No(thing) Staring Back

Rather pointless, rather stilted, fetid; not what we want us going after.

Radical recurrences & rancorous requests raze my daze.

Two men. Friends? Enemies? Lovers? Brothers? One is nothing, success or failure depends on two.

1 minute experimental film.

A psychedelic montage of home movie footage gives way to a silent western story.

A 'reversal' of Jean-Léon Gérôme's 1872 painting Pollice Verso.

As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.

Beyond all human restraint lies one's lugubrious layers of paint.

Return to 'burn' only to find out you're already in that urn.

Shot in the abandoned buildings of Gary, Indiana and the cornfields of Western Illinois, The Twenty-One Lives of Billy the Kid presents a fractured historical narrative without any real protagonist, one in which the titular character goes mostly unseen - Billy the Kid as the always-off-screen assailant, as a ghost’s laugh, as a shadow on the road.

Onward, upward, greener [redder] grasstures.

Hiding inside&out, writhing about, taken out&in.

From a small cabin in the mountains of New York, Nina Breeder and Massimilian Breeder begin a journey across the United States. California is just the initial destination, but just as the edge of the surrounding landscape expands, so does their ultimate destination. A contemplation of nature and time along a raw journey in the American landscape.

Shadows frighten what one oughtn't be gripping (that thing before/hind you).

Locked away but not away; somewhere nearby but unreachable, a periphery so notfaroff it's always in sight.

(Some of us) Still run down the same [mental&emotional] streets we revered/reproached/replaced as children.

Calangros: Um faroeste sobre o terceiro mundo

I really hope this is well-received. I really hope there's some sort of reprieve.

Cooper is given a decision that could help him finally make a difference or get him killed.

Each day after work, Carlos, a language school teacher, frequents the heady surroundings of his local cruising ground. One evening he encounters a teenage boy from his class named Toni, and the two engage in a brief sexual tryst. As the relationship between teacher and student begins to develop, some dark truths emerge about the young man and his mysterious group of friends.