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D. Franklin's CV
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D. Franklin (stage name "Manta") is an award-winning videographer, graphic artist, and performance artist with over 20 years' experience in media, including US live nationwide television broadcasts, film, instructional, documentary, and music videos. As a 4th level instructor of Shintaido (a contemporary Japanese movement art), he has taught classes and workshops in the U.S., Japan, China, and Central and Western Europe. His visual art, video art, and performances have been shown at venues near Boston, New York City, and Prague such as Mobius, the deCordova Museum, Midway Gallery, Harvard University Hilles Library, Oni Gallery, Jorge Hernandez Cultural Center, Pan9, the Nuyorican Poets' Café, Pilsen Finale Film Festival, BioOko Cinema, and others.
As a camera operator, producer, and production manager contracted for nationwide live TV, he has had notables such as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Nelson Mandela, Noam Chomsky, and Ted Kennedy in front of his lens. As as DIY zero-budget filmmaker, he collaborated with director Michael Pope and cinematographer Jiří Dvorský as a producer, actor, co-author, musician, foley artist, and kitchen-sink operator in making the experimental film-with-live-music performance Neovoxer.
His work with Michael Pope also includes producing the first two music videos (Girl Anachronism and Coin-Operated Boy) for Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione's band The Dresden Dolls. Franklin was a co-founder and host of the alternative arts venue Pan9 in Boston, where Palmer and Viglione played together in public for the first time, before naming the band The Dresden Dolls.
Formerly a member of Mobius, Boston's center for experimental art in all media, Franklin has often collaborated with another former Mobius member, Czech-America dissident performance artist Milan Kohout. Their work was presented at Boston's Fort Point Theater Festival and at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC as well as other venues. Together with several other Boston-area artists, Kohout and Franklin co-founded ArtSpeech.org, an international organization of artists dedicated to the principle of freedom of expression through creative dialogue, raising awareness, and making art.
Additionally, D. Franklin taught a week-long movement arts and voice workshop on a remote island with soprano and voice educator Anne Harley, co-founded a wellness services company with Vianna Heath, worked as a chef at an Italian restaurant that got held up at gunpoint, was an office manager at a nonprofit medical clinic for people with HIV, shot and edited a video about Romany human rights with activist Ivana Mariposa Čonková that was screened for the UN human rights commission, taught English at the University of West Bohemia, and has translated two books from Czech into English. He speaks English, Czech, and Mandarin Chinese and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Education
Master's degree
Cognition, language, interaction: Digital culture and communication
Université Paris 8, Paris FR
Diploma of Fine Arts
Graphic arts, performance, video
Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston USA
Bachelor's degree (cum laude)
Cultural Antropology
Harvard College, Cambridge USA
Additional non-academic certificates and diplomas:
Shintaido instructor (Japanese art of movement and health exercise) 4th degree
Shintaido Karate instructor 3rd degree
Shintaido Bojutsu (stick fighting) instructor 3rd degree
Certified shiatsu masseur and graduate of Boston Shiatsu School and East-West Institute of Alternative Medicine
As a camera operator, producer, and production manager contracted for nationwide live TV, he has had notables such as Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Nelson Mandela, Noam Chomsky, and Ted Kennedy in front of his lens. As as DIY zero-budget filmmaker, he collaborated with director Michael Pope and cinematographer Jiří Dvorský as a producer, actor, co-author, musician, foley artist, and kitchen-sink operator in making the experimental film-with-live-music performance Neovoxer.
His work with Michael Pope also includes producing the first two music videos (Girl Anachronism and Coin-Operated Boy) for Amanda Palmer and Brian Viglione's band The Dresden Dolls. Franklin was a co-founder and host of the alternative arts venue Pan9 in Boston, where Palmer and Viglione played together in public for the first time, before naming the band The Dresden Dolls.
Formerly a member of Mobius, Boston's center for experimental art in all media, Franklin has often collaborated with another former Mobius member, Czech-America dissident performance artist Milan Kohout. Their work was presented at Boston's Fort Point Theater Festival and at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Washington DC as well as other venues. Together with several other Boston-area artists, Kohout and Franklin co-founded ArtSpeech.org, an international organization of artists dedicated to the principle of freedom of expression through creative dialogue, raising awareness, and making art.
Additionally, D. Franklin taught a week-long movement arts and voice workshop on a remote island with soprano and voice educator Anne Harley, co-founded a wellness services company with Vianna Heath, worked as a chef at an Italian restaurant that got held up at gunpoint, was an office manager at a nonprofit medical clinic for people with HIV, shot and edited a video about Romany human rights with activist Ivana Mariposa Čonková that was screened for the UN human rights commission, taught English at the University of West Bohemia, and has translated two books from Czech into English. He speaks English, Czech, and Mandarin Chinese and is based in Prague, Czech Republic.
Education
Master's degree
Cognition, language, interaction: Digital culture and communication
Université Paris 8, Paris FR
Diploma of Fine Arts
Graphic arts, performance, video
Tufts School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston USA
Bachelor's degree (cum laude)
Cultural Antropology
Harvard College, Cambridge USA
Additional non-academic certificates and diplomas:
Shintaido instructor (Japanese art of movement and health exercise) 4th degree
Shintaido Karate instructor 3rd degree
Shintaido Bojutsu (stick fighting) instructor 3rd degree
Certified shiatsu masseur and graduate of Boston Shiatsu School and East-West Institute of Alternative Medicine
