Work samples

  • Lisa Revlon - I AM LisaLo

    Excerpts from Lisa Revlon's life.

    Song: La vie en Rose - Lyrics Lisa Revlon, Production & music WYZ, Voices Lisalo, WYZ, Fred Revlon

  • Ghost Ghetto
    Ghost Ghetto

    Film

    “Ghost Ghetto” confronts the vision of black American ghettos with the republican vision of the French "Banlieues", through the character of Lisa Revlon, an activist for the rights of transgender people from the black neighborhoods of Baltimore in the United States. When she goes to France and explores the outskirts of Paris in order to understand the differences with Baltimore, Lisa analyzes her own journey, which led her from drug transport to becoming a writer and an advocate. In this cathartic process, the stereotypical images of the "ghettos" give way to those of a fantastical, imaginary or imagined, ghost ghetto.

    In production (Baltimore & Paris).

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Film in production, 2020-2024

    Writer & director

    Editing Yannig Willmann, Paris

     

    Zone 17 is an area of Baltimore situated at the intersection of Pennsylvania ave and North ave. It is a low income, black area, and a drug free zone.

    During the first locked down in 2020, I started to feel the urge to document with my iPhone the disparity of my neighborhood during both the pandemic of COVID and the pandemic of drugs. During this process, I was stimulated by Parisian longtime collaborator and video artist Fédéric Nauczyciel, whom has lived in my area.

    In the process of filming Zone 17, I started to imagine a movie that breaks down the collective reality of a drug consumed area, and that traces the appearance of specific characters, and in particular that of a young lesbian women named Briana, that kept appearing and kept challenging me during summer 2020.

    Zone 17 is a film as well as a social practice: this project is a long-term on-going project over several years, due to the production process of a movie, thus with a social impact since my own practice as an artist is also a way to give a voice and a safe environment to the community of my neighborhood. As a writer, I get to help people to tell their own stories; in the midst of these interactions, I also bring attention to their needs, be it to be listened to, to be advised or to be supported in their daily life.

    We are now in the process of writing and editing, in order to achieve a 40 minutes film to be sent to national and international film festivals - such as: Maryland film festival, Sundance in Salt Lake City, Tribeca in New York, la Berlinale film fest in Berlin, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin… We plan to organize screenings in Baltimore for the neighborhood and the city in different venues in order to reach out a diverse audience: Pratt library on Penn North, LGBTQ centers in partnership with the University of Maryland and Startrack organization, Safe Haven Baltimore non profit for trans people, Charles Theatre, etc.

     Estimated duration of the movie: 40 minutes.

  • I AM

    I AM

    A statement,

    Lisa Revlon aka Lisalo, 2024

About Garnet

I was born in the Bronx, NY but grew up in Reisterstown, MD. While adjusting to a suburban lifestyle.  Meanwhile, I was living a double life. My famliy relocated to Baltiomore City.  My mother found an activity for me to belong to in hopes of helping me to adjust to the city life. The Travis Winkley Modeling Studio became my second home, it was my outlet into the arts.  Cosmetology is just one area I studied at the Modeling studio.  I attended college for psychology at Baltimore City… more

Zone 17, film (2024)

Film in production, 2020-2024

Writer & director

Editing Yannig Willmann, Paris

 

Zone 17 is an area of Baltimore situated at the intersection of Pennsylvania ave and North ave. It is a low income, black area, and a drug free zone.

During the first locked down in 2020, I started to feel the urge to document with my iPhone the disparity of my neighborhood during both the pandemic of COVID and the pandemic of drugs. During this process, I was stimulated by Parisian longtime collaborator and video artist Fédéric Nauczyciel, whom has lived in my area.

In the process of filming Zone 17, I started to imagine a movie that breaks down the collective reality of a drug consumed area, and that traces the appearance of specific characters, and in particular that of a young lesbian women named Briana, that kept appearing and kept challenging me during summer 2020.

Zone 17 is a film as well as a social practice: this project is a long-term on-going project over several years, due to the production process of a movie, thus with a social impact since my own practice as an artist is also a way to give a voice and a safe environment to the community of my neighborhood. As a writer, I get to help people to tell their own stories; in the midst of these interactions, I also bring attention to their needs, be it to be listened to, to be advised or to be supported in their daily life.

We are now in the process of writing and editing, in order to achieve a 40 minutes film to be sent to national and international film festivals - such as: Maryland film festival, Sundance in Salt Lake City, Tribeca in New York, la Berlinale film fest in Berlin, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin… We plan to organize screenings in Baltimore for the neighborhood and the city in different venues in order to reach out a diverse audience: Pratt library on Penn North, LGBTQ centers in partnership with the University of Maryland and Startrack organization, Safe Haven Baltimore non profit for trans people, Charles Theatre, etc.

 Estimated duration of the movie: 40 minutes.

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Film in production, 2020-2024

    Writer & director

    Editing Yannig Willmann, Paris

     

    Zone 17 is an area of Baltimore situated at the intersection of Pennsylvania ave and North ave. It is a low income, black area, and a drug free zone.

    During the first locked down in 2020, I started to feel the urge to document with my iPhone the disparity of my neighborhood during both the pandemic of COVID and the pandemic of drugs. During this process, I was stimulated by Parisian longtime collaborator and video artist Fédéric Nauczyciel, whom has lived in my area.

    In the process of filming Zone 17, I started to imagine a movie that breaks down the collective reality of a drug consumed area, and that traces the appearance of specific characters, and in particular that of a young lesbian women named Briana, that kept appearing and kept challenging me during summer 2020.

    Zone 17 is a film as well as a social practice: this project is a long-term on-going project over several years, due to the production process of a movie, thus with a social impact since my own practice as an artist is also a way to give a voice and a safe environment to the community of my neighborhood. As a writer, I get to help people to tell their own stories; in the midst of these interactions, I also bring attention to their needs, be it to be listened to, to be advised or to be supported in their daily life.

    We are now in the process of writing and editing, in order to achieve a 40 minutes film to be sent to national and international film festivals - such as: Maryland film festival, Sundance in Salt Lake City, Tribeca in New York, la Berlinale film fest in Berlin, Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin… We plan to organize screenings in Baltimore for the neighborhood and the city in different venues in order to reach out a diverse audience: Pratt library on Penn North, LGBTQ centers in partnership with the University of Maryland and Startrack organization, Safe Haven Baltimore non profit for trans people, Charles Theatre, etc.

     Estimated duration of the movie: 40 minutes.

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Briana, summer 2020

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Zone 17, back alley

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Zone 17, summer 2020

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Zone 17, summer 2020

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Zone 17, summer 2020

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Zone 17, summer 2020

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Briana, summer 2020

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Neighbor, summer 2020

  • Zone 17
    Zone 17

    Briana, summer 2020

Ghost Ghetto

Film

“Ghost Ghetto” confronts the vision of black American ghettos with the republican vision of the French "Banlieues", through the character of Lisa Revlon, an activist for the rights of transgender people from the black neighborhoods of Baltimore in the United States. When she goes to France and explores the outskirts of Paris in order to understand the differences with Baltimore, Lisa analyzes her own journey, which led her from drug transport to becoming a writer and an advocate. In this cathartic process, the stereotypical images of the "ghettos" give way to those of a fantastical, imaginary or imagined, ghost ghetto.

In production (Baltimore & Paris).

  • Ghost Ghetto
    Ghost Ghetto

    Film

    “Ghost Ghetto” confronts the vision of black American ghettos with the republican vision of the French "Banlieues", through the character of Lisa Revlon, an activist for the rights of transgender people from the black neighborhoods of Baltimore in the United States. When she goes to France and explores the outskirts of Paris in order to understand the differences with Baltimore, Lisa analyzes her own journey, which led her from drug transport to becoming a writer and an advocate. In this cathartic process, the stereotypical images of the "ghettos" give way to those of a fantastical, imaginary or imagined, ghost ghetto.

    In production (Baltimore & Paris).

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    Raw footage, extract, shooting in Paris' banlieues, 2019 & 2022

     

I like The hood

Video art

Festival OVNI, Nice (France), 2022

A graphic art film drawn from two public appearances, telling my story : "The Crying Game" meets "The Wire".

 

Between 2014 and 2019, I was interviewed and led by French artist Frédéric Nauczyciel in a journey of becoming a writer and a film maker.

I Like the hood redraws this journey.

 

Shot in:

- Baltimore, 2014 (Pilote)

- Paris, Cité internationale des arts (artist residency), 2018 (Chapter 1)

- Noisiel (metro Paris), Centre d'art de la Ferme du Buisson (art center), 2018 (Chapter 2)

 

I Like the Hood because it is

A place where one does'nt care

where you are from

A place where real love is

A place where they care

A place where i feel accepted

A place with great raw talent

A place with people of

ALL WALKS OF LIFE.

 

  • I LIKE THE HOOD, Pilote, Chapter 1 & Chapter 2

    PASSWORD: hmu

     

    Editing Frédéric Nauczyciel

Etting Street (Concrete Rose), 2023

Script for a Series

 

A small block, just a block

Behind one of Baltimore well known

Hot spot on the west side of Bmore

Penn & North

Open marcket area: when on the block, you almost forget you're just a block over because of the community.

A music studio, friends, neighbors, drama, police, sweet people in need, love and pain, dreams and hopes.

Scenes of true life that you get from those who live on this sweet block,

only to find out what goes on behing some of the doors

on Etting Street.

  • Etting Street (Concrete Rose), Scrit for a TV Show

    Script, 2023

  • Etting Street (Concrete Rose), She Rock It, Song

    Song: She Rock It

    Lyrics, Lisa Revlon

    Music, production, WYZ

     

  • Etting Street (Concrete Rose), Leave, Song

    Song: Leave (Tammy & Craig leave)

    Lyrics, Lisa Revlon

    Music, production, WYZ

  • Etting Street (Concrete Rose), Do you know, Song

    Song: Do you know

    Lyrics, Lisa Revlon

    Music, production, WYZ

  • Etting Street (Concrete Rose), La Vie en Rose, Song

    Song: La vie en Rose

    Lyrics, Lisa Revlon

    Music, production, WYZ

    With the voices of Lisa Revlon, WYZ, Freddou Revlon

By the Bulk, short novel

Short Novel, 2018

A step by step that leadsme to who I am, from the love to the life lessons that one faces.

Taken in all that was learned, Letting Go would be the greatest lesson taught,

probably by default,

by the greatests who were there before me.

 

  • BY THE BULK, Short Novel

    2018