Maïa Cybelle Carpenter is an experimental filmmaker and curator living in San Francisco.
My Works: Clamp
A sexually explicit experimental video. The subject ignores the viewers’ participation in her pleasure, creating a hermetically sealed auto-erotic experience.
Running Time: 10 Minutes
Format: mini DV / BETA SP NTSC, B&W, Sound
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Year: 2000, USA
Cast: Baby Blue Gangster
Distribution: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Center and Collectif Jeune Cinéma
2000 Leather Archives and Museum, Chicago
2001 Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
2001 Ars Electronica, Linz
Clips are made available as a sample of my work.
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"…[P]rocess must not be viewed as a goal or an end in itself, nor must it be confused with and infinite perpetuation of itself.” – Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, The Anti-Oedipus.


All images, texts and clips © Maïa Cybelle Carpenter 1999-2009