Naomi Uman

Leche

Made with the most rudimentary tools of filmmaking LECHE is a black and white film which examines details of the lives of a rural Mexican family. The film was hand-processed in buckets to dry on the clothesline.

Note: In Spanish and English. Sound begins a few minutes into film.

1998, 16mm, b&w/so, 30m, $90

Mala Leche

This film, hand processed and hung to dry on the clothesline, examines details of the life of one family, living on an isolated dairy ranch in Central Mexico, and then follows members of the same family to California's agricultural Central Valley where they continue to work with dairy cattle.

1998 16mm black and white/color mono optical sound 47 minutes $135

Removed

Using a piece of found European porn from the 1970s, nail polish and bleach, this film creates a new pornography, one in which the woman exists only as a hole, an empty, animated space.

1999, 16mm, color/so, 6m, $20

Private Movie

This love story in three parts recounts the amorous journeys of one woman, in love with places, pets, men and nostalgia.

2000, 16mm, b&w/so, 6m, $20

Hand Eye Coordination

The film tells the story of its own making.

2002, 16mm, co/so, 10m, $40