julia vbh

Four short films for Anton Barbeau’s “Manbird” album, made in 2020-2021. “An ambitious concept trip about leaving the nest, traveling the world and finding home.”

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Kimberley Rew and Lee Cave-Berry for Issue #4 of Big Stir Magazine, produced by our friends Rex and Christina of Big Stir Records in Burbank. We covered a lot of ground — listening to the radio as kids, […]

Home-built cabaret! We shot this in the living room, transformed with red tablecloths and the contents of everyone’s grandmothers’ closets. A few Berlin scraps for “authentic authenticity.” But Louie the Poodle steals the show!

We filmed this in sweltering-hot Paris, summer 2018, in a blessedly-airconditioned tiny rehearsal room. Then back to Berlin to edit. Vive l’écran vert! Official video from the album “The Loneliness of Clouds” — release date Friday, June 7th 2019 A film by Julia VBH and […]

Our ongoing project-installation CLITERACY! is now international! My collaborator Alicia Decker and I just wrapped up teaching a workshop on the history & practice of craft activism at the Keep It Simple, Make It Fast (KISMIF) Conference in Porto, Portugal. We had a fabulous group of participants […]

One of my favourite gigs — for the past few years I’ve been filming the Western States 100-mile race for the Ultra Trail World Tour, working with videographer Arnaud Cailloux. It’s hard to sum up WS in a few words if you haven’t experienced it […]

New music video premiering today on The Big Takeover! Cats, synths, a tiny television, an obscure homage to a beloved Talk Talk video, and some fancy fun with a greenscreen… we’re pretty pleased with this one. Enjoy!

I recently interviewed filmmaker Zoe Beloff for the FEMEXFILMARCHIVE project, a collaboration between UC Davis and UC Santa Cruz to create a collective archive of interviews with feminist experimental filmmakers. It was an honor and a delight to chat with Zoe about her process, her […]

It’s always a treat to design for vinyl — something about all that space! — and I’m so pleased to see that the LP revival is bringing full-colour 12″ album artwork back with it! Here’s a peek at a couple of projects I’ve been working […]

Back at the beginning of 2017, following *that election,* some friends and I started throwing around ideas for what became this project — how could we turn all *that emotion* into something creative, purposeful, cathartic, beautiful, empowering, fun? So we started up a collective, got […]