Ilima Considine is a queer Asian mom and multi-disciplinary artist based in Portland, OR. In addition to performing under the nom de guerre The Sexbots, she plays violin, cello, and bass and writes neoclassical soundtracks for film and modern dance companies. Her discography includes a dozen genre-bending albums. She has toured internationally and is a multiple alum of Really Spicy Opera's Aria Institute for Composers and Librettists.
Her debut feature film, Waiting for the Kick, was awarded Oregon Fringe Festiva’s 2024 Cinema Honorarium and streamed on Amazon Prime Video. Her work as a filmmaker is characteracterized by lush visuals, custom soundtracks, cross-gender casting, and focuses on genuine portrayals of women and non-binary persons without male gaze or the tropes based on male gaze while exploring issues such as sexual assault, the plasticity of memory, and the normalization of gender variance and gender fluidity.
2025 Drug Holiday (narrative feature), writer, director, composer, editor
Soundtrack recording funded by The Holler Fund/Oregon Music Hall of Fame
Workshop by Tribade Artist Collective
2024 We are Everywhere (documentary feature), co-director, editor
Official Selection- Failed Films, Season 6
Finishing funds grant from The Marais Foundation
2024 Waiting for the Kick (narrative feature), writer, director, composer, editor
Cinema Honorarium- Oregon Fringe Festival
Streamed on Amazon Prime Video, OTT Video, Zvoid, Future Today, and others
Workshop by Magic Circle Opera
2011-2025 director at large for music videos
Selected artists include Bad Habitat, Amy Bleu, Sylvia Hackathorn, and Arsenic of Jabar
2019 Home Sweet Home (short), Filmed by Bike Festival director, editor
2012 Sweet Ride (short), Filmed by Bike Festival writer/director/editor
2011 Crash (short), writer/director/co-editor
Filmed by Bike Festival
2011 Commissioned Video Artist, Electrogals Festival
2025 BendFilm Basecamp, Waitlist
2025 AHCMC x Grow With Google Scholarship Program
2024 Lyricist, DAAD-sponsored international arts exchange for contemporary classical music
2024 Featured performer, Future Prairie Showcase
2024 BendFilm BaseCamp selected participant, declined due to financial reasons
2024 The Holler Fund project grant, for recording the cast album for Drug Holiday
2024 Oregon Fringe Festival, CINEMA honorarium
2024 Arts3C Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR (collaborator)
2023 Arts Education and Access Fund Oversight Committee appointee, City of Portland, OR
2023 Marais Foundation, finishing funds for "We are Everywhere"
2016 MESO IDA and Development for The Gold Room Recording Studio
2013 Career Opportunity Grant, Oregon Arts Commission
2012 Career Development Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2011 Career Development Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council, Portland, OR
2011 Featured filmmaker, Filmed by Bike
2025 Drug Holiday, original cast album
2024 Waiting for the Kick, original cast album
2021 The Mollie Playlist, The Sexbots
2019 I Always Knew You Were a Bitch, The Sexbots
2017 The Berlin Stories/The Book of Daniel, The Sexbots
2016 The Girlfriend Experience, The Sexbots
2015 Berlin, The Sexbots
2014 Trust Games, The Sexbots
2014 Songs for Jamil, The Sexbots
2013 Junk Sick, The Sexbots
2012 Love Hotel, The Sexbots (Produced by PE Strickland)
2011 Don’t Stop, The Sexbots (Charted #32 on CMJ for RPM)
2010 Eee Pee, The Sexbots
2010 Uh Oh Dear, Ilima Considine solo album
2010 English Kills, Padre Pio (Violin and vocals, produced by Joe McGinty)
2009 Previews, Stella Grace
2009 Tiger House, Tiger House (Violin and keyboard)
2008 StumpClub compilation as Childhood Friends
2008 Key Party, Childhood Friends
2007 Failing Records compilation
2007 Synesthesia, Enchanted 4ST, re-released as Childhood Friends
2007 Scars, Childhood Friends
2006 Everything is About to Change, Childhood Friends
2024 Soundtrack for Red’s Walk, Grand Guignol Fest
2023 Soundtrack for Duck Duck Go to Hell, Grand Guignol Fest
2022 Aria Institute as lyricist, Really Spicy Opera
2020 Aria Institute as composer, Really Spicy Opera
2011 Modern dance soundtrack for Keyon Gaskin at 1Festival
2011 Feature film soundtrack for 1158 (dir. Jeff Scott Taylor)
2010 A Dear John Letter to Society for PDX Dance Collective
2010 Soundtrack for Bad Valentine (Ransom Pictures)
2024 Drug Holiday, rock musical
2022 Waiting for the Kick, rock musical
Semi-staged workshop in Portland, OR by Magic Circle Opera
2008 Neighbors, rock musical
Reading by PDX Playwrights, Portland, OR
Ilima Considine- Filmmaker, COMPOSER, AND LYRICIST
Portland, OREGON
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