Kiki Allgeier:
Why use a manual bolex camera and archival footage when creating a modern-day film? In this interview, filmmaker Kiki Allgeier explains how using antiquated filming techniques and “thinking outside the box” helped her explore alternative ways of film editing. It is fascinating to hear her discuss the thought process behind her unique way of weaving images of an old polar bear hunt, with images of a young girl writing a letter to Joe P. Bear, “I liked this idea because not only is that film [of the polar bear] really beautiful, but it has a dream-like aesthetic and I wanted to recreate these dream memories I was having.”

Kiki Allgeier is a filmmaker and performer hailing from San Francisco, California. Since moving to New York Kiki has appeared at The Bleeker Street Culture project in a performance of Maria Irene Fornes’ Fefu and Her Friends. In the world of film Kiki was lucky enough to work alongside Jasmine Dellal on her recently released documentary Gypsy Caravan; When the Road Bends, Producer Ultan Guilfoyle on Sydney Pollack's first documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry, and with Morgan Spurlock’s Production Company on the "What would Jesus Buy?". In Summer 2005 she was awarded a fellowship to join the 51st Flaherty Film Seminar in Claremont, California. This past summer Kiki worked as an assistant to Julika Rudelius on her new film instillation Forever. Her most recent multi-media performance Connect With Me showed in the Fall of 2006 at Central Cinema in Seattle, Washington, The Aurora Picture Show in Houston, Texas, and The Zeitgeist in New Orleans, and the Spring of 2007 at Monkey Town in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.