Film
In My Artistic Practice...
Experimental Films
Some Recent Experimental Work
Passing Through
Passing Through, was shot in Japan in the early summer of 2011, two months after the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. The repeated images of train travel in what appears to be a simple travelogue format gradually give way to abstraction as the film wrestles with several competing themes—travel tourism, disaster voyeurism, the limits of visual representation, and the power of nature. Passing Through won the Award of Merit at the 2012 University Film and Video Association’s Juried Faculty Competition and has screened at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City as part of the New Filmmakers series, the Athens (Ohio) International Film Festival, the HD-fest in both Portland and New York City, the Arizona International Film Festival, the Mobius Festival in Cambridge, and VideoFest Dallas.
We Lived There
We Lived There recalls the sublime and mundane moments that make up one’s life: where we live and what we do. Using layered voices recalling past events and images of empty domestic spaces the piece is neither nostalgic nor sentimental; instead it simply acknowledges impermanence as an inherent feature of our and the world’s existence. We Lived There was nominated for best experimental film at the HD-fest in Portland and also played at the Boston Underground Film Festival, Arizona International Film Festival and VideoFest Dallas.