Naturecultures: natural + artificial
Based on a photograph and enhanced through AI.
Based on a photograph, enhanced through AI.
Two photographs, blended and distorted through AI.
Materiality
Material Film Studies: Soaking
A collection of experiments soaking pieces of 35mm from a feature film in different liquids. Here, water from marina dissolved the emulsion within a few days…
Material Film Studies: Color
When soaked in bleach, the emulsion of processed 35mm washes off in layers of color: cyan, yellow and magenta, each momentarily vivid before dissolving.
Material Film Studies: Desert
This footage was left in the desert sun of Joshua Tree for several weeks, and while the emulsion dried, it did not flake off of the base.
Botanical Studies
Glitched
Playing with the time it takes to create an image, these projects map spatial movements temporally. Or, they glitch….
Flower Film
This is a work-in-slow-progress, featuring bits of flowers and leaves gathered on walks around the neighborhood.
Posthuman Plants
Reading plant theory and the argument that most biopolitical theory forgets about plants because they still tend to center notions of the individual rather than the mesh. What is it to think with plants?
Films
Water.
Part of the larger Affective Ecologies and the Cinematic Sensorium project, this short film studies the impact of different liquids from the environment on found footage.
Earth.
Continuing the Affective Ecologies and the Cinematic Sensorium project, this short film was made from film footage buried near pumpjacks in Culver City.
Under Water.
This short film was shot off the coast of Maine on the island of Islesboro and captures some of the impact of environmental damage on aspects of everyday life.
Collages
Embodied
The body, of course.
Grammars
Grammar books form the source for this series of collage experiments.
Women in Film
Collage as film study, here with images woven into text to think about reading and looking together.