Hope Hall comes to film and video from a wide range of experiences, primarily theater, modern dance, photography, and travel. She received her BA in History and French from Berkeley in 1991.

Every Ten Seconds
video
16 minutes

If no one can prove that tomorrow will come, why is it almost impossible for us to live in the moment? If we create orders and structures with our own hands and minds, then can't we redefine them? Every Ten Seconds is a meditation on the passage of time, centered on the ritual of New Year's Eve, 1999.

Film Arts Festival, 2001.

this is for betsy hall
16mm, color
6 minutes

this is for betsy hall, is a construction in picture and sound of her mother, a personal film created for her. She is 59 years old. She has had anorexia and bulimia most of her life, and she helped in the creation of this film. The film is an impressionistic montage of filmed video projected onto moving surfaces, underwater self-portrait, stills treated with movements, and acoustic guitar by the filmmaker's brother. Her mother provided the phone interview, most of the photos, and the go-ahead. When her mother first saw herself on video, she said that she did not realize she looked the way she did. The film is for her to keep and to remember what the her daughter sees, for them to watch together, and for audiences to consider the legacies parents leave behind.

FESTIVALS: s.f. bay guardian benefit for proposition g, transmission theater, s.f., SMARTFest '99, rochester community tv, n.y., film arts festival, roxie cinema, s.f., hi/lo film festival, victoria theater, s.f., bay area now II, yerba buena center for the arts, s.f.
BROADCASTS: Broadcasts are scheduled on KQED and the Sundance Channel

Lilli Ann
Digital video
9 minutes

Lilli Ann, co-directed with Gabriel ("the bomb") Rhodes, is a tribute Jesus Chuy Campusano's mural in the Mission District which was whitewashed illegally by the new owners of the building.

FESTIVALS: San Francisco at the Brainwash Movie Festival, 'documental' at the Midnight Special Bookstore in Santa Monica, CA, Golden Shower Film Festival in Texas.

Techno
16mm, black and white
3 minutes

Techno is a poem, an elegy to the landscape of the Silicon Valley (previously known as the Valley of Heart's Delight) and its transformation from open space to wasteland over the course of one lifetime.

FESTIVALS: Field Museum of Chicago's Underground Adventure Film Festival, the Pacific Northwest Festival of Fictional and Anthropological Cinema in Ellensburg, Washington, and the Green Extreme Festival in Salt Spring Island, B.C.