Jacqueline Wright plays a shape-shifting elf, the product of an alchemical mixture of internalized misogyny, white supremacy and sexual repression; abuse, Hollywood and delusion.
Jasmine Orpilla, performer, composer, singer, and pre-colonial martial artist, plays Chet, a duende, a slayer of hidden folk in one of a six-part short film series about the psychological effects of white supremacy. In interviews, actions, and written text, Orpilla describes the spirit of the times where those who must avenge injustice prepare.
Writer, director, interviewer: Asher Hartman. Featuring: Jasmine Orpilla, in their own words and performing written text. Shot by: Jasmine Orpilla under the direction of Asher Hartman and lighting director Chu-Hsuan Chang. Outdoor-indoor photography by Ian Byers-Gamber. Father sculpture by Brian Getnick. Handcrafted masks by Joe Seely. Titles by Jinha Song.
→ "Gawdafful Films", Asher Hartman, Brian Getnick, Chu-Hsuan Chang, Ian Byers-Gamber, Jasmine Orpilla, Jinha Song, Joe Seely
Excerpts from Asher Hartman’s Purple Electric Play! Video by Ian Byers-Gamber and David Fenster. Edited by Asher Hartman and Ian Byers-Gamber
→ "The Silver, the Black, the Wicked Dance", Bryatt Bryant, Chelsea Rector, Joe Seely, Kensington Smith, Paul Outlaw, Philip Littell, Zut Lors
Lost Privilege Company rehearsing for a new work inspired by John Cassavetes’ film Husbands, thinking about love, the permeability of bodies, masculinity, whiteness, loss and inexpressible desire. This film, once so important to me as a barometer of freedom and masculinity, now registers as an inability to register violence, to admire it, normalize it and equate it with beauty.
→ "The Lost Privilege Company", Arne Gjelten, Asher Hartman, Brian Getnick, Tim Reid
Brian Getnick, Arne Gjelten, Tim Reid, and Asher Hartman (director) came together as The Lost Privilege Company in 2018 to interpret four poems from Blunt Research Group’s “The Work-Shy.” The Lost Privilege Company presented its performance at USC’s Brain and Creativity Institute in an evening of performances by scholar and historian Miroslava Chávez-García, writer M. Nourbese Philip, literary historian Caleb Smith and poet and scholar Daniel Tiffany. Video by Ian Byers-Gamber. This work has been recreated and filmed in the artist’s studio.
→ "The Lost Privilege Company", Arne Gjelten, Asher Hartman, Brian Getnick, Tim Reid
Sorry Atlantis, Eden’s Achin’ Organ Seeks Revenge, Machine Project, LA, 2017
In this clip, The Dope Elf, played by Jacqueline Wright, performs “Buckwild,” the elf’s admission of who she is and the power she wields.
→ "See What Love the Father Has Given Us", Jacqueline Wright
This clip features moments from Blessed with Switch, written and directed by Asher Hartman and performed by Jasmine Orpilla.
In this work, Jasmine Orpilla and Asher Hartman investigate the use of language as. it hacks at and tears apart the feminine internal imaginary.
