FILMS / VIDEOS
‘Performed Film Portraits’ are works in which loved ones are the subjects of my films.
I make the portraits in order to archive the relationships at the moment the work is being made. These performed actions cause intimacy between me and the friends/lovers/mentors as I create a situation to happen in front of the camera. These people are not dancers or actors – they are untrained bodies negotiating a performed collaboration with me (the camera operator) in real-time. They are usually shot in one-take, without rehearsal, on analog film, in order to make permanent a relation that is inevitably fluctuating.
.brooklyn burrow, heart like a rabbit, 2015
waking temps, 2014
i miss (being totally fuckin’ in love with) u, 2009/2013
I’m Drinking My Hand (Roughing Up the Lips), 2013
The Ballad is intended to be danced (Lovers forced to separate at sunrise), 2011
Untitled (Summer of Inferno), 2010
You were supposed to be my Savior, 2009
Thank You Sir May I Have Another, 2006
They All Speak Normally Now, 2005
You Coated Me with a Layer of Fat, 2005
Screened at:
Huret & Spector gallery, Boston, USA; Les Laboratoires D’Aubervilliers, Paris, FRANCE;Lovely DAYS Festival, Bol, CROATIA; Languedoc-Roussillon Cinéma, Montpellier, FRANCE; [.BOX] Videoart Project Space, Milano ITALY; PHAKT-Centre Culturel Colombier, Rennes, FRANCE; Christopher Henry Gallery, NYC, USA; MONA: Museum of New Art, Detroit, USA; Nyktalop Mélodie, Poitiers, FRANCE; AKA Potion, Brooklyn, NYC, USA; BRIC Rotunda, Brooklyn, USA; Bose Pacia Gallery, NYC, USA; North East Kingdom, Brooklyn, USA; Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, USA; Martina }{ Johnston Gallery; Berkeley, USA; San Francisco Art Institute, CA; SF Cinemateque, San Francisco, USA; New Langton Arts, San Francisco, USA; Fluctuating Images, Contemporary Media Art, Stuttgart, GERMANY; The Lab Gallery, San Francisco, USA; Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA
