KOLMEL W. LOVE
ANIMATION & MOTION GRAPHICS
BEAKMAN & JOK
A short documentary film that explores the complex and fascinating life of Bay Area artist, leather man, AIDS activist and renowned children's science educator Jok Church. Church revolutionized children's science education through his internationally syndicated comic strip, bestselling children's books, and the hit TV Show BEAKMAN'S WORLD.
Co-Director & Producers:
Kolmel W Love & Lex Sloan
Editor: Alex Albers
Trailer Editor: Andrew Sheets
Beakman & Jok is distributed by Frameline: SF International LGBTQ Film Festival.
This film is made possible by a grant from the San Francisco Arts Commission.
ANIMATED FILM
SAME TIME TOMORROW
A quarantine inspired video with original music by Ed Varga.
Online festival screenings 2020
COLLABORATIONS
ROOTED
Safehouse for the Arts
June 13 & 14, 2019
An international collaboration between a performance artist , a dancer and a video artist culiminating in a 20min performance debuted at Safehouse for the Arts in San Francisco.
Director & Choreographer: Tessa Wills
Dancer: Ronja Ver
Animation & Projections: Kolmel W Love
Documentation Photography: Mariah Tiffany
CURATORIAL
SOMArts Cultural Center
August 16 & 17, 2019
"I hope both robots and luddites walk away with a sense of curiosity, encouraged to imagine what the future might hold and what technological tools we might use, discard or redesign to get there" - Kolmel W. Love
Curated by: Sian Morrison & Kolmel W. Love
The festival brings together Bay Area artists and art collectives who leverage technology and new media in order to access the imagination, Futurity and Divine. The Festival features 24 Bay Area artists as part of SOMArts 40th Anniversary.
Complete list of artists: https://www.somarts.org/press-release-rebooting-the-future/
Photos in Slideshow by Robbie Sweeny | Background Photo Credit Per Sia compliments of Artist
ARTIST COMMISSION
SOMArts Cultural Center
August 17, 2019
Artist Television Access
June, 2018
Artist Collaboration with Eddie and the Heartbeats. Video accompanies live performance of the song "One More Miss America." Voices provided by Ed Varga.
Eddie and the Heartbeats: https://www.eddieandtheheartbeats.com/
Kolmel W Love | CV
Education
2007 University of Southern California, MFA High Honors
2003 University of California Los Angeles, BA, Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude
Grants, Residencies, & Collectives
2019 San Francisco Individual Artist Commission Award Recipient
2018 Double Union, Feminist Hacker Collective, San Francisco
2014 SICK Collective, Selected Artist
2013 Queer Cultural Center Grant Recipient
2012 AIRSpace, Artist in Residency, The Garage
2007 International Flaherty Seminar, Student Fellow
Select Curatorial
2019 Rebooting the Future: SOMArts Cultural Center
2012-2016 The News, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
2014 Womenhouse, WORK MORE #6, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco
2013-2015 Frameline Film Festival, Animation, Experimental and Local Shorts, SF
2012 This Is… Film Program, National Queer Arts Festival, Joe Goode Gallery, SF
2006 Homo A Go Go, Co-Director of Film Programming, Olympia, WA
2006 Foursomes, New New School, Rotating venues, Los Angeles
2005 Quit Art, Curated Lectures, New New School, CalArts, Valencia, CA
Select Film Screenings By Film
Beakman & Jok
2021 Frameline: SF International LGBTQ Film Festival, Castro Theater, SF
2021 Long Beach Q Film Festival, Best Director Shorts
2021 Revry Presents Queer X Festival
Guitar Idol
2018 Queer City Cinema 15, Regina, Canada
2018 Festival De Film De Fesses, Paris, France
2018 MIX MEXICO: XXII Sexual Diversity Film Festival, Mexico D.F., Mexico
2018 MIX NYC Experimental Queer Film Festival, Mix Factory, NYC, NY
2018 This Is What I Want Festival, Center for Sex and Culture, SF
2018 Periwinkle Cinema, Artists’ Television Access, SF
2017 Frameline: SF International LGBTQ Film Festival, Victoria Theater, SF
One More Miss America with Eddie & The Heartbeats
2019 Eddie & The Heartbeats, SOMArts Cultural Center, SF
2018 The Ed Varga Experience, Periwinkle Cinema, Artists’ Television Access, SF
Hanky Code: The Movie, Cyan Hankie
2017 Hanky Code: The Movie, Periwinkle Cinema, Artists’ Television Access, SF
2017 GLITCH Film Festival, Center for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, England
2016 Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater, Minneapolis, MN
2015 National Queer Arts Festival, Center for Sex & Culture, SF
2015 MIX NYC Experimental Queer Film Festival, MIX Factory, NYC, NY
2015 Porn Film Festival Berlin, Moviemento Kino Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Alien Sex Video
2015 Frameline Film Festival, Victoria Theater, SF
2014 BAHAHAHAHA, Periwinkle Cinema, Artist Television Access, SF
2013 Summer School 2013: Studying Bodies, Bay Area Public School, Berkeley
2013 Good Queer, LA Glory Holes, 2nd Annual Queer PopUp Art Village, Los Angeles
2013 Charming Roulette, Feminist PopUp Festival, Portland, OR
2012 Strange Attractors: Investigations in Non-Humanoid Extraterrestrial Sexualities,
Book/DVD
Forward Hand
2011 The January 13, The Fifth Dimension, Baltimore, Maryland
2011 Human Resources, Outfest: LA International LGBT Film Festival, REDCAT, LA
2011 Glitter Emergency, Frameline Film Festival, Victoria Theatre,San Francisco
2011 El Pulso De La Comunidad, MIX Mexico, Chopo Theatre, Mexico D.F., Mexico
2011 May Film Series, The Big Gay Warehouse, San Francisco
2009 Slippery Mess, CineMental, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, MA
Select Film Screenings Continued:
2013 Films with Live Soundtracks, Periwinkle Cinema, Artist Television Access, SF
2013 SICK, The Sick Collective, LGBT Center, San Francisco
2010 The Experimentals, Frameline Film Festival, Roxie Theatre, San Francisco
2012 What It Feels Like for a Girl, with Elijah Manelli, Trannyshack at DNA Lounge, SF
2005 TRYmorphous, MIX NYC: Queer Experimental Media Festival, NYC
2004 Sticky Bonds, Outfest: LA International LGBT Film Festival, REDCAT Theater, LA
2004 Brave New Shorts from the Queer Frontier, The Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle
Select Exhibitions, Installations & Performances:
2019 Roots, Collaboration with Artist Tessa Wills, SAFEHouse for the Arts, SF
2015 Thoreau: on Birds and Liberation, Night Life, SOMArts Cultural Center, SF
2014 Loving Care Vagina Painting, Womenhouse, SOMArts Cultural Center, SF
2014 The Seasons, collaboration with Tessa Wills, WORK MORE #6, CounterPULSE, SF
2012 To My Dearest Landscape Painter, AIRSpace Residency Premiere, The Garage, SF
2012 MASTERWORK, director Mica Sigourney, CounterPULSE, SF
2010 Confusion is Sex #2, The Other Side, Los Angeles
2007 The Way We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics, performance with The Toxic Titties,
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF
2006 Yoko Ono's Cut, performance with The Toxic Titties, Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibits (LACE), Los Angeles
2005 Outsights…, The Los Angeles One Institute, Los Angeles
2005 Incognito I & II, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica