Ann Arbor Film Festival 2009

Reflected into a visual reinterpretation, the continuous internal and external adjustments that accompany the destruction and reconciliation of essential relationships illuminate a divorced familial infrastructure within.

A reflection on relative movements in manipulated time.

A short autobiographical film about duty and loss, seen in the home movies of a military family. Focusing on fathers and sons, the filmmaker mixes the voices and imagery of three generations, accompanied by the filmmaker's original score, to illuminate the effects of war on veterans and their children.

The mystery of the crystals under closer examination. What is it that makes them possess magic powers as claimed by mystics thorough the ages? By growing crystals directly on film their mystical qualities shine straight to the screen. Unfiltered, only aided by light which gracefully breaks its rays into rich visual textures.

Texts from the 1969 American Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and letters from supporters propel an exploration of political yearning, emancipatory architecture and failed utopias. What does it mean to claim land that has more value as a symbol than as a potential home? And how does that symbol function beyond the boundaries of its geographic limits?

Let's Get Married is a experimental video based on the surrealist writings of Comte de Lautreamont. In this video three people playfully construct and devour faces made out of bread, peanut butter and jelly. The images become chaotic as the audio of bees buzzing and a woman reciting lines that end with "peanut butter and jelly?"

The movement of a performer is made physically sensible by transforming it into abstract imagery and spatial, moving sound. Leaving the performer out of the final result, the movement is experienced from inside - from a zero-point of orientation - instead of observed from an external point of view.

This is the same film footage as edited in the earlier short version of LOOKING FOR MUSHROOMS released in 1968 with a Beatles soundtrack. It is made longer with five frames for each original frame but still remains the same edit (but with a new soundtrack by Terry Riley) and nothing added, nothing lost, always the same, never ending .... Music by Terry Riley: "Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band," 1968 - BMA - Publisher: Ancient Word Music.