About Rahne
Baltimore City
Rahne Alexander is an intermedia artist and writer from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a 2021 graduate of the Intermedia+Digital Arts MFA at UMBC, and a 2021 Baker Artist Prize Awardee. Her works in video, performance, music, and painting have been exhibited across the U.S. and around the world, including the Baltimore Museum of Art, Tephra Institute of Contemporary… more
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New Narrative Video Work
I've recently completed a short film, No Exit 2, which is currently in submission for film festivals. No Exit 2 stars Cricket Arrison, Scott Burke, and Lucia A. Treasure. The screenplay for No Exit 2 was commissioned by Gregg Wilhelm for CityLit's 2014 FreeFall Baltimore program, entitled Geo-Poe: A Literary Geo-caching Adventure.
An other narrative comedy short, Here's To Living Alone, premiered in 2017 as a segment of Exquisite Corpse, the Melissa LaMartina-produced experimental collaborative feature film. Following digital release of the full feature, Here's To Living Alone will be made available to the public via my Vimeo channel. Pending digital release, links to my short will be made available upon request by emailing me at [email protected]
On deck for 2018 are narrative music videos for the Baltimore-based band Quattracenta, and my band Santa Librada. If awarded the Baker Artist prize, funds will go immediately towards supporting these videos, as well as furthering my multimedia memoir project mentioned elsewhere.
An other narrative comedy short, Here's To Living Alone, premiered in 2017 as a segment of Exquisite Corpse, the Melissa LaMartina-produced experimental collaborative feature film. Following digital release of the full feature, Here's To Living Alone will be made available to the public via my Vimeo channel. Pending digital release, links to my short will be made available upon request by emailing me at [email protected]
On deck for 2018 are narrative music videos for the Baltimore-based band Quattracenta, and my band Santa Librada. If awarded the Baker Artist prize, funds will go immediately towards supporting these videos, as well as furthering my multimedia memoir project mentioned elsewhere.
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No Exit 2Scott Burke and Lucia A. Treasure star as Edgar Allan Poe and Dorothy Parker in No Exit 2
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Still from Here's To Living AloneLucia A. Treasure and Gina Denton star in a still from "Here's To Living Alone," premiered in 2017 as a segment of Exquisite Corpse, the Melissa LaMartina-produced experimental collaborative feature film. Following digital release of Exquisite Corpse, "Here's To Living Alone" will be made available to the public. Pending digital release, links to my short will be made available upon request by emailing me at [email protected]
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A banner ad for the premiere of Exquisite Corpse in July 2017A banner ad for the premiere of Exquisite Corpse in July 2017
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NO EXIT 2 Production StillA production still from NO EXIT 2, starring Cricket Arrison and Lucia A. Treasure
New Experimental Video Work
Abjection Sustained (forthcoming)
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In the Raw
In March I released an album of solo guitar and voice songs, 50'♀ In The Raw: Live from the Magpie Cage.
To celebrate, I performed a single album release show with Lady Hatchet & Jeff Waters at Zissimo's
50'♀
50'♀is a popular music experiment by Rahne Alexander, both solo and in collaboration with other artists.
50'♀contributed a recording of "Came So Far For Beauty" to Last Year's Man, a Baltimore tribute to Leonard Cohen, in 2017. This recording, made with pianist/vocalist Christina Reitemeyer, was a featured selection in a City Paper article in the summer of 2017, and performed live for the first time at the Baltimore Transgender Alliance's Trans March of Resilience Banquet in November 2017.
50'♀contributed a recording of "Came So Far For Beauty" to Last Year's Man, a Baltimore tribute to Leonard Cohen, in 2017. This recording, made with pianist/vocalist Christina Reitemeyer, was a featured selection in a City Paper article in the summer of 2017, and performed live for the first time at the Baltimore Transgender Alliance's Trans March of Resilience Banquet in November 2017.
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Last Year's Man: A Baltimore Tribute to Leonard CohenI still love this track, and you can still buy it from Bandcamp and support Planned Parenthood Maryland. In 2017, 50’♀ contributed a track to this Baltimore-does-Leonard-Cohen tribute record. Proceeds benefitted Planned Parenthood of Maryland. My track, "Came So Far For Beauty," was featured in the City Paper's 2017 annual music issue as one of the "50 Song Soundtrack to Life During the Trump Regime" https://lastyearsmantribute.bandcamp.com/ http://www.citypaper.com/news/features/bcpnews-2017-big-music-issue-20170621-htmlstory.html
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50'♀ performing at Joe Squared
Past Projects
Selected Additional Past & Present Music and Performance
While these projects are currently hibernating, every project rekindles from time to time.
MUSIC
Flaming Creatures (rock & roll fun in collaboration with filmmaker Kristen Anchor)
The Degenerettes (an institution of queer feminist rock & roll music in Baltimore since 2005)
Guided By Wire (perhaps the only all-trans Neko Case/Guided by Voices cover band in the world, in collaboration with Jack Pinder of Manners Manners)
COMEDY
Standup comedy (occasional standup sets, pending booking with the 2018 Freeze Peach festival)
Everybody All The Time (live talk show with Fiona Crowley, ran intermittently at Windup Space from 2013-2015)
While these projects are currently hibernating, every project rekindles from time to time.
MUSIC
Flaming Creatures (rock & roll fun in collaboration with filmmaker Kristen Anchor)
The Degenerettes (an institution of queer feminist rock & roll music in Baltimore since 2005)
Guided By Wire (perhaps the only all-trans Neko Case/Guided by Voices cover band in the world, in collaboration with Jack Pinder of Manners Manners)
COMEDY
Standup comedy (occasional standup sets, pending booking with the 2018 Freeze Peach festival)
Everybody All The Time (live talk show with Fiona Crowley, ran intermittently at Windup Space from 2013-2015)
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Guided By Wire, the SupergroupIn September 2017, Guided By Wire became a supergroup for a night, expanding beyond our traditional duo (Rahne Alexander & Jack Pinder) to include pedal steel virtuoso Susan Alcorn, bassist Mickey Dehn, drummer Sharon Santos, and keyboardist Christina Reitemeyer. Photo by Theresa Keil.
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Flaming CreaturesA fun rock & roll cinema revival in collaboration with filmmaker/drummer Kristen Anchor
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The DegenerettesAn institution of queer feminist rock & roll music in Baltimore since 2005
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Everybody All The TimeLive talk show with Fiona Crowley, ran intermittently at Windup Space from 2013-2015 and threatens to resurrect more every passing day
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Standup ComedyAt Lexie Mountain's "Vagina Havers" standup special during the Maryland Film Festival, May 2016 at the Windup Space