/8uOnqrDuRM0

D-Blok Snag. 5 min. 1995.

D-Blok Snag. 5 min. 1995.
A land art film that examines the poverty of a residential block in the South Bronx. Torched stolen cars, abandoned mutt dogs and dirty laundry are a few of the visual anchors that weave this location study together. This film was shot on Tri-X film and in-camera edited using a 16mm Bolex camera. Inspired by the works of artist Nancy Holt.

Joey's film 'D-Blok Snag' exhibited at MoMA Museum of Modern Art
Thu, Feb 17, 2022. 7:00 p.m.
This film accompanies New York City Symphonies of the Millennium Film Workshop.

MoMA, Floor T2/T1, Theater 2
The Roy and Niuta Titus Theater 2
Organized by Ron Magliozzi, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/7534

For decades, Millennium Film Workshop has served as a hub for independent experimental film production and exhibition, a place to bring forth personal cinema, open to anyone seeking a different vision beyond the mainstream. The original Workshop, located in New York City’s East Village from 1966 to 2011, was a community space providing low-cost equipment rentals, access to a screening room and editing facility, and the independence traditionally associated with painters or poets. Such filmmakers and artists as Andy Warhol, James Benning, Bruce Conner, Todd Haynes, Yvonne Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, and Michael Snow screened their work at Millennium, some premiering their first films. Today, Millennium holds instructional workshops for students and adults around the city, and maintains a community of critical engagement through its long-running publication, Millennium Film Journal. Through digital platforms, and in collaboration with other like-minded organizations, Millennium continues to foster experimentation and artistic development in film and video, steadfast in its mission to highlight new and unknown visions from beyond the commercial world of film.

The many changes and adaptations Millennium has weathered over its long years of existence reflect the protean nature of the city it calls its home; though names and places may change, a certain character of filmmaking is always recognizably Millennium, just as our ever-changing city is always recognizably New York. Over the past few decades the filmmakers of Millennium Film Workshop have produced a wide range of films devoted to New York. These films can be understood as a continuation of the venerable “city symphony” genre and a modernization of the genre through new technology, interpretation, and techniques.

This series aims to invoke the spirit of the early City Symphonies and apply it to the New York of the late 20th century and the early part of this century. Each filmmaker in this program has been affiliated with Millennium over the years, some educated through its workshop programs, others active members of their ongoing screening community. Each film offers its own particular and idiosyncratic view of the city, but it is hoped that the screenings will offer something more than just a compilation. Rather, as with any great symphony, the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts. Perhaps, when these short films are viewed together, the viewer will gain a deeper understanding of the city, its inner workings, its organic growth, and the profound changes that it has undergone in its recent history.

MoMA Film series 2022

MoMA, Floor T2/T1

The Debra and Leon Black Family Film Center

https://www.moma.org/

Bleed (16mm film)

Short film that documents a typical morning in the borough of The Bronx, NY while listening to cathartic AM talk radio covering stress-related hemorroids.

SONO (16mm film)

A hand-processed and solarized experimental 'character study'.

I’m Not Jesus.

A conceptual sound art project that combines poetry readings with music and inspired by the aesthetics of outsider art. The work is created to be performed in absolute darkness, and no visuals, as black screen cinema.