Jennifer West

Emoji Piss Film

35mm film print soaked and corroded with urine by Andrea Bowers, Symrin Chawla, Micah Espudo, Chris Hanke, Eli Joteva, Jack McGuinn, Peyton Regan, Julian Toca, Vidhi Todi, Bob Viera, Cameron Wells, Ariel West., Fleurette West, Peter West, Jwest.

Pink Beach Red Desert Dream Sand Film

Jennifer West won a 35mm film print of Michelangelo Antonioni’s film Red Desert (1964) on Russian Ebay and dragged it along the Pink Beach off the coast of Sardinia, Italy, where some scenes of the film were shot. Fragments of coral and crushed shell create pink-hued sand that mark the surface of Antonioni’s first color film. Grains of sand and rocks coalesce upon and scratch the surface of the film, which was then transferred to HD frame by frame.

Film Title Poem

Film Title Poem is comprised of over 500 film title cards.

Spiral of Time Documentary Film

Saline bodies, water. Buckets, film. Materiality, memory. Erosion, elision. Time, travel. Spiral, Jetty. Salt Lake, Dead Sea. Jennifer West’s fervent materialism is by now well documented—strewn as her films are with materials, which she then indexes in her paragraph-long titles—as are the dialectical relationships she plumbs with awesome hallucinatory fever. Likewise, her films Spiral of Time Documentary Film and Salt Crystals Spiral Jetty Dead Sea Five Year Film (both 2013) materialize—no, metabolize—more of these things. Travelogues in the elliptical way that Tony Conrad’s black painted frames on paper, his seventies-era “Yellow Movies,” were movies, West’s recent films are admixtures of shot images and abstract, material traces, in the acid-y palette that is her signature.

Salt Crystals Spiral Jetty Dead Sea Five Year Film

Geological elements and erosion leave marks on a strip of 70mm film that floated in the Dead Sea and soaked in clay before getting stuffed in a suitcase to be brought back to Los Angeles, where it was submerged and sat in buckets filled with mud and salt for years in the artist’s studio. After five years, Jennifer West dragged the film along the mud and salt crystal encrusted spiral of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty before throwing it in the icy pink waters of Utah’s Great Salt Lake—the film’s frames were then digitally photographed and re-stitched together. Through material traces of mud, salt crystals and sand, distant places and layered temporalities flicker across a film that lasts less than one minute.

Arrid Extra Dry TV Commercial Film

16mm film print painted with birth control pills, writing inks and sweat - bought from a Brooklyn, New York street vendor.

One Mile Film

5,280 feet of 35mm film negative and print taped to the mile-long High Line walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors - the visitors walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded, keyed, melted popsicles, spit, scratched, stomped, left shoe prints of all kinds and put gum on the filmstrip.

Heavy Metal Sharks Calming Jaws Reversal Film

faded pink super 8 film print - library copy of select scenes from Jaws - from Lorain, Ohio public library - treated with black fabric dye enriched with heavy metals: iron and zinc vitamins, celluloid grated with stone, whipped with hair headbanging, impressed with thumb and pink prints devil ears.

Just Kids Film Necklace - for Patti Smith Film

65mm film negative RAY-O-GRAM made by laying 100 foot long necklace atop the film negative, exposing it with colored flashlights - made in front of live audience in Rome, Italy - featuring 100 foot long leather necklace strung with pasta and mussel shells collected in Rome, and sea shells, eucalyptus pods and a few feathers from California - flashlights performed by students from Rome: Nicloletta Guglielmucci, Ludovica Palmieri, Alessia Notarangelo, Lorenza Bessone, Elisabetta Masala, Givlia Fontani, Damaride D'Andrea, Claudia Cavaliera, Antonio Pizzolante, Saverio Verini, Cristina Meregaglia and Mariah Csepanyi and Jwest, 2011, 32 seconds 65mm film transferred to hi definition video

Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film

16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide, cuervo, sunscreen, hydrogen peroxide, tecate, sand, tar, scraped with a shark’s tooth, edits made by the surf and a seal while film floated in waves.

I ♥ Neutrinos: You Cant See Them but They are Everywhere

70mm Film Frames of Neutrino Movements - shot in 15 ft Bubble Chamber at Fermilab, Experiment 564 in Chicago - dunked in liquid nitrogen, neutrino movements outlined with invisible ink and decoder markers and highlighters, inked up by Monica Kogler and Jwest, filmstrip from Janet Conrad, MIT Professor of Physics, 2011

Rainbow Party

70mm film kissed with lipstick & impressed with teeth marks.

Lavender Mist Film/Pollock Film 1

70mm film leader rubbed with Jimson Weed Trumpet flowers, spraypainted, dripped and splattered with nail polish, sprayed with lavender mist air freshener, 2009, 46 seconds 70mm film transferred to digital video

A 70mm Film Wearing Thick Heavy Black Liquid Eyeliner That Gets Smeary

70mm film leader lined with liquid black eyeliner, doused with Jello Vodka shots and rubbed with body glitter.

Riot Grrrl Alchemy Film

16mm b&w and color film neg danced on with sneakers, sprayed with cherry tomatoes, rubbed with cinnamon butter buns, strawberries and candy bars – based on lyrics from Sleater Kinney, Bikini Kill and Le Tigre – food fight on the table performances by Ariel West & Jwest, shot on superbowl Sunday by Peter West who was kind of drunk.

Skinnydipping Carbon Beach Malibu Film

Skinnydipping Carbon Beach Malibu Film – In Front of David Geffen's House (16MM color and b&w film neg sprayed with fried pickle juice, painted with Bloody Marys using, celery stalks & ash from the Malibu fires, submerged in the ocean – skinnydipping by Renee Lotenero, Lia Trinka-Browner, Karen Liebowitz & Jwest – lit by the full moon & search lights)

Roadtrip Between LA and Seattle Film

16mm color negative, positive and b&w negative scratched with tumbleweed, tire treads, pine needles, sprinkled with BlackJax extreme energizers pills, coffee, donuts, hot cheetohs & doused with gasoline & gatorade

Jam Licking & Sledgehammered

70MM Film Leader Covered in Strawberry Jam, Grape Jelly and Orange Marmalade - licked and sledgehammered by Jim Shaw, Marnie Weber, Mariah Csepanyi, Bill Parks, Alex Johns, Karen Liebowitz, Roxana Eslamieh, Chaney Trotter & Jwest- a filmic restaging of moments from Allan Kaprow's 'Household', 2008, 3 minutes, 17 seconds 70mm film transferred to digital video

Daisies Roll Up Film

16mm color and b&w film neg rolled with hard boiled eggs, oranges, lemons, avocados, pickles, green apples, milk and watermelon – a remake of a scene from Vera Chytilova’s 1966 film, Daisies – rolling off the bed performances by: Mariah Csepanyi, Finn West & Jwest, lit with black light & strobe light.

Seriously Film

70MM Film Leader soaked in MSG and boiling water - inscribed & stamped with the word seriously - with Viagra, Visine and Fake tanning lotion, 2008, 1 minute, 1 second 70mm film transferred to digital video

Nirvana Alchemy Film

16mm black & white film soaked in lithium mineral hot springs, pennyroyal tea, doused in mud, sopped in bleach, cherry antacid and laxatives - jumping by Finn West & Jwest.

Psychosomatic Films 1-5

Psychosomatic Film#1 (16mm film negative soaked in energy drinks: Orange Dream Machine - Amp - Full Throttle), Psychosomatic Film#2 (16mm film negative soaked in energy drinks: Mango-a-gogo, Rockstar, Adrenaline Rush), Psychosomatic Film#3(16mm film negative soaked in energy drinks: Focus, Wheatgrass, Pomegranate, Monster), Psychosomatic Film#4 (16mm film negative soaked in energy drinks: Naked, Red Bull, NitroGo, Power), Psychosomatic Film#5 (16mm film negative soaked in energy drinks: Revive, No Fear, Essential, Superpowers, Berrylime Sublime)

Neutrino, Gamma, Alpha, Quantum Dots Film

16 and 35mm film negative tangled inside darkened film tent for ten hours and exposed to: neutron, gamma and alpha sources and quantum dots in liquid scintillator

Tar Pits Film

Tar pits form as petroleum seeps to the surface through fissures in the Earth’s crust, leaving viscous asphalt pools. To make Tar Pits Film, Jennifer West threw a strip of film into the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, still-bubbling asphalt pools which have seeped from the ground for tens of thousands of years. The film was then ridden over hot asphalt by a motorcycle and drenched in other substances including thick mayonnaise and body lotion.