Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen Read Bio Collapse
Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen collaborate on film, video, photo-text, book, curatorial, and other research projects. They have produced at least a dozen films exhibited in festivals, museums, cultural centers, squats, windows, and storefronts. Their work includes the situationist film Disaster (1976), collaborative video project State of Emergency (2003-2006), the video essay How Do Animals and Palnts Live? (2018), and the collaborative book Capital’s Greek Cage (Autonomedia, 2013), as well as Disruptive Film, a two-volume DVD set of experimental short-form non-fiction films and videos which they co-curated for Facets Media. Millner’s installations include Protective Coloration and The Domestic Boobytrap, which detournes U.S. army manuals to manifest the vulnerability of domestic space, with blueprints and models of boobytraps placed in everyday life situations. Ernie writes fiction and media criticism. His books include Not a Through Street (1981) and The Trial Before The Trial (2018). He and Sherry are both associate editors of the media journal Jump Cut. They are completing a book version of their email-distributed photo-text altered postcard novel, Monumental Mistakes, an offshoot of Sherry’s ongoing No Respirator Included series comprised of 500+ altered postcards. They are currently editing a lockdown film about the primordial significance of masking in everyday life.