For cinematography and lighting credits, see separate listing About / Production Credits.
TEACHING
1995-2002 University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television, Screenwriting and Production Divisions, Adjunct Professor; classes in Production, Cinematography and Autobiography for Screenwriters
1999 California State University Los Angeles, Communications Studies. Lecturer; Motion Picture Photography
1990-92 California State University Los Angeles College of Fine Arts, Department of Motion Pictures & Television, Tutor to native Deaf graduate film student, in conjunction with the Office for Students with Disabilities
1989-90 California State University Northridge, Department of Radio, Television & Film, Assistant Professor, Film History & Theory, Film as Literature
1988-89 Otis Art Institute / Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, Continuing Education Division, Instructor, Film Production
1988 California State University Northridge Department of Radio, Television & Film, Assistant Professor, Film Production
1979-81 University of California Los Angeles, Department of Motion Pictures & Television, Sound Design for Film, Sound Rerecording, Teaching Assistant / Instructor
PUBLICATIONS & COLLOQUIA
* RHINOCEROS HEARTS AND SOUR CREAM, Poems & Drawings for children by Lois Halpern Amy Halpern, Editor & Designer, Ambient Light Press, 2013
* WOMEN WHO RUN THE SHOW: How a New Generation of Women Stormed Hollywood, by Molly Gregory, St. Martin’s Published interview, 2002
* WORDS THAT MELT IN THE MIND: The Melding of Picture and Text on the Screen, 2001 Paper and presentation, Image & Text Conference, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas
* WOMEN BEHIND THE CAMERA, Alexis Krasilovsky, editor
Chapter 17 interview w/ Amy Halpern, Praeger, 1997
* FIRST PERSON CINEMA, paper, 1996 Delivered to the University Film & Video Association’s 50th Annual Conference, Chapman College, California
* TRANSITIONS, PAINTINGS OF RICHARD PORTMAN Catalogue of paintings. Photographs of the artist and his work, LeMoyne Center for the Visual Arts, Tallahassee, Florida, 1987
SOME WORDS: A MANIFESTO, in NEW, L.A.I.C.A. Journal, Beyond Baroque Foundation Press, Venice, California 1977
CURRICULUM DESIGN
1999 California State University Los Angeles, Department of Communication Studies, Motion Picture Photography
1997 University of Southern California, School of Cinema/Television, Graduate Screenwriting Program, Introduction to Film Production
1997 University of Southern California, Majors for Minors/Ambient Light Institute, McKinley Elementary School, Santa Monica/Malibu Unified School District; with University of Southern California, Annenberg Foundation, Gelya Frank, PhD, principal investigator, Introduction to Filmmaking & Visual Anthropology
1995 University of Southern California, School of Cinema/Television, Filmic Writing Division, The Affective Domain: Autobiography for Screenwriters
1990-92 U.C.L.A., College of Fine Arts, Dept. of Motion Pictures & Television, Filmmaking Syllabus for Deaf Students
1987 Design of curriculum for new film department for the University of Florida, Tallahassee, with Richard Portman (The program was implemented in 1989 and is now a flourishing film school.)
1979-80 U.C.L.A., College of Fine Arts, Dept. of Motion Pictures & Television, Member, Faculty-Student Committee for Restructuring the Film Production Curriculum
CURATORIAL, RESEARCH & ARCHIVAL
2010-2014 Research Associate, DANCE OF THE MAIZE GOD
1996-2007 Research Associate, BREAKING THE MAYA CODE
National Endowment of the Humanities grants 1999 & 2001; National Science Foundation, 2004
2002 Jury member, Princeton Film Festival
1999 Film program of West Coast American Experimental Film shown at Magdalene College, Oxford University; Brookes University, Oxford; St. Martins College of Art & Design, London
1980 Film Shrapnel Show – 54 portrait stills (of 186) from the film FALLING LESSONS and work by 2 other filmmakers, Otis/Parsons Art Institute, Los Angeles, California 1980-2002 Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, compiled and maintained archive. Incorporated into the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C, 2002
1975-80 Los Angeles Independent Film Oasis, Founder, programmer, projectionist; President (1978-79)
1972-74 Collective for Living Cinema, New York City, Founder, programmer, projectionist
SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS
2015 Seminar, Documentary and Experimental Film, Cinema Verite Film Festival, Tehran, Iran
2014 Performance & seminar Single Wing Turquoise Bird light show, Visions & Voices, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
2014 Workshop & performance MAYA VARIATIONS, Kansas State University, with Yuval Ron
2010 University of Southern California, Visions & Voices, FilmForum Alternative Projections, Single Wing Turquoise Bird films, OUT OF OUR DEPTH filmed light show & other films including INVOCATION
2010 USC, Visions & Voices, FilmForum Alternative Projections Seminar, re: The L.A. Film Oasis, screening of films including FILAMENT
2009 Workshops on reading Maya Glyphs @ Cal. State L.A., the Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland and at various film festivals: Eugene, Oregon, Santa Fe, New Mexico in conjunction with screenings of BREAKING THE MAYA CODE
1997 Visual Anthropology for Second Graders in U.S.C. Majors for Minors/Ambient Light Institute McKinley Elementary School, second graders; Santa Monica/Malibu Unified School District
1996 Introduction to Filmmaking, lectures & demonstrations for Dine (Navajo) high school students. Gallup, New Mexico & Chinle, Window Rock & Tuba City, Arizona Ambient Light Institute under the auspices of the Gallup Film Festival
1994 Introduction to Film at various preschool and elementary schools including Room-to-Grow, San Francisco, California and The Ashbal School, Damascus, Syria
1994 California State University Northridge, Dept. of Radio, Television & Film Advanced Lighting for Cinematographers, Visiting Instructor
1988 “Careers in the Media”, Presenter. Oxnard School District, Migrant Education Program
1988 Torrance Community Television; Video Lighting and Production, Instructor
1983 Communications Bridge Institute, Los Angeles, Lighting for Dark Skin, Visiting Lecturer
EDUCATION
1989 Master of Fine Arts, Film Production, University of California Los Angeles, School of Fine Arts, Department of Motion Pictures & Television
1979 Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of California Los Angeles, School of Fine Arts, Department of Motion Pictures & Television
1970-71 State University of New York, Binghamton, Harper College
1967-70 Modern dancer in the company of Lynda Gudde; student of Anna Sokolow and of Meredith Baylis of the Joffrey Ballet
AWARDS
2000-2003 Artist Residency at S.P.A.R.C., Venice, California, Judy Baca, Director
1998 Best Experimental Documentary, New York International Independent Film & Video Festival for FALLING LESSONS
1976 Chancellor’s Award for Undergraduate Research, U.C.L.A.
1970 New York State Regents Award
AMY HALPERN
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