Media

Ryan creates sound and video works to tell stories, to create immersive sensory experiences, and as design elements for interdisciplinary performance.

Portfolio available upon request.

SOUND WORKS (Click here)

Trailer: When the Salmon Spoke (59 sec)

This 1-minute trailer, produced by Ryan, introduces “When the Salmon Spoke”, a 2020 digital production featuring cinematic imagery, indigenous music and visual art, and captivating life stories from community members of the Stikine River. The project connects coastal Tlingit and Haida communities and inland Tahltan communities of Alaska and British Columbia. To experience the full production of “When the Salmon Spoke” (90 minutes), please see below.

When the Salmon Spoke (1 hr 27 min)

A digital production of community stories, featuring Alaska Native and First Nations storytellers from southeast Alaska and northern British Columbia. Creative director & producer: Ryan Conarro | Video and sound editing by Ryan Conarro, Dan Mesec, and Mike Sakarias

Historical Moment 2 from A/LIVE INSIDE | University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (1 min 11 sec)

A/LIVE INSIDE was a 2020 production of the University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative, featuring work and voices from inside prisons across Colorado. The production included five Historical Moments, created and produced by Ryan Conarro in collaboration with incarcerated collaborators. Each Historical Moment illuminates a time in American carceral history when art and storytelling surfaced as a way for people in prison to hold on to and insist upon their own humanity.

To experience Historical Moments 1, 3, 4, and 5, please scroll to the bottom of this page.

The creators of these Historical Moments include:

Travis Barnes, original music, resident of Denver Reception & Diagnostic Center | Sarah Berry, voice talent, resident of Denver Women's Correctional Facility | Andrew Draper, visual artist, resident of Sterling Correctional Facility | Vernon McKinnie, voice talent, resident of Sterling Correctional Facility | Denise Presson, voice talent, resident of Denver Women's Correctional Facility | Ryan Conarro, writer & producer, DU Prison Arts Initiative Creative Producer

Teaser 1: ALAXSXA | ALASKA (45 sec)

Ryan Conarro created this video teaser for ALAXSXA | ALASKA, the interdisciplinary production about cross-cultural encounter he directed with Ping Chong. This teaser features recorded voices from interviews across the state.

Teaser 2: ALAXSXA | ALASKA (1 min)

Ryan Conarro created this 2nd video teaser for ALAXSXA | ALASKA to highlight the comedic dimensions of this interdisciplinary production about cross-cultural encounter, directed by Ryan with Ping Chong.

Teaser: DevisingHUB @ Ping Chong + Company (1 min 30 sec)

Ryan Conarro created this video teaser for DevisingHub, his 5-week development incubator for performance makers which he conceived and facilitated for Ping Chong + Company in New York, 2015-2018.

Teaser: AAN YATX'U SAANI: NOBLE PEOPLE OF THE LAND (1 min 44 sec)

Ryan Conarro created this video teaser for AAN YÁTX’U SÁANI: NOBLE PEOPLE OF THE LAND, the documentary theatrical production he co-led with Frank Henry Kaash Katasse (Tlingit) in Juneau. For more on that production, please visit the Community & Documentary section of this website.

Bridal Shop Study from "this hour forward" (1 min 25 sec)

“this hour forward” was Ryan Conarro’s immersive performance installation exploring marriage, family, and identity in a time of shifting cultural expectations in the U.S. As part of the creation of the production, Ryan experimented with video tools and vocabularies to explore memory, gender performance, time, and the layers and fragments of identity. For more on “this hour forward,” please visit the Performance Works section of this site.

Only the Lonely, from "this hour forward" (4 min 16 sec)

I Eye, from "this hour forward" (2 min 05 sec)

Breaking the Chain, from "this hour forward" (1 min 59 sec)

Sacred Heart Memory, Atlanta, from "this hour forward" (2 min 48 sec)

Historical Moment 1 from A/LIVE INSIDE | University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (1 min 30 sec)

Historical Moment 3 from A/LIVE INSIDE | University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (1 min 15 sec)

Historical Moment 4 from A/LIVE INSIDE | University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (1 min 06 sec)

Historical Moment 5 from A/LIVE INSIDE | University of Denver Prison Arts Initiative (1 min 11 sec)