Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

A sampling from a larger project in which the artist created one movie a day over a three month period and posted them online at kinetocast.com. The project draws a connection between the single-viewership of early kinetoscopes and current online video streaming.

Shot in Portland during the ice storm of 2003, this is a music video for the ambient + abstract duo, Unrecognizable Now.

While videotaping a FEMA workshop in a poor Gulfport, MS neighborhood three months after Hurricane Katrina, one of the attendees invited me inside his household. He and his partner wanted to go on record about their feelings – on the hurricane, the war, the state of the world. I spent a few hours there recording them, and this film spun out as a distillation of that meeting.

A summertime abstraction.

What is a conquistador to do when he has nothing left to conquer?

A story inspired by a mischievous doorbell. Mysterious gifts are delivered at opportune moments. Who is creating what?

A State is a dreamlike depiction of anxiety and the struggle to be.

16mm found footage leads us on a journey through a dying man’s last moments.

After a chance hearing of a Steve Winwood song played backwards, a phrase was heard clearly expressing a desire for sausage. Upon examination of other Winwood songs, it was evident that he wanted more food.

An animated music video for Swedish ChipTune producer, Tobiah. A boombox toting hero caught in a modernist invasion, fights back with a positive message.

The story of one woman and what happens after a monster eats her mother. The “letter of the law” and the “law of the letter” wrestle under one sky.

Clouds of fur in the line of fire of the stormy hail stone sun, the sky opens up and passes right over.

What happens when one reads about a potentially serious problem that lurks in the shadows of public attention? This experimental animation illustrates a strange mix of conviction and helplessness.

An afternoon encounter between two lovers plays out in an unusual fashion as issues of power, domination and gender reversal are explored.