2004–present / short films and collaborations
Video Works
Ode For Ze
An early moving-image work from the period of St. Mary Majak’s.
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Watch on Vimeo ↗Direction, choreography, and performance by Ann Glaviano and Christopher Givens. Videography by Aaron Sarles. Filmed in Meraux, Louisiana, December 2018; premiered at MOTION CAPTURE at Highways in Los Angeles in January 2019.
Coniunctio
Digital video / 8 minutesThe alchemy of one year.
With music from Adam Schoenberg: “SCATTER,” performed by the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony on September 7, 2017. Conducted by Jason Weinberger and performed with PROJECT TRIO.
Video shot on an Android Galaxy phone.
Lower 9th Ward · Frisco · Miami · Chatham · Moab · Butte · Covid · Holy Cross
half light teaser
A one-minute first look at an on-going film years in the making. In collaboration with Sadie Sheldon, these first scenes were filmed while Sheldon was in residence at The Sitka Center for Art and Ecology in Otis, Oregon in 2018.
All distances of place however wide,
By Sadie Sheldon and Christopher Givens, with the voice of Carolina Casusol. Walt Whitman’s “On the Beach at Night Alone” joins a recording of Haydn’s The Seasons in a work about the vast similitude linking distances, forms, lives, and worlds.
studies in a moving forest
Camera by Christopher Givens; edited by Givens and Sadie Sheldon; music by Gigi Mason. A three-minute study of foliage, movement, and the unstable edge between observation and abstraction.
AnnDunham collaborations
Video collaborations on the occasion of AnnDunham’s exhibition of paintings at Mary Sky. Footage observed and compiled by Christopher Givens, then edited and digitally enhanced by AnnDunham.
Selected video
Early YouTube archive
Early YouTube videos, 2004 to present ↗
rainwater on window
827 at 614.mp4