worth being heard 
Gauteng, south africa
2013

In Febuary 2013, Tembisa, Gauteng, South Africa
on the water problems there....
I later learned that Tembisa means, to hope for or to have hope.
All of this material is from one ordinary late afternoon.

Amelia Seymour - directing/shooting/editing/narration
Tony Mathe - interviews
Music by Ochosa/Rico Repotente
female vocals -Eva Meyer-Keller

Why can't you come home?
Us west
2001-03

During the long process of editing of my feature documentary,
FAMILY RECIPES about my large Mormon family and those who had left the faith,
I started to question my role and potential power to manipulate the images as director
and editor. This is a playful experiment/self-mockery with word manipulation and
semi-subconscious secret hopes and dreams.

family recipes
2001-06
and to be continued

See Susie do the can can
San Francisco
1997

SEE SUSIE DO THE CAN CAN was inspired by the feminist cyborgian theories of Donna Haroway. It especially explores the oppressive method of projected victimization using real interviews of San Francisco tourists at the Cliff House observing an antique wooden can can dancer who dances wildly for a quarter, and the counter observations of her human persona, who is played by a young intellectual from the Czech Republic. ENGLISH ORIGINAL version

Tonya Monique/Tony Monaco
San Francisco
1997

TONYA MONIQUE/ TONY MONICO a young singer tells a true story of how she used gender bending to confront sexual harrassment and discrimination in the power structures of the San Francisco Jazz industry. ENGLISH ORIGINAL version
featuring Tonya Monique as herself

(the open jam jazz band here IS NOT the same band as mentioned in the story)