RAIN PAINTING
Landscapes are seen from a car as raindrops striking the glass “paint” what is beyond in a variety of textures and moods. Three realities are represented: the landscape viewed through the window, rain patterns on the window surface, and the space inside the car.
Completed 2014
approximately 6 minutes
original format: HD digital video
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Rain Painting has been included in the recently published book, LOST HIGHWAYS, EMBODIED TRAVELS; the Road Movie in American Experimental Film and Video, by Kornelia Boczkowska: https://brill.com/display/title/64181
RAIN PAINTING SCREENINGS
One and Two-person Screenings
Illusions, a retrospective of the filmmaker’s water-themed films at The Film-Maker’s Coop, New York City, 2025
Journey(s) the Personal Cinema of Ann Deborah Levy, a retrospective of her short films screened Millennium Film Workshop, Brooklyn, NY 2023
Ann Deborah Levy and Gary Goldberg, inaugural program the experimental screening series, Hijack, curated by Joey Huertas. Brooklyn Community Foundation, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Ann Deborah Levy and Chris Lynn; Travelers with Cameras, Port Washington Public Library, Port Washington, NY, 2016
Festival and Curated Group Screenings
Quotidian Pleasures in the series; LONG LIVE THE UNDERGROUND! Six Decades of The Film-Makers’ Cooperative and Millennium Film Workshop, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City, 2026
Water, Water, Everywhere, curated by Jason Duval and Matt McKinzie, Artistic Director, The Film-Maker’s Cooperative, at Black Rock Arts, Buffalo, NY, 2025 https://www.blackrockarts.biz/exhibitions/water
Water Works, curated by the Film-Makers Coop and The Public Art Fund as part of the ongoing project No Swimsuit Needed, New York City 2024 https://www.publicartfund.org/programs/view/no-swimsuit-required/
Pyscho-Georgraphy2 at Other Cinema, San Francisco, 2024
Lost Highways, Embodied Travels, curated by Kornelia Boczkowska, UnionDocs, Queens, NY 2023
Experimental Documentaries, curated by Tova Beck-Friedman, Cellular Cinema, Minneapolis, MN, 2016
New Year, New Works, curated by Joel Schlemowitz, The Film-Makers’ Cooperative, New York City, 2016
Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Bilbao, SPAIN, 2015.
Kraljevski Filmski Festival, Kraljevo, SERBIA, festival, 2015.
Female Eye Film Festival, Toronto, CANADA, 2015.
Athens International Film and Video Festival, Athens, OH, 2015.
International Video Art Festival, Camaguey, CUBA, 2015.
Parameter of a Day, Boundary of a Mind curated by Tomonari Nishikawa, at Moving, an experimental film festival, Kyoto, JAPAN, 2015.
Experimental Documentaries, curated by Tova Beck-Friedman, Anthology Film Archives, New York City, 2015.
honorable mention, James River Shorts, Richmond, VA, 2014.
Urban/Rural Landscapes 8, curated by Chris Lynn, Utopia Film Festival, Greenbelt, MD, 2014.
Moving Along a Line, Yesterday and Tomorrow, curated by Tomonari Nishikawa, Transient Visions, Festival of the Moving Image, Johnson City (Binghamton), NY, 2014. http://www.transientvisions.org/