WHAT
Personal Histories
These works look back to our shared cultural history: cinematic, theatrical, and psychological - through a subjective prism pointing outwards to the fullness of lived experience.
The Case of the Vanishing Gods -- NOTFILM -- Between Two Cinemas The Exploding Digital Inevitable -- The Book of Paradise Has No Author The Cropping of the Spectacle
Personal Ethnographies
These works are neither avant garde cinema or traditional ethnography. I report on groups or environments of which I’m already a part. They include portraits and documents, landscapes and stories. They take the form of films, videos, photos, and recordings that tell something about a person or group of people: how they live and how they relate to each other. They’re at once removed and engaged, observing and participating, impersonal and extremely personal.
Secular Magic
Truth and fiction are outdated concepts; their outer polarity masking an inner unity. Contemporary post-Situationist society takes the illusion of social structure as the starting point in its navigation of psychological space. As accepted truths break apart, fictions coalesce into lived experience. Depending who you talk to, secular magic can be virtually anything, but I take it as the creation of a space between truth and fiction where the impossible is experientially encountered in our lives.
past program -- work sample 1 -- work sample 2
Ruin as Metaphor
past program 1 -- past program 2
Phantom Narratives
Tales of non-telling. These works subvert or ignore the boundaries of contemporary narrative, integrating storytelling and visual artworks in different permutations. Each has a deep investment in its story, while simultaneously transforming common notions of narrative form.
work sample 1 -- work sample 2 -- work sample 3