Jimi Pantalon
wash@washmachineproductions.com
Jimi Pantalon aka “WashMachine” is a native New York artist creating experimental films and video installations for over two decades. By regenerating cultural artifacts and historical events alongside his own dream-inspired scenes, WashMachine art inhabits a world of visual poetry combining handmade collage and video projection creating dynamic socio-political artwork.
Americas’s troubled “Media Diet” is a central theme in the long history of WashMachine art and activism where the negative realities of our hyper-mediated world of profit over people collide with the undeniable transformative potential for media and the creative experience.
As founder and director of WashMachine Productions, Jimi creates short films and music videos, produces immersive art events, and provides expert digital video projection services and consultation.
In 2021 WashMachine was awarded a grant from the New York Foundation of the Arts(NYFA)to stage a large scale outdoor multi-media event with a 70ft wide video projection installation across from McCarren Park in Brooklyn. Hosted by The Weekend Ladies and featuring music by Phil Moffa, Cru Drums, and Leo Coltrane.
WashMachine Productions first feature-length experimental documentary Out In The Wash mixes video journals taken on several cross-country road trips with a group of diverse street performers, each involving the American flag in their artworks. A meditative film reflecting upon conflicts between the personal and the political in post 9/11 America. Out In The Wash was screened at the 2011 Creator’s Project, 2012 Mixed Media Festival and at the International Center of Photography's OCCUPY Exhibit on Governor's Island.
WashMachine was recently commissioned by Canadian artists Jason Zumpano and Jason Mclean to animate a short film entitled What You Are Out Here For, premiering in 2021 in London, Ontario and this year screening at Animfest in Athens, Greece and Traverse Arts Fest in Toulouse, France.
In 2005 Jimi Pantalon was recipient of the Chris Cunningham Award for Excellence in Editing. His short film; BRAIN TRAIN won Best Short Film at Arlene's NYC Picture Show and was screened as part of the 2005 New Filmmakers Program at Anthology Film Archives.