Video essay about the “Match King,” Swedish industrialist, financier, and pacifist Ivar Kreuger (1880-1932). The project is both a prehistory of neoliberalism, and an allegory about socio-economic relations and desire in the wake of global capitalist expansion and excess. In collaboration with Benjamin Gerdes.
"An Interview with Benj Gerdes and Jennifer Hayashida" (The Brooklyn Rail)
“On Work: A Selection of Shorts” National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C. 2011)
Featured Filmmaker (with Benj Gerdes), “Work” 52nd Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar (Hamilton, NY 2011)
“Flaherty NYC Presents the Films of Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida” Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY 2009-2010)
“Never Very Far Apart” RedCat Gallery (Los Angeles, CA 2010)
The Images Festival (Toronto, Canada 2010)
“Risk” Luleå Biennial (Luleå, Sweden 2009)
Artillerie Gallerie (Berlin, Germany 2009)
“Benj Gerdes & Jennifer Hayashida” Filmklubben (Stockholm, Sweden 2009)
“Fiction/Friction,” Kran Film Collective (Brussels, Belgium 2009)
16beaver (New York, NY 2009)