A 52-week film cycle shot with a vintage 35mm hand-cranked camera and processed entirely by hand. The project is a survey of essential human rituals that have not changed in thousands of years and the contemporary landscapes against which these rituals continue to be carried out. Loosely structured around the milestones reached during the first year of a child’s life, it is an examination of the human condition though the lens of 19th-century technology.
Filter Films
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A somber parade shot on laboratory printing stock not intended to be used in a camera. All of the superimpositions were made in-camera and the roll was processed by hand in a very active developer. note: the presentation print is the unedited camera original
Remembrance Day Parade
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A “Bride Monster” is loose in the gay community; can Betty and Stella’s 25-year relationship survive? When Betty falls under the Bride Monster ‘s bedazzling spell, Stella watches in horror as her long-time companion is transformed into the kind of woman that only Rock Hudson (or Godzilla) could love. Attack of the Bride Monster blends live-action and animation in a highly stylized homage to the romantic comedies and monster movies of the 1950s. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the rise and fall of same sex marriage, Attack of the Bride Monster challenges all lovers to pop this question: “Just because we can get married, do we really have to?”
Attack of the Bride Monster
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An ordinary dog effortlessly contains the most admirable human traits, much to the sorrow of one pathetic little man.
close & low
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A stuffed pig, a pregnant woman, and a polar bear are among the unlikely cast of FLOW, a playful and surreal video shot entirely underwater. Unfolding within a concrete triptych the players alternately drift and hurry, locked in a dance of beginnings and endings.
FLOW
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“Making Pictures” is an experimental film that follows a fine art photographer being photographed by a documentary crew as he travels through China “making pictures” of massive industrial projects. The film contrasts the photographer and the laborers ‘at work’ and brings up complex questions about making art in that context. The film was photographed as a home movie on black and white super-8, hand-processed and blown up to 35mm for release. All of the lab work was done by the filmmaker including the optical printing and print processing. The texture of the film is as impressionist as the photographers’ work is hyper-real and emphasizes the humanity and beauty of the individuals existing in China’s seemingly unsustainable industrial explosion.
Making Pictures
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A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To The Funeral: a story about life, love, death, and making the most of the time you have in the land of the living. Kevin is a spiritually challenged employee at a firm of undertakers who unwillingly gets the chance to change his life after something …strange, happens on the way to the funeral. While transporting a body for burial in his hearse, Kevin finds himself seduced by a leggy blonde for some heavy petting in a secluded wood on route. But as he abandons his vehicle and follows the mysterious woman into the trees, the hearse rolls back towards a nearby lake and ejects the coffin out into the waters. This is only just the beginning of Kevin’s problems – and salvation. With only an hour before the funeral he desperately struggles to retrieve the coffin and at the same time discovers the enigmatic woman is not quite what she seems – in more ways than one.
Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Funeral, A
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“Paper, Scissors, Rock” is the story of an unhappily married Korean woman who finds salvation in punk music after a breakdown.
Paper, Scissors, Rock
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In an awkward attempt to meet the ideal western standards of beauty, Julie, a 16-year-old Korean-Canadian, obsesses about double eyelid surgery. Her tomboy sister Jean is fascinated yet repulsed by her older sister’s serious body-image issues. Neither of them can come to any entirely comfortable sort of compromise on the right way to love each other, or themselves. Selected screenings: International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany; Visual Communications, LA, California; Giffoni Film Festival, Salerno, Italy.
Wide-Eyed
