In the Land of Strangers

8 min, miniDV. 2021.

Shot during the tense months of November / December 2020, In the Land of Strangers is a cinematic mediation on the distance and dissonance experienced during that time.

An Intersection in Chicago

March 2021

Theorem

Feb 2020.

3 min

Theorem is a visual rendering of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s poem of the same name. Add in some Miles Davis.

In Goya’s Greatest Scenes - 2020 Interpretation

April 2020

A visual take on Laurence Ferlinghetti’s 1956 poem In Goya’s Greatest Scenes (America’s Internal Demise!)

Composed from archival footage, audio excerpts from America’s anti-lockdown protests in Early 2020, and a snippet from Bergman’s '‘The Passion of Anna’ (most slept on Bergman film!)

untitled_America

April 2020.

2 min.

Made for a class at Columbia Chicago. More covid despair venting through experimental work :)

Grasshoppers!

Dec. 2020

A lighthearted critique on the ineffectiveness of early anti-marijuana PSA’s. Made for a 1960’s course at Columbia College Chicago. My professor laughed.

Song:

Keeps Me Satisfied, Yellow Days.

serene stagnation

June 2020

mediating around with my camera, all the while the world was falling apart. This was an attempted breath at fresh air

_thestate_of_things

April 2020

Audio of political bullshit feuding laid under footage from Bela Tarr’s Sátántangó.

No, of course I do not own this footage. Made for a class.