I narrate a sketchbook I kept in Boston and Chicago between 1995 & 2000.
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Q & A @ Myopic Books (10/4/2011)
A q&a after a reading from my first book, upstairs at Myopic Books in 2011. Videography by Seijin Lee.
Show at Buena Vista Projects
c/o 4Art Diaries
Whilst visiting a friend on the east side of Chicago, we decided to check out artist and writer Dmitry Samarov. The exhibition took place at the Buena Vista Projects gallery space, 10056 S Ewing Ave, Chicago, IL 60617, over a period of three months. Dmitry documents his stay, day to day activity, in his own unique creative style of what I would call visual story telling. His work was made up of drawings, paintings and collage of sorts. The walls were, for the most part, his canvas.
What I See
Something I made for WBEZ in 2013.
“Where to?” trailers
In 2014, ahead of the ill-fated publication of my second book, I made these short stop-motion animations with music provided by friends.
Music by Magas.
Music by Bud Melvin.
Music by Bill MacKay.
Hack: A conversation w/ Dmitry Samarov by John McNaughton
In 2012 director John McNaughton shot a conversation in the last weeks of Dmitry Samarov’s cabbie career.
Hack trailer
Filmed by University of Chicago Press publicist Liz Fischer in 2011.
Mersanes Benz is the car for me!!!
Chicago’s Watershed
Chicago’s Watershed: A 156-Mile Choreography
Wendy Clinard, choreography
EStrella Piano Duo, piano
Wendy Clinard, Andrea Petersen, Marisela Tapia, dancers
Dmitry Samarov, art work
Renato Velarde, video and audio producer
With Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring as the starting point, our bold new work pairs Wendy Clinard’s original Flamenco-based choreography with exciting EStrella Piano Duo’s performance and Dmitry Samarov’s video-projected ink work for an exploration of the dissonance and consonance of the Chicago River and the city it sustains.
Wendy Clinard: “My Chicago’s Watershed choreography, like Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring, is constantly shifting, changing – slower, faster, layered, singular; one minute hysterical, the next calm…like the river and its’ web of intricate relationships.”
This project was premiered in June 2014 at the University of Chicago Logan Center for the Arts.
Vigil by Stuart Dybek
A reading of Stuart Dybek’s “Vigil”. Hand-typed and illustrated by Dmitry Samarov for Chicago Independent Bookstore Day, 2015.