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Eating Alaska
A wry exploration of sustainable food choices through the eyes of a former vegetarian grappling with what to eat on the last frontier.
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Works in Progress
  • Eating Alaska
    A potentially stereotype-breaking, thought-provoking, and quirky documentary about seemingly nurturing women who hunt.
  • Time, Place, Object
    An unconventional documentary about individuals and their connection to landscape, the passage of time and the "things" they put meaning into or are letting go of.
  • Women on Tap
    A border and media-crossing look at gender and the service industry, in collaboration with New York City based visual artist, Shelly Lightburn.

Recent

Traveling Eyes: An Exhibit of Portraits of Sitka Native Elders and Artisans receives a grant from the Alaska Humanities Forum

30 pieces from an on-going black and white photography project with high school students will travel first to the Loussac Library and then to the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage, from February through August 2005. Frankenstein, the Artistic Director of the Eyes on the Wall project and a student will travel to Anchorage in April to present and talk about the work. The images include writings and drawings from the Elders and artists as well as written reflections on the process by students. This project made in collaboration with Jetta Budd and the Sitka School District and many others.

Other Views
  • Hanging Out with Ellen Frankenstein
    A Sitka Filmmaker's Documentary, by Chris Bernard
    Alaska Southeaster Magazine
  • Center for Social Media
    Collaborative Strategies for Social Action Filmmakers, by Pat Aufderheide
  • Arts of Hope
    A new totem pole helps an Alaskan village heal, by Ellen Frankenstein Hope magazine May/June 1998 Issue, 14