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Another Ending

2008-05-11T11:03:00.005-04:00

Another collaboration, this one with a talented dancer, and set to early Throwing Muses. I'm probably going to go back and add titles and credits later, but I wanted to go ahead and post.

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Free Cookies

2008-01-29T22:41:00.000-05:00

Almost none of the creativity on display in this piece is mine. It's a documentary of an installation piece that was displayed last Spring. The audio is what one actually heard upon entering the structure.

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Written on the Body

2008-01-22T22:35:00.000-05:00

We're more than overdue for an update here, and I have a few things ready to show off. To start with, here's a video I made back in November, in collaboration with a large group of local artists. It documents a party where everyone wrote on each other's bodies.

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The Perfect Human

2007-04-21T02:19:00.000-04:00

Finally, that something new I promised. A remake of Jorgen Leth's "The Perfect Human."

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Something new is in the works

2007-03-30T03:05:00.000-04:00

This is just a quick note to say that I'm still alive and I have stuff in progress. Keep watching; something cool will be up soon.

Two Women

2006-11-30T11:14:00.000-05:00

Finally, something new! Sorry for the delay, I've moved and started a new job and all kinds of crazy shit. But, back on track now.

This piece is dedicated to Robert Altman (and named after one of his films), but it's really not an homage. Although it is an attempt to create a dreamlike tone through the use of half-heard elliptical dialogue, which I probably wouldn't have tried if I wasn't an Altman fan. So in that sense, I guess it is an homage.

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The Universe

2006-09-10T14:17:00.000-04:00

A 7 minute long psychedelic journey through space and time. No, really.

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Dead Girls

2006-08-25T00:15:00.000-04:00

A Kim Addonizio poem illustrated with images from Law and Order: SVU.

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King Kong

2006-08-15T02:57:00.000-04:00

Daniel Johnston wrote a song about King Kong, Tom Waits sang it, and I used footage from the movie it was based on to make a video of it.

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Dream Dance

2006-08-04T22:58:00.000-04:00

Just got back from Alabama, where I recorded footage for a couple of new projects. In the meantime, though, here's a collage film I made back in the winter, which also happens to be the source of this blog's title.

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The Flower

2006-07-25T22:05:00.000-04:00

Appreciating the beauty of flowers, with Speed Levitch and Madman.

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Lana Turner has Collapsed

2006-07-22T00:07:00.000-04:00

Sorry for the longer-than usual delay in updating-- I've been working on some new ideas. In the meantime, though, here's something fun from a few months back.

Whitney reads poetry amid hip hop and scenes from Hollywood's golden age.

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The Girl

2006-07-14T03:08:00.000-04:00

An elliptical music-driven narrative about a dangerous woman and a sad drunken rabbit... who never appear onscreen together.

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The Lustful Eyes of Boris Karloff

2006-07-10T19:48:00.000-04:00

This is the gothest thing I've ever done (since high school, anyway). It's a collage of clips from The Black Cat, set to Rasputina. This was one of my favorite movies when I was about 13, and I just ran across the tape and watched it for the first time in years. The movie barely makes any sense, but some of the visuals are really cool.

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Allen Ginsberg's Howl

2006-07-06T23:08:00.000-04:00

So this is my first attempt at a "real" short film. It stars Matt Harbert and Suzanne Lawrence. There are a couple of little problems, but I'm still really happy with how it came out. It's supposed to be kind of tongue in cheek, but I'm not sure how well that comes across.

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Demons - a Fourth of July moment

2006-07-03T02:50:00.000-04:00

A brief thought about what it means to be an American.
Happy Fourth from me and Nosferatu, too.

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