Since 1982, David Finkelstein and Lake Ivan Performance Group has presented their poetic montages of words, music, and images in performance venues throughout New York, such as Here, Symphony Space, Theater for the New City, PS 122, Dixon Place, and many others.

DAVID FINKELSTEIN is a Guggenheim Fellow in film/video. His video work has been featured in numerous film festivals around the world and has won awards at 28 of them. In 2013, he was an invited artist at the Traverse Vidéo Festival in Toulouse, France. His two feature films premiered at New Filmmakers in New York. He has had solo screenings of his films in Bilbao, London, Porto, New York, Chicago, Portland, Austin, North Carolina, Minnesota, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Columbia Missouri, and San Francisco. His work has been funded by The Fund for Creative Communities, The Field, Movement Research, Meet the Composer, The Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BACA, and other sources.

Filmmaker Antero Alli wrote "The lushness of surreal beauty in this work was easy to fall in love with. The work feels and looks like a masterpiece." Filmmaker Van McElwee writes "No one has ever made films like Finkelstein, and no one ever will. They are striking in their originality and variety. He has created his own genre, and he presents it in a way that no one else could." Filmmaker Mike Kuchar writes "An absolute delight of flamboyant beauty. David's work glitters with a fabulous radiance." Film Panic Journal wrote "Every so often a film would startle us for its originality and personal vision, it would electrify our senses and leave us hungry for more. David Finkelstein's Epistolary Fusillades was one such film."

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