Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

This video chronicles The Expeditionists’ live use of Advanced Recording Technology to record a sonic map of the Columbian heartland en route to La Ciudad Dorada. The footage survives as testimony to the impractical capabilities of their electronic gadget equipped with twelve light sensors that triggered erratic sound responses to the diverse topography they wandered through.

A two part experiment illustrating the degree of damage to film material exposed to x-rays, first at an airport security, then at a federal government building checkpoint.

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Seven years of celestial field recordings gathered from the chaos of the cosmos and inscribed onto 16mm film from various locations upon this turning tripod Earth. Natural VLF radio recordings of the magnetosphere in action allow the universe to speak for itself.

A semi-cubist representation of the available flora in Lampang, Thailand and their relationships to the sun.

A series of shots in a California desert landscape that laboriously honor play. Love is felt as a force that remains almost off the frame and determines the arrangement of the figures in the landscape.

A celebratory portrait of a family’s place in the wilderness – living, working, playing on a farm throughout the seasons; free-range animals and children, junk and nature, all within the most sublime landscape.