CODY EDISON

Artist Films

Listed below is a selection of the films and projects that I have worked on with artists and documentarians in different capacities (specified). In addition, I’ve listed the venues for screenings, exhibitions, and select press affiliated with the work. If you are in need of any assistance on a film or project, please do not hesitate to reach out to me.

Films/Projects:

2017- : Bleak Beauty, Danny & Nancy Lyon (Film Distribution)

2013- : Deep End Sessions, David Bunn (Camera & Editor)

2020: SNCC, Danny Lyon (Assistant Editor & Technical Assistant)

2020: God’s Suicide, Harmony Holiday (Technical Assistant)

2019: Avery, Christine Wood (Set Photographer)

2018: The Secret Story, Janie Geiser (Color Correction)

2018: Lost Motion, Janie Geiser (Color Correction)

2017: Wanderer, Danny Lyon (Assistant Editor)

2015: A Portrait: Allan Sekula, Ohan Breiding (Editor)

2015: Epitaph for Family: Magic Hour, Ohan Breiding (Editor)

2012-2013: Remembering Brett Weston - 3 episodes, Kim & Gina Weston (Editor)

2012: Kim Weston Painted Photographs Lecture, Kim & Gina Weston (Editor)

2012: Kim Weston Painted Photographs with Curator Huntington Witherill, Kim & Gina Weston (Director, Camera & Editor)

2011: El Sistema Youth Orchestra Salinas (Camera & Editor)

2010-2012: CalArts Poetry Collective (Producer, Camera & Editor)

Highlights:

A Portrait: Allan Sekula by ohaN Breiding

“…One of the highlights of the exhibition is ‘A Portrait’ (2015) by photographer Johanna Breiding, which, as expressed in the piece’s artist statement, ‘begins with death and ends with the sea.’ This piece references an anonymous letter to Bill Gates after his acquisition of an 1885 Winslow Homer painting called ‘Lost on the Grand Banks,’ which Breiding signals to in the video element of the installation. In addition to showcasing Breiding’s photography practice, ‘A Portrait’ is an intertextual and pleasurable genre-promiscuous work that extends her photographic work into video and installation, yielding an experiential pathos upon the quiet meditation Breiding gifts to viewers on art, commerce, and their friendship with the late American photographer, writer, filmmaker, theorist, and critic Allan Sekula.” - Hyperallergic

Epitaph for family : Magic Hour (excerpt) by ohan Breiding

“Breiding’s meditation on the broad horizon of what it means to be a queer family opened on the heels of the Supreme Court’s ruling that same-sex marriage is a national legal right in the United States. The timing of this immersive, contemplative exhibition could not have been more apt. Taking the motif of the horizon as a point of departure, Breiding juxtaposed 16mm films of the sea’s horizon in the crepuscular hours with a multi-channel video of queer artists and activists seated at tables in their homes while they reflected on the complex question of how families, especially non-normative ones, might exist in the present.” - Art in America

Museum, Gallery, and Theatrical Screenings: Whitney Museum of American Art (NYC); Anthology Film Archives (NYC); Gavin Brown’s Enterprise (NYC); MOCA (LA); Made in L.A. 2020: a version at the Hammer Museum & Huntington Library (LA); Human Resources (LA); The Center for Contemporary Arts (Santa Fe); The Center for Creative Photography (Tucson); Etherton Gallery (Tucson); Oakland Museum of Art (Oakland); The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco); Angels Gate Cultural Center (San Pedro); SLOMA (San Luis Obisbo)

Film Festivals: The Social Justice Now Film Festival (California); FilmFest DC (Washington, D.C.); Tuscaloosa Africana Film Festival (Alabama); Sidewalk Film Festival (Alabama); The Sarasota Film Festival (Florida); Glimmerglass Film Days (New York); The Las Vegas Jewish Film Festival (Las Vegas); Olhar de Cinema – Curitiba International Film Festival (Brazil)

Select Press: New York Times (SNCC); LA Times (Deep End Sessions); Art in America (Epitaph for Family); Hyperallergic (A Portrait: Allan Sekula); Magnum (SNCC)

Highlights:

SNCC (TRAILER) BY DANNY LYON

“SNCC is the most ambitious and documentary of Mr. Lyon’s films — but like his others, most of which are free to watch via his Vimeo page — it is also personal. The poetic and idiosyncratic influence of Robert Frank, with whom Mr. Lyon shared his first film camera, is evident. Mr. Lyon calls SNCC a ‘compilation film,’ collaged from his own photographs, notably many that have never been published, as well as new interviews with fellow activists, shot on hand-held camera, and vintage recordings, including the organization’s leader James Forman’s stirring and resonant speeches.” - New York Times

Wanderer (Video stills) by Danny Lyon

“Wanderer (2017) sees Lyon revisiting members of the Sanchez and Jaramillo families, whom he has filmed and photographed going back to the 1970s. It most notably follows up his feature film Willie (1985), as we learn the fate of Willie, Ferny, and others, of people living in and out of prison and poverty, with violence often lurking.” - MOCA Los Angeles