Dantes Traum von der Hölle

The surreal, experimental story of an unseen serial killer.

A visual and acoustic reflection about perception, deception, truth and the medium of film itself. Between visibility, irritation, structure and dissolution, a space arises for one’s own vision. An experimental film that wants to be experienced.

After concluding the now-legendary public access TV series, The Pain Factory, Michael Nine embarked on a new and more subversive public access endeavor: a collaboration with Scott Arford called Fuck TV. Whereas The Pain Factory predominantly revolved around experimental music performances, Fuck TV was a comprehensive and experiential audio-visual presentation. Aired to a passive and unsuspecting audience on San Francisco’s public access channel from 1997 to 1998, each episode of Fuck TV was dedicated to a specific topic, combining video collage and cut-up techniques set to a harsh electronic soundtrack. The resultant overload of processed imagery and visceral sound was unlike anything presented on television before or since. EPISODES: Yule Bible, Cults, Riots, Animals, Executions, Static, Media, Haterella (edited version), Self Annihilation Live, Electricity.

Psycho (1960) by Alfred Hitchcock and Psycho (1998) by Gus Van Sant collide in a frame-by-frame editing that assaults the eyeballs and assassinates the normative consciousness of the viewer. The footage seems to penetrate us, as though it was a knife or a threatening phantasmagorical entity. The fast succession of single frames and extremely short audio files produce afterimages and aftersounds—entoptic and endaural phenomena—creating a film that does not happen on the screen, but in our brain cells

A woman’s sense of self is destroyed upon seeing her friend succumb in the zombie apocalypse.

The first 12 minutes would later be released as "Fountain of Dreams"

In "Memory of a Mycelium," human prototypes sprout from the building like strands of a fungal network. Inspired by the Chinese mythology of the creator goddess Nüwa, the prototypes initiate a process of emancipation by freeing themselves from the long braids reminiscent of umbilical cords. A never-ending journey of self-liberation begins.

The second essay about still dominant dark aspects of our modern society. It is conceived as a surreal anti-patriarchal thought experiment and raises important questions about gender, power, and social change, prompting us to reflect on how historical patterns of discrimination and oppression might be either repeated or overcome in a reversed gendered world. It challenges the viewer to confront their own assumptions and biases, and to consider the possibilities of a more equitable society.

SOME MEMORIES CAN HAUNT YOU

HALCYON is an experimental look into the things that make people human. What is it that you fear? What do you look forward to? What burdens you? Questions everyone has, but not ones everyone has the courage to reveal to the public.

The image of a man trapped inside a pendulum depicts life as a vertiginous journey.

A room-scale VR creative documentary that uses multi-narrative and volumetric live capture to take the viewer on a journey into the mind of Lisa as she remembers her lost love, Erik. Within an empty void, fragments of past memories appear of their life together.

A short experimental film shot on Super 8, inspired by the music of Richard Wagner.

After an unproductive appointment, the Subject returns home as their bottled up emotions reach a boiling point.

A found footage film about a strange and mysterious movie production.

An experimental animated short film.

An experimental film that combines elements of avant-garde, silent comedy, horror, science fiction and animation.

An obsessive exploration of the three geometric dimensions in hopes of reaching a fourth.

After a mysterious injury at the park, a skater named Shepard begins to experience auditory and visual hallucinations inside of his own home.

An experimental short film.