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a turn

January 2021, TriQuarterly Magazine
A video-poem on time.

Only Want To See You

December 2020, trailer screened at Vox Populi Holiday Minute-Fest
A 2hr2min compilation version of a YouTube playlist of white guys singing Purple Rain at karaoke.

A 2min2sec trailer also exists.

Watching 'La Chambre'

April 2020, unreleased
A quarantine tribute to Chantal Akerman.

Consolidated and made more efficient in its sequel, Watching Watching La Chambre While Watching Watching La Chambre.

Awl My Suns

May 2018, unreleased
A group of actors struggle with unnatural dialogue as a group of filmmakers struggle with the natural world.

This film began as an experiment in treating the rhyme and rhythm of a found text as a formal constraint for a stream-of-consciousness written piece. Because the source text consisted of a scene from a play, All My Suns by Arthur Miller, the new text was then staged and performed by a group of actors -- who, in turn, were directed to perform according to the intentions of the source text, in a sense pitting them against the new text. Complications arise, and the film becomes something else entirely.

Rain

October 2017, Bottlecap Press
Using footage from a classic Gloria Swanson film, this video-poem explores memory, desire, and mortality.

BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN

March 2016, screened at ERCATX 2016, Desert Daze Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and others
Due to an agreement with the performers, this film is not available online. It depicts the comingling of bodies becoming light, and holds a special significance to me. Not recommended for the epileptic.

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