Life in the Shadows

Investigating autumn, temporal alterations, and their effect on movement

A young man in a tram is asking a bit too much from a stranger.

An elderly lady pushes the limits of customer service at an up-market department store by continuously requesting announcements for interesting-looking men.

The absurd logic of the ‘real character’ and the extreme rules of Disneyland become apparent when a real fan of Snow White is banned from entering the theme park dressed as Snow White.

Broad Sense is based on an three day long intervention in the European Parliament in Brussels. The video reveals the diversity of security responses to the artist’s visits.

The second entry in Velu Viswanadhan's series of experimental documentaries. This film traces the Ganges river upstream.

From Angry Bible Thumpers to Infamous Hall H Lines, This is an Appropriated Video Essay Covering the Negative Changes that San Diego Comic Con Has Gone Through This Passed Decade Alone.

A heartbroken girl is pursued by a domineering female photographer, and her growing infatuation begins to blur the line of reality and fantasy.

"This tape is an exploration of my latent heterosexuality with porn star / performance artist Annie Sprinkle as instructor and sage. After assuaging my fears that I can have sex with a woman & still maintain my gay identity, Annie warms me up with some playful, sensual wrestling. She then instructs in the use of a tampon while relating men's need to make war with their inability to menstruate. For the rest of the tape, she guides me through the specifics of sexual exploration, positions of coital congress as well as post- coital ritual."

They want a great man. They talk about it, about him, about the one they're looking for. And I don't tell them everything you're not, and I drink to stop looking for the man they're looking for.

When taking a microscopic view of a dot of the printer ink, it begins to transform into unstable forms. The other sphere/eyeball which appears when moving away from the dot, suggests the overlay of the swaying of the retina that occurs when staring, and the motion within animation.

Originality in a time of poorly made copies, a filmic inventory of a strange time, a kaleidoscope of images, in a constant game of ruptures and continuities. All this from 365 videos published on an Instagram page in 2018, added to an original soundtrack and a text adapted from Dürrenmatt's play Dialogue of a Vile Man, a text that synthesizes our time well.

Quintessential alternative rockers, Sonic Youth, celebrate free-form experimentalism while reinforcing their performance-art driven tradition in this Soundstage performance, recorded on May 7, 2003 at WTTW Grainger Studio in Chicago. The band, which settles just outside the realm of definition, delivers a part rock, part free-form noise, part avant-garde punk performance which features a new song "Sympathy for the Strawberry."

Some occurrences themselves are forgotten and being got rid of any copyrights. What’s more these occurrences were created and shared by people in a certain place. Although these occurrences are worthless, they are still meaningful for reservation. When the places that something occurred have changed gradually, will occurrences themselves die out soon? As an individual, I may record something.

Future Shocked is an experimental visual film.

A short animated feature which Fred Burns created with 2,000 inked, painted, and photographed images.

"Images and sounds culled from the first few months with my daughter, sometimes resembling that of a family group chat, where pictures and videos are shared; small moments. The film is full of joy, and full of uncertainty, barely holding itself together." A companion piece to 'My Heart is Walking Around Outside of my Body'.

Playful and rythmic self-portrait shot on Super 8mm and 16mm. Colored directly on the super 8mm.

Short animation produced in a 3D animation course using the MAYA software.

"The evaporation or the centralization of the self. Everything is there." —Charles Baudelaire A sensorial approach to landscape In the deep contemplation of landscape the senses are altered. We feel a sublimation experience where the mental image of landscape undergoes a metamorphosis. The actual space is distorted, time flows in a different way: it stops in our consciousness. It is the connection at the "full instant," the idea of "durèe" of Henri Bergson, where the intensity of the experience makes the image of landscape expands.