Intuitive Travel
10 min; super-8 & digital; 2005
Intuitive description of visual surroundings
Portrait of Movement
5 min; 16mm & still images; 2006
POM2 is the first in a series of films that resuscitates disintegrating 16mm footage. Found in the office of a deceased climatologist, the 1.5 hours of film will be segmented into 5-10 minutes and combined with imagery that acknowledges its significance.
In POM2, footage of tornados and the destruction that they cause is combined with swelling profiles of ghostly characters. Insulated with a layer of sound, these images are forced to recollect each other.
Radiowaves
2:44 min; analog; 2006
Radiowaves is a music video made for UV Protection, a Boston-based band. It includes footage of elephants, water, and commercial segues that join two clips or scenes. I’ve always wanted to capture these .10-.50 second TV segues because their purpose is to end a scene and begin another. They're playful transitions and they carry a lot of visual power and have come to play such an important part in the way that television and advertisments are presented.
UV said this about the song, “we originally wrote it thinking about ghosts and haunted houses, how maybe they're just frequencies we can't understand, like radiowaves, they're mysterious and invisible, but we know they exist.” I edited the video while thinking about these creeping unseeables, and used the TV segues to lure and reveal these mysterious invisibles.
Deft Clunky Mechanisms
8.5 min; super-8, analog, digital, & still images; 2006
DCM follows ships, airplanes and roller coasters (among other big bodies) and observes the elegant movements of these massive mechanizations. From start to finish, this film amplifies the graceful transitions that allow these mammoth machines to interact with their surroundings.