A split screen video essay exploration of visual and thematic parallels in Julia Ducournau’s Grave (Raw) (2016), and Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy (2018).

A meditation on Hito Steyerl’s essay “In Defense of the Poor Image,” and my childhood in the late 1980’s watching a lot of cable TV.

An exploration of the final 3-minute sequence from Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy (2018), framed by Ana María Ochoa Gautier’s writing on silence: silence as plenitude, silence as a haunting, and silence that signifies death.

Frank (Lenny Abrahamson, 2014) is a film about a band trying to realize their creative ideas; First while writing and recording an album, then while putting it out into the world. I like the film, but also have some issues with it.

This video essay addresses those mixed feelings through two contrasting montage trailers I made for the film.

It takes surprisingly little editing to turn a prescription drug commercial into a dystopian hallucination.

An hommage to Hollis Frampton’s Straits of Magellan (Pan 4)

My earliest existential crisis occurred circa 1986 while playing Pitfall! on the Atari 2600, slowly realizing after hours of play that you pointlessly run across the screen- screen after screen- until the 20:00 timer runs down to zero. Then game over.