CHERI GAULKE – Filmography

Note: This list focuses on my film/video work. The listed works were written, directed, edited and produced by me. My extensive list of performance art, exhibitions and public art can be found in my CV under RESUME.

INSIDE THE BEAUTY BUBBLE, 2021, 31:00, documentary, co-directed with Cheryl Bookout

2022:

Docs Without Borders Film Festival, virtual, Winner-Award of Merit

The Impact Docs Awards, virtual, Winner-Award of Merit

American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Palm Springs, April 7 & 10, Winner-Sadie Katz Hustle Award

San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, April 30 & May 1, Winner-Audience Award

California Capital Documentary Film Festival, Sacramento, June 11

Dances With Films, Los Angeles, June 14, Winner-Audience Award

The Fine Arts Film Festival, Venice, CA, June 10-19

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, June 18, Awards Finalist

Frameline46: The San Francisco International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, June 21

Nevada Women’s Film Festival, June 25

MOM Film Fest, Aug. 19-21, Winner-Most Viewed Film

Nevada City Film Festival, August 27&28, Winner-Heart of Gold Award

Long Beach QFilm Festival, Long Beach, CA, Sept. 9, Winner-Best Documentary Short

DC Shorts International Film Festival, Sept. 10

Ag & Art Film Festival, Vacaville, CA, Sept. 17

California International Shorts Festival, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 18, Best Documentary Short

Cinema Diverse Palm Springs LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA, Sept. 24, Festival Favorite & Directors Choice

Grand Rapids Film Festival, Sept. 25, Grand Rapids, MI, Finalist

Albany FilmFest, Albany, CA, Oct. 6

Santa Cruz Film Festival, Santa Cruz, CA, Oct. 9

Pride Film Fest, virtual, Oct. 12-30

Dayton LGBT Film Fest, Dayton, OH, Oct. 14, Opening Night Selection

LA Femme International Film Festival, virtual, Beverly Hills, CA, Oct. 13-16

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM, Oct. 21

Rainbow Visions, Edmonton, Alberta Canada, Nov. 6

Studio City Film Festival, Studio City, CA, Nov. 7, Best Documentary Short

Arrow International Film Festival, Paris, Best Short Documentary

Yucca Valley Film Festival, Yucca Valley, CA, Nov. 12, Grand Jury Award

Indianapolis LGBT Film Festival, Nov. 14-20, Virtual

Sherman Oaks Film Festival, Nov. 16, Sherman Oaks, CA, Grand Jury Award

YoFiFest, The Yonkers Film Festival, Dec. 2, Yonkers, NY, Dec. 2, Audience Choice

The MY Hero International Film Festival, Dec. 10, Virtual, Art Heroes Winner

Art is Alive, Dec. 14, NY, NY, Winner Best Documentary

2023:

Borrego Springs Film Festival, Jan. 23, Winner Audience Choice Award

Thomas Edison Film Festival, Feb. 17-18, Princeton University, NJ, Jury’s Stellar Award

Winter Film Awards Film Festival, Feb. 18, NY, NY, Best Documentary

Santa Fe Film Festival, Santa Fe, NM, Feb. 22

Atlanta Docufest, Atlanta, GA, March 3

SPE Media Film Festival, Denver, CO, March 17-18

Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Sebastopol, CA, March 18-19

Cleveland International Film Festival, Cleveland, OH, March 22

Underexposed Film Festival, Rock Hill, SC, March 22-25

Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA, June 13

Indy Film Fest, Indianapolis, IN, April 19, Audience Award

AV Fest, Healdsburg, CA, May 30

MISS ALMA THOMAS: A LIFE IN COLOR, 2021, 20:00, documentary

Commissioned to accompany a traveling museum retrospective Alma W. Thomas: Everything is Beautiful at The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA.; The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.; The Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN.; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, 2021-2022.

Film festival screenings to date include:

SF DOCFEST, San Francisco, CA, May 31, 2021

Indy Shorts/Heartland International Film Festival, Indianapolis, IN, July 20, 2021

Cordillera International Film Festival, Reno, NV, July 29, 2021

Woods Hole Film Festival, Woods Hole, MA, July 31, 2021, 2nd Place Best Doc Short

Overlea Artsfest, Washington, DC, Aug. 7, 2021

Awesome Con FF DC, Aug. 20, 2021, Best in Show

DC Shorts International Film Festival, Washington, DC, Sept. 9, 2021, Oustanding Local Film

Port Townsend Film Festival, Port Townsend, WA, Sept. 23, 2021

Winter Film Awards, New York, NY, Sept. 23, 2021

Women Over 50 Film Festival, London, England, Sept. 25, 2021

Dallas VideoFest, Dallas, TX, Oct. 2, 2021

Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, Chagrin Falls, OH, Oct. 5, 2021

Portland Film Festival, Portland, OR, Oct. 6, 2021

BendFilm Festival, Bend, OR, Oct. 7, 2021

Art is Alive Film Festival, New York, NY, Oct. 16-17, 2021

Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita, KS, Oct. 20, 2021, Outstanding Documentary Short

Naples International Film Festival, Naples, FL, Oct. 21, 2021, Opening Night Film

Thomas Edison Film Festival, 2021, Director’s Choice Award

My HERO International Film Festival, Santa Monica, CA, 2021, Second Place

International Fine Arts Film Festival, 2021, Best Short Documentary

DC Black Film Festival, Best DC Film

Pittsburgh Short Film Festival, Pittsburgh, PA,

Third Action Film Festival

Cleveland Film Festival, Cleveland, OH

Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA

Borrego Springs Film Festival, Borrego Springs, CA

Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY

Sunderland Shorts Film Festival,

Cinema Sisters

Auntyland

Cascadia International Women’s Film Festival

AmDocs Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA

Art Doc Film Festival

Heritage Film Festival,

Cinema Columbus Film Festival

Hell’s Half Mile Film Festival

Ag & Art, CA

Community Stories Film Festival

DC International

Filmteenth International Film Festival

South Georgia Film Festival

I AM COVID-19, 2020, 3:00, animation

Solstice: Create Art for Earth, curated by Judy Chicago, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, June 2020

TRUDIE’S GOOSE, 2020, 4:44, animation

Independent Days International Film Festival, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, September 22, 2021

Southside Film Festival, Bethlehem, PA, June 15, 2021

American Pavilion Emerging Filmmakers Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival, postponed to May 2021

Miami Jewish Film Festival, Miami, FL, April 15, 2021

Borrego Springs Film Festival, Borrego Springs, CA, January 14, 2021

Cucalorus Film Festival, Wilmington, NC, November 11-25, 2020

Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Huntingdon, PA, October 19, 2020

Women Over 50 Film Festival, London, England, September 26, 2020

AmDocs-American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Palm Springs, CA, September 25-29, 2020

Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago, IL, September 9, 2020

NOT Film Fest, Santarcangelo, Italy, August 27, 2020

GLORIA’S CALL, 2018, 16:47, documentary

2018:

Women Over 50 Film Festival, September 23, 2018, Brighton, England

Vox Feminae, October 5, 2018, Zagreb, Croatia

Grand Rapids Feminist Film Fest (GRFFF), October 13, 2018, Grand Rapids, MI

DTLA Film Festival, October 21, 2018, Los Angeles, CA

MY HERO International Film Festival, no screening, Los Angeles, CA, Women Transforming Media Award

2019:

Slamdance, Jan. 25 and 31, 2019, Park City, UT

Big Muddy Film Festival, February 22, 2019, Carbondale, IL

Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, Feb 28 – Mar 3, 2019, Portland, OR

Thessaloniki Documentary Film Festival, March 1, 2019, Thessaloniki, Greece

Black Maria Film Festival, March 6, 2019, Hoboken Hist. Museum, Hoboken, NJ, Jurors’ Citation

2019 SPE Media Festival (Society for Photographic Education), March 7-9, 2019, Cleveland, OH

TRICKY WOMEN/TRICKY REALITIES International Animation Film Festival , March 13-17, 2019, Vienna, Austria

REGARD-Saguenay International Short Film Festival, March 13-17, 2019, Quebec, Canada

Nevada Women’s Film Festival, March 23, 2019, Las Vegas, NV

Albany Film Festival, March 24, 2019, Albany, CA

POW Portland Oregon Women’s Film Festival, March 27-31, 2019, Portland, OR

Ann Arbor Film Festival, March 29, 2019, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Best Documentary

American Documentary Film Festival, April 1, 2019, Palm Springs, CA

Through Women’s Eyes/Sarasota Film Festival, April 6-7, 2019, Sarasota, FL

Newport Beach Film Festival, April 25 – May 2, 2019, Newport Beach, CA, Best Art, Architecture and Design Film

Hot Docs, April 25 – May 5, 2019, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Fine Arts Film Festival, May 26, 2019, Venice, CA

26th Chicago Underground Film Festival, June 5-9,2019, Chicago, IL

Dumbo Film Festival, June 7, 2019, Brooklyn, NY

Slamdance Presents, June 11, 2019, ArcLight Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA

NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, June 29, 2019, Los Angeles, CA

Vidlings & Tapeheads Film Festival for unconventional storytelling, June 29, 2019, Hamtramck, MI

NOT FILM FEST, July 30, 2019, Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy

Brooklyn Women’s Film Festival, August 22, 2019, Brooklyn, NY

Defy Film Festival, August 23, 2019, Nashville, TN

Nevada City Film Festival, August 23-30, 2019, Nevada City, CA, Audience Award

Buskopolis Festival of Cinematic Oddities, Sept 20, 2019, Huntington, PA

Nashville Film Festival, October 3, 2019, Nashville, TN

Highland Park Independent Film Festival, October 3, 2019, Highland Park, CA, Best Documentary

Santa Cruz FF, October 9, 2019, Santa Cruz, CA

Seattle Queer FF, October 20, 2019, Seattle, Washington

Edinburgh Short Film Festival, October 24, 2019, Edinburgh, Scotland

Cineffable-Paris Int. Lesbian and Feminist Film Festival, Oct 31-Nov 3, 2019, Paris, France

Cucaloris Film Festival, November 13, 2019, Wilmington, NC

2020:

San Luis Obispo Film Festival, March 17, 2020, San Luis Obispo, CA

Underexposed Film Festival yc, March 25, 2020, Rock Hill, SC

Port Townsend Film Festival, September 24, 2020, Port Townsend, WA

15th IMMAGINARIA International Film Festival, October 2-4, 2020, Rome, Italy

I AM BE, 2016, 12:00, narrative

2017: California Women’s Film Festival, Los Angeles, Jan. 7, Best Supporting Actress Nomination; Society for Photographic Education Annual Conference, Orlando, Florida, March 2-12; World-Fest Houston International Film Festival, April, Remi Award Winner-Gold Medal-Short Narrative (Little or No Dialogue); Women’s Independent Film Festival, Tarzana, California, April 30, First Place-Feminism on Film; Film Miami Fest, Miami, Florida, July 22-23; Milledgeville Film Festival, Milledgeville, Georgia, April 28; It’s a Wonderful World, exhibition juried by Betty Ann Brown, Groundspace Project, Los Angeles, California, July 8-22; Mindfield Film Festival, Los Angeles, California, August, Best Experimental-Diamond Award; LA Shorts Awards, Los Angeles, California, August, Best Experimental; Femmes Video Art Festival, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, California, Aug. 27

2018: It’s Time, An Uncensored Look at the Time’s Up & #MeToo Movements, curated by Anuradha Vikram, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California, July 7 – August 11

IN INDIA: A REFLECTION IN THREE PARTS, 2015, 13:36, travel music video

Travel FilmFest International Film Festival, Limassol, Larnaca, Oct. 19, 2017

CYCLE OF THE WITCH (or, sorry I missed church, I was busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian), 2013, 12:00, experimental personal narrative video

2013: Tapping the Third Realm, curated by Meg Linton, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design

2015: Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival Film Program, Aug. 3

2017: Femmes Video Art Festival, The Situation Room, Los Angeles, California, Aug. 27

2018: University of Oregon Queer Film Festival, Eugene, Oregon, Feb. 9; aGLIFF: Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival, Austin, Texas, Sept. 11; Reeling 2014: 32nd Chicago LGBT International Film Festival, Chicago, Illinois, Sept. 19; Other Venice Film Festival, Venice, California, Oct. 11; OUTrageous!, Santa Barbara Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Santa Barbara, CA, Nov. 8

PEEP TOTTER FLY, 2011, mixed-media interactive video installation

Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition, Sept. 27, 2011-Jan. 29, 2012

WonderWomen, Katherine Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, 2015

Long Beach City College Gallery, 2016

Storefront Media, Seattle, WA (4 monitor looping window installation), 2019-present

OUR WEDDING, 2010, 7:30, single-channel video

OUTrageous!, Santa Barbara Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Santa Barbara, CA

2010: Long Beach Q Festival, Oct. 9; Tampa International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Oct. 16; OUTrageous, Santa Barbara LGBTQ Film Festival, Nov. 4; Mill Valley Film Festival, Oct. 16; Outfest Family Day, Los Angeles; Reeling 2010: Chicago Lesbian and Gay International Film Festival, Nov. 7; Do It Your Damn Self!! Youth Film Festival, Cambridge, MA, Nov. 9-13;

International Student Media Festival, Oct. 15

2011: Carolina Film and Video Festival. Greensboro, North Carolina, Feb. 23

FEMINIST ART WORKERS: HEAVEN OR HELL?, 2008, 7:37, documentary

2008: Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art + Community, curated by Carey Lovelace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York

2011: Doin’ It in Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman’s Building, curated by Meg Linton and Sue Maberry, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, a Getty-sponsored Pacific Standard Time exhibition, installations by Feminist Art Workers and Sisters Of Survival, Oct. 1, 2011-Feb. 26, 2012

SISTERS OF SURVIVAL, 2008, 8:00, documentary

Making It Together: Women’s Collaborative Art + Community, curated by Carey Lovelace, Bronx Museum of Art, Bronx, New York

YOU CAN HEAR IT SINGING: A JOURNEY DOWN THE CAPE FEAR RIVER, 1999, 12-channel video installation, permanent installation

Exploris Museum, Raleigh, North Carolina

’TWEENS, 1997, 9:15, single-channel video

1997: Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California

1998: National Educational Media Network Festival, Oakland, California; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, winner Golden Apple

OUT LOUD, 1995, 18:30, single-channel video

1995: Mix ‘95, 9th New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film/Video Festival (excerpt), Sao Paolo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Brazil (excerpt), Johannesburg Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, South Africa (excerpt)

1996: University of Oregon Queer Film Festival. Eugene, Oregon; San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, San Francisco, California; Society for Photographic Education National Conference, Los Angeles, California; Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Art, UC Irvine, California; Women in Action: Artistic Evidence, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; Without Alarm: Public and Private Security, Lincoln Heights Jail, curated by the Arroyo Arts Collective, Los Angeles, California (excerpt); Out Fest ‘96: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival; Adam Baran Honolulu Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Honolulu, Hawaii; ARS DIGITALis Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin (HDK) (excerpt); electra 96…videofestival, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter (excerpt); ROOTS Festival, Hull, U.K. (excerpt)

1998: Inaugural Exhibition, The Village at Ed Gould Plaza, Los Angeles, California; numerous screenings booked nationally by Frameline Distributions

SEA OF TIME, 1993, 12:00, single-channel video

Award: Sony Visions of US runner up

1994: AFI National Video Festival, Los Angeles, California; San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, San Francisco, California; Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, Illinois; Charlotte Film and Video Festival, Charlotte, North Carolina; Personal Portraits: Mothers and Daughters, ATA, San Francisco, California; Light Pools ‘94, MCAD Gallery at Calhoun Square, Minneapolis, Minnesota; 12th International Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, Los Angeles, California; Queer Articulations: 4th Princeton Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Film Festival, Princeton, New Jersey; Re:Solution Video Arts Annual, curated by Carole Ann Klonarides, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies; European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany; Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, California; LACE Annuale, curated by Bill Horrigan, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Summer Nights in Silverlake Video Festival, Los Angeles; Reel Affirmations 4: DC’s 4th Annual Celebration of Gay and Lesbian Films, Washington, DC; 14th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film Festival, Chicago, IL; The 5th Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, Hong Kong; Day Without Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; In Memory Of…,Power in America series, Santa Monica, California

1995: 9th London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, London, England; NO-TV & Movies #14: Alternative Views on Film and Video, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; Dallas Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Dallas, Texas; Fifth Annual Inside/OUT Lesbian and Gay Film and Video Festival of Toronto, Canada; “Personal Best: The Work of Mark Niblock-Smith,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California

1999: Vancouver Queer Film and Video Festival, Vancouver, Canada

L.A. RIVER PROJECT, 1992, 12:00, single-channel video (not the installation)

1992: Fragile Ecologies: Artists’ Interpretations and Solutions, curated by Barbara Matilsky, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY

2008: Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, California

PILLAR OF SMOKE, 1992, 9:00, single-channel video

A Matter of Life and Breath, curated by Kim Abeles, California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside, 1992

L.A.X., LACE, Los Angeles, California, 1992

FROGSKIN, 1991, 6:30, single-channel video

ONCE UPON A TIME, 1991, single-channel, mixed-media video installation

Environmental Legacies: Countdown to the Millennium, curated by Nancy Ann Jones, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena

EL SERENO SERENADE, 1990, multi-channel, mixed media video installation

El Sereno Senior Center, LA Festival

BOUND TO PLEASE, 1989, video and mixed media installation

Beyond Baroque, Venice, California

L.A. RIVER PROJECT, 1989, multi-monitor, single channel, mixed-media video installation

1989: California State University Gallery, Los Angeles

1990: Artists and the Environment, curated by Jay Belloli, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California

1992: Fragile Ecologies: Artists’ Interpretations and Solutions, curated by Barbara Matilsky, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY, and toured nationally by SITES, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Services

1993: Whatcom Museum of History and Art, Bellingham, Washington; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah; Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin

1994: De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Laguna Museum of Art, Laguna Beach, California; Arvada Center for the Arts, Arvada, Colorado

DIANE GAMBOA: ARTIST, 1989

1989: Eyes on Art, the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, California; AFI National Video Festival, Los Angeles, California; Pasadena Community Access Corporation, and citywide during L.A. Freewaves video festival

MEDUSA’S BEAUTY SECRETS, 1988, 10:00, single-channel video

1988: 1708 East Main in Richmond, Virginia; Second Prize, Daniel Wadsworth Memorial Video Festival, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; Goddesses on TV, EZTV, West Hollywood, California

1989: Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California; EZTV, Los Angeles, California; The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, California; LACE Annuale, curated by Miriam Kaiser, Los Angeles, California; ATA in San Francisco, California; Frameline Presents, San Francisco Cable TV

1990: Lesbian Video Festival, EZTV, West Hollywood, California

1991: Seventh Annual International Women’s Day Video Festival, Boston, Massachusetts; Forbidden Language: Beauty and Culture, Southern California Women’s Caucus for Art Annual Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California

CELEBRATE…, 1988, 5:00, single-channel, mixed-media video sculpture

The Woman’s Building Fifth Anniversary Exhibition

OUR LADY OF L.A., 1987, 29:00, documentary

1987: LACE Annuale, Los Angeles, California (collaboration with Kathleen Forrest and Sue Maberry); The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, California; EZTV, Los Angeles, California; San Francisco International Gay and Lesbian Video Festival

2011: Doin’ It on Tape: Video from the Woman’s Building, Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, a Pacific Standard Time event, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, Los Angeles, California, November 13

LEAPS OF FAITH, 1985, 6:00, performance documentary

1985: Cal State Northridge

1989: exhibited on 4 cable stations throughout Los Angeles as part of “The Woman’s Building presents…”

ECLIPSE IN THE WESTERN PALACE, 1977, 5:00, single-channel video

Collection Getty Research Institute

1977: exhibited throughout Australia and New Zealand with tapes from the Los Angeles Women’s Video Center

2007: Women Artists of Southern California Then and Now, curated by Bruria Finkel, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, California

2011: Doin’ It on Tape: Video from the Woman’s Building, Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles, 1945-1980, a Pacific Standard Time event, The Spielberg Theater at the Egyptian, Los Angeles, California, November 13