TED PASSON lives and works in Philadelphia

Ted Passon is an award-winning film and video maker whose work focuses on the humor, struggles, and revelations involved in merging the world around us with the world that we choose to create. Named an "Up and Coming Young Artist to Watch" by the Philadelphia Weekly, his work has been exhibited in film festivals, galleries, colleges, DIY spaces, and other venues around the US and abroad.

His film Robot Boy has won over six awards from various film festivals and has had several US television broadcasts. It was selected for a limited DVD release from Filmmovement and is currently featured on a DVD compilation of Ted's work released by K-Records in 2005. It was also an in-flight movie on Continental Airlines and in 2006 it completed a national US tour with the Gadabout Film Festival. His video Red Bugs was featured in exhibitions at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, The Museo Tomayo Arte de Contemporaneo in Mexico City, the Sushi Gallery in San Francisco, and the Beacon Institute of Contemporary Art in NY. In 2006 Ted was honored with an invitation to make an original work for the "World Championship of Experimental Cinema” in Portland, Oregon.  Earlier that year his video "Pulling Teeth" was featured in an exhibit at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco with the Space 1026 collective of which he is also a member. Subsequent installations of this ever- changing work have been featured in gallery shows in the US and the UK in 2007.

Ted has also produced and directed music videos for several artists including: Kimya Dawson, Plastic Little, and Sweatheart. He is currently working on a video with artist Andrew Jeffrey Wright for Peggy Honeywell, the music persona of San Francisco based artist Clare Rojas. He is also slated to direct upcoming videos for Tender Forever, The A-Sides, and a new music video for Plastic Little.

His music videos have been featured on several DVD comps and dozens of websites and music video programs. In 2007 his music video for Sweatheart was curated into a program at the 50th Oberhausen Film Festival in Germany. The program is currently touring Europe and is distributed on DVD by GrawBoekler.

Ted has also worked on projects with musical acts such as: Devendra Banhart, the Moldy Peaches, Chuck D, and The Motherfucking Clash. In 2007 he completed a tour of the northwest exhibiting his work alongside video band Maple Rabbit, and in 2005 he created a background video installation for the epic-instrumental-metal group Belegost.

In addition to filmmaking, Ted has curated film screenings for the International Rotterdam Film Festival, The New York Underground Film Festival, the 180 Meridian Cinema in Fiji, the touring UnAmerican Film Festival, the Projet Mobilivre-Bookmobile Project, and for two years was the director of the ten-day “Celluloid Sideshow Film Screening Series” at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

In 2004 he co-founded "Small Change" a monthly film screening series of experimental film and video art, which he curates and produces with video artists David Dunn and Chris Ward.

Ted also lives in and is a co-founder and curator for the Padlock Gallery, an ex-living room gallery space that has featured monthly exhibits from Philadelphia-based artists since 2004. In 2006 Ted curated the “Pen Pals” show, which matched up artists currently inside and outside prison walls to collaborate on “exquisite corpse” style drawings. Ted is currently working on making a book out of the resulting drawings and letters.

Ted lives in Philadelphia and he loves it. He really likes the pretzel factory and all his friends. He is glad to be in a show involving taking pictures, which he also likes to do.

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