video art

pulse

Pulse is an abstract, experimental film using geometric shapes set into motion with electronic sounds. Originally, it existed as a longer film called Spin. Pulse screened at ALC videoart festival, International Film Festival Akrobat, XPRMNTL anti-festival, and 19 Festival Transterritorial de Cine Underground.
Spin screened at Cinemaway/Кіномаршрут, Lviv International Short Film Festival Wiz-Art, 35 Girona Film Festival, and 30x30 BERLIN.

the approach

This film uses images gathered by the Cassini probe which explored Saturn and its moons. The journey captured over 450,000 photos that were eventually compiled into a NASA video. My film uses various sections from this video. A soundtrack was created to accentuate the barrage of strange, beautiful, and amazing images from Cassini's perilous trip. It was screend at Esto Es Para Esto, Bizarrya Short Film Festival, Cine@Art Festival, Hallucinea Film Festival, Cisterna Festival - International Short Film Festival (Other Visions Award), Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, TAKT Film Fest, Altered Images, and the Kerala Short Film Festival.

mirror effect

Mirror Effect was made using a snippet of circuit bent video that was altered with a variety of digital effects. It was screened at the Drunken Film Festival, Unseen Festival, New Wave Film Festival, Berlin Illambra Independent Film Festival, Cisterna Film Festival, Kinolikbez, Experimental Superstars, Portland Unknown Film Festival, Shorts@Fringe, and the Tlanchana Fest.

infinite spiral v.1

Infinite Spiral versions 1 & 2 use found footage of a party from the early 1960s. A soundtrack of vocal samples, beats and electronic effects was combined with digital visual effects. It was screened at the Muestra de Video Arte Faenza, Stuff MX Film Festival, The itinerant Cinema of La Bête Rousse, Gstaadfilm Festival - International Short Film Festival for Films by Artists, Kosice International Film Festival, ALC videoart festival, Motion For Pictures, Buskopolis Festival  of Cinematic Oddities, Pune Short Film Festival, and the Darkroom Film Festival.

infinite spiral v.2