Mark O'Connell

Education

1988 Advanced Bachelors, Philosophy, Occidental College, Los
Angeles, CA

1994 MFA, Photography--Digital Imaging, University of
Washington,
Seattle, WA

Screenings:

2003

Festival Némo, Paris France
MONA, Museum of New Art, Detroit, Michigan
Reel Noise at Noiselab, Seattle Washington
Project 101, Paris France
University of Chicago, Illinois
Out North Contemporary Arts, Anchorage, Alaska
Cinema Obscura, Santa Barbara, CA
Cinema Vortex, University of Miami, Florida
Noise Lab, Seattle,
The Milky Way, Boston,
Heaven Gallery, Chicago
At Galeria do poste, Gravoatá, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
SF Camerawork, San Fracisco, CA
Blaffer Gallery, Houston, TX
Digital New School, Ann Arbor Film Festival

2002

The Monkey Show, Phoenix, AZ
Spaceboat TV, Experience Music Project, Seattle
Strange Brew, Springfield Ohio
Fire Station #3, Houston TX
Cinefeel Audiovisual Lounge, London
Ithaca College, Ithaca NY
Strange Brew, Springfield Ohio
Bellevue Art Museum Film & Video Festival, Bellevue WA
El Rio Outdoor Cinema, San Francisco
MSC Film Society, Texas A&M (IE)
One Reel Film Festival, Bumbershoot, Seattle WA
Independent Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Video Medeja, Novi Sad, Yugoslavia
LA Freewaves, Los Angeles CA
Counterflow, SFSU, San Francisco, CA
Rio Theatre, Santa Cruz, CA

2001

Images du Nouveau Monde Film Festival, Quebec Canada
Catacomb microCinema, Winnipeg Canada
Newport Beach Film Festival
Personal Vision Festival, Kobe, Japan
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA
Mini-Cine, Shreveport, Louisiana
Crash Festival, Mexico City
Seattle International Film Festival
Videoex, Zurich, Switzerland
Sala Zero, Monterey, Mexico
Heneglo, The Netherlands
Independent Exposure
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
Dinkytowner Cafe, Minneapolis, Minnesotta
El Habito, Mexico City
Yoyo a Go go, Olympia WA
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
Backup Festival, Bauhaus University, Weimar Germany
Metro Arts, Brisbane Australia
Cinema Slam, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Northwest Film Center, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
Project 101, Paris France
VIII Festival De Cinema Independent, Barcelona Spain

2000

Independent Exposure, Seattle WA
Artpool, Stockholm Sweden
Media City Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Windsor ON, Canada
Chinsegut Film and Video Festival, University of South Florida, Tampa
Catacomb Microcinema, Winnipeg Canada
Incredibly Strange Film Festival, Auckland, New Zealand
Enter Multimediale, Prague CZ
Side on Screenings, Australia
Hollywood Shorts, Los Angeles
Gun Powder Store - Barutana, Belgrade
Open University, Subotica, Yugoslavia
Melbourne Underground Film Festival- Melbourne, Australia
Norrkoping Film Festival, Norrkoping Sweden
Wollongong Fringe Film Festival, Wollongong Australia
BARUTANA, Belgrade Serbia
Volxkino, Vienna Austria
LA Freewaves, Los Angeles
Alternate Routes, Windsor Ontario, Canada
IndieKino Online Film Festival, Korea
Ovar Film/Video Festival, Portugal
CRASH Audiovisual Festival, Mexico City
Deauville Film Fest, France
2000 Northwest Film & Video Festival, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
Belgrade Film Festival, Yugoslavia

1999

1999 Northwest Film & Video Festival, Portland Art Museum, Portland OR
Erotic Mythology Festival. Moo Art, NYC
Les Soires cafs-vido Basse-Normandie, France
Myth.com Washington, DC
Ovar Video 99 Ovar, Portugal
Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
Bumbershoot, Seattle WA
Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue WA
"dipstick", Howard House Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo exhibition)
Darklight Digital Film Festivalî, Dublin, Ireland
Flo Film Festival, Florida
Conduit Digital Film Festival, Austin, TX
The Knitting Factory (Video Lounge), New York, NY
Independent Exposure, Seattle, WA
LOW-FI VIDEO, Cinema Rex, Belgrade, Serbia
INDEPENDENT STATE, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Art In General, New York, NY
Revelation Independent Film Festival, Australia (touring)
Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, Thailand

1998

Cinematexas, Austin, TX
Catacomb Microcinema, Winnipeg, Canada
Blue Sky International Film Festival, Las Vegas, NV
The Knitting Factory, Video Lounge, New York, NY
International Festival of New Film, Split, Croatia
Bumbershoot, Seattle, WA

Euro Underground Tour 1998: Krakow, Poland: Kino Mikro and Theatre
Lazina. Prague, Czech-Republic: The Terminal Bar and The Independent
Prague Film Festival.
Sofia, Bulgaria: House of Cinema. Berlin, Germany

The Territory, Texas Public Television, PBS affiliate KUHT Houston, TX
Film Arts Foundation (The Look of Love), San Francisco, CA
Boulder Outdoor Film Festival, Boulder, CO
Berkeley Outdoor Film Festival, Berkeley, CA
Recontres Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France
KINO SLEAZARNA PRIMO SHOWO, Prague, Czech-Republic
Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Macedonia
Rough and Ruined Film Festival, touring show- Canada, US, Europe
Impakt Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vrij Media Kafe, Amsterdam, Netherlands
P.A.R.K.4DTV, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Euro Underground, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Arizona International Film Festival, Tucson, Arizona
Kick the Machine, Bangkok, Thailand
Illumination Gallery, www.pseudo.com
Best of the Northwest, Northwest Film Center/Portland ArtMuseum
www.thesync.com
Satellite Alternative Film-Vid Festival, Seattle, WA
Artists Television Access, SFO
Stanford Film Society, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
The Can, Tacoma, WA
Eye for an Eye Cinema, Boulder, CO
Arts Edge (Seattle Center), Seattle, WA
www.film.com
Independent Exposure, Seattle WA
Immedia, University of Michigan
The Casting Couch, San Francisco CA
Mansion Theatre, Baltimore, MD
Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
North Carolina Independent Filmmakers Association

1997

Open Screens, San Francisco, CA
The Knitting Factory, New York, NY
Locarno Video Art Festival, Locarno, Switzerland
"Midnight Theatre", PBS Affiliate KCTS-TV, Seattle, WA
Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
Northwestern Exposure, Tacoma WA
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
Independent Exposure, Seattle, WA
Arts Edge (Seattle Center), Seattle, WA
Satellite Alternative Film-Vid Festival, Seattle, WA
Midnight Special, Santa Monica CA
3 Knocks and a Whistleî (collection of performance works) The
Speakeasy,
Seattle WA

1996

Edinburgh Fringe Film and Video Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland
Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Velvet Elvis, Seattle, WA
Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA 1993, 1994
Dallas Film and Video Festival, Dallas, TX
New York QuickTime Festival, Pratt University, New York, NY, First
Place Winner

1995

San Francisco Film/Poetry/Video Festival, San Francisco, CA
911 Media Center, Seattle, WA
1995 Northwest Film and Video Festival, Portland Art Museum, Portland,
OR
Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA
"Midnight Theatre", PBS Affiliate KCTS-TV, Seattle, WA

Awards

1996 First Place, New York QuickTime Festival

1998 Seattle Arts Commission grant

1998 Artists Trust grant

1998 "Best of the Northwest" compilation, Northwest Film Center,
Portland Art Museum

1999 King County Arts Commission grant

2000 Seattle Arts Commission purchase

2001 King County Arts Commission grant

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