Sun King

Structural study of a tree. Light, water and air coax it out of the soil in a manner foregrounding time’s relativity to different forms of life on Earth. Made the day my brother got his fork-lift license.

This live recording was culled from seven September 1992 concerts given in Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfurt by the Ensemble Modern, a Frankfurt-based chamber orchestra that performs only contemporary music. Composed and conducted by Frank Zappa.

In Flesh Flows we see a balance of Beckett’s keen drawing ability, in the probing erotic forms, and his technical acuity, which transforms the carnal images into a compelling, transcendent experience. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with iotaCenter and National Film Preservation Foundation in 2007.

In the Achromatic World, forgotten desires, ambitions, and dreams from our own reality take shape and walk the earth. It is a realm without color, composed solely of light and shadow, where fractured figures inhabit ruined stone temples flooded with sunlight. Within one of these temples lives Torre, a female presence akin to a dark virgin cast in bronze. She yearns for materials with which to complete her colorless paintings. Her apprentice, Ave, offers to journey to the river in search of them, now that the rain has ceased. Thus, Ave sets out on the pilgrimage.

listen, you get what it says on the tin.

Hand processed expired Kodak 7291, Camera: Beaulieu R16, Lens: Angenieux 12-120mm with +3 Diopter, Polarising filter for the clouds. Hand processed in C-41 chem using a Lomo UPB-1A tank. Still haven't mastered removal of the rem-jet anti-halation layer (thats all the white 'static' on the film). The film expired about 40 years ago.

Watch out Earth.

A young man has an anxiety attack and in an attempt to feel something, he skips through Kanye West's 2018 release, ye, until he lands on Ghost Town.

Seven actors are brought to an isolated house where they must stay in character for three days under constant surveillance.

A closeup examination of a tree in the morning light.

Neyasno

Folia is a double bass solo piece written in 1995 by Finnish composer Kaija Saarihao. The film tries to render an account of a personnal vision of the piece through the interpretation of a double bass player and the view of the two filmmakers. 16mm print with optical sound.

Succeeding in entering the past, a young man meets his favorite actress whom he adulates with passion. His identifying urges emerge, and the desire of replacement prevails : he makes his idol live forever.

In Pictures for Charis, American photographer Kelli Connell reconsiders the relationship between writer Charis (pronounced CARE-iss) Wilson and photographer Edward Weston through a close examination of Wilson’s prose and Weston’s iconic photographs of the Western landscape and the female nude. Connell weaves together the stories of Wilson and Weston with that of her own relationship with her partner at the time, Betsy Odom, enriching our understanding of the couple from her contemporary queer and feminist perspective. Using Weston and Wilson publications as a guide, Connell and Odom created portrait and landscape photographs at sites where Wilson and Weston lived, made art, and spent time together. - Cleveland Museum of Art

Kelli Connell spent a decade investigating and editing Edward Weston's photographs, Chris Wilson's writings, and her own photographs and writings to create the exhibition: Kelli Connell: Pictures for Charis and its accompanying book. - Cleveland Museum of Art

Six sequences about Fascism and its segments throughout history.

Essai 2095

A film motivated by nothing (but daily life and (my) vision). It represents nothing, it signifies nothing. There’s no hidden meaning, no defined subject, no predetermined objective. Inside and outside. Just angles, textures and flashes of color. A whole different empire of vision, impossible to be put into words. “Nothing” as anything outside common visual knowledge, anything that defies the logic of naming the world; a possibility for a new way of thinking; of dealing with our visual world.

Discard short

visual album, mixed digital media, archival footage, and ghosts