Kahn has made two feature films and multiple shorts and animations, including:
2020 No Go Backs (33 min short, 16mm transferred to 2K)
2011-2017 Stand in the Stream (60 min feature, HD video)
2014 Don’t Go Back to Sleep (74 min feature, HD video)
2012 Happy Song for You (5 min short, HD video)
2010 It’s Cool, I’m Good (35 min short, SD video)
Early work
From 1988 to 1999 Kahn made multidisciplinary performance works, both solo and collaborative, in San Francisco, New York, and touring nationally and internationally.[2]
Collaborations with Harry Dodge
In the early 1990s, Kahn met Harry Dodge, a video artist. The two began collaborating in the late 1990's on performance and on the film By Hook or By Crook and continued making short videos until 2008, co-writing, directing and editing. Kahn improvised most of the language in the videos while Dodge often operated the camera.[3]
Their comedic videos satirize the awkwardness of artmaking, video, and gender. Beyond their humor, Kahn and Dodge's videos touch upon the darker seriousness of trauma, privilege, and politics.[4]
Among several other museums and events, Kahn and Dodge's work has been shown in numerous venues nationally and internationally, including:[5]
Rosenthal, Tracy Jeanne. Stanya Kahn. Art in America (1939), 2015, Vol.103 (6), p. 130
Greg, A. E. (2010). Artistic intervention in the Los Angeles urban geography: The art practices of Charles Long, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn. ProQuest Dissertation Publishing.
Jennings, G. (Ed.). (2015). Abstract Video: The Moving Image in Contemporary Art (1st ed.). University of California Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1963294
