Ilima Considine- Filmmaker, Composer, AND LYRICIST

Ilima Considine- Filmmaker, Composer, AND LYRICISTIlima Considine- Filmmaker, Composer, AND LYRICISTIlima Considine- Filmmaker, Composer, AND LYRICIST

Ilima Considine- Filmmaker, Composer, AND LYRICIST

Ilima Considine- Filmmaker, Composer, AND LYRICISTIlima Considine- Filmmaker, Composer, AND LYRICISTIlima Considine- Filmmaker, Composer, AND LYRICIST
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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.

BTS Drug Holiday

BTS In My Head music video for The Sexbots

as designed by Junko Suzuki

as designed by Junko Suzuki

BTS In My Head music video for The Sexbots

as designed by Junko Suzuki

BTS In My Head music video for The Sexbots

BTS In My Head music video for The Sexbots

BTS In My Head music video for The Sexbots

BTS In My Head music video for The Sexbots

BTS In My Head music video for The Sexbots

BTS In My Head music video for The Sexbots

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Selected Projects

Film

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

Awards

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

Discography

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

Neoclassical

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)

Playwriting

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

  • Completed Features
  • Music Videos
  • Music
  • Opera
  • About
  • Contact

Ilima Considine- Filmmaker, COMPOSER, AND LYRICIST

Portland, OREGON

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