A surrealist animation of the Sarah Lawrence College art building.
Experiment film, puppets are made in ceramics and photographed
An onion talks about their dreams. Final piece at Aardman Academy. Audio from Aardman Archives.
After I had already begun to conduct my first cinematographic experiments in 2015, I shot between 2016 and 2019 (during my time as a student in Rostock) exclusively for this "No Budget Feature-Length Experimental Film", now titled "Transfragmentation", which was originally conceived to last three hours, based on Werner Fritsch's "Faust Sonnengesang" (2011), but now has a running time of approximately two hours. In 2015, I also began my correspondence with the Brussels-based Sound-Artist Unenthüllte, who eventually composed four twenty-minute pieces for this work and has to be regarded as my sole artistic collaborator in this sense. My cinematographic concept was clearly outlined from the beginning: The duration of each shot is exactly 1 minute. Only two elements diverge from this primary premise: The Seventeen Minute Prelude, Created In Post-Production (2020-2022), And The Slow Motion Sequences Involving My Voice-Over, Which Linger In The Heart And At The End Of The Work.
A character lies submerged in erotic dreams in the solitude of a room, while a voyeur entity observes it from a window. Two worlds collide and it is the most perverse that ends up exercising its domain. Here sexuality is a dangerous issue and anyone who gets involved in it will be a victim of the absurd, violent and disturbing.
Looking at yourself not existing: a psychotic journey through the digital caused by the repetitive daily life of confinement.
Black and White Tapes derive from a series of performances Paul McCarthy undertook in his Los Angeles studio from 1970 to 1975. Conceived for the camera and performed alone or with only a few people present, these short performances use video to articulate both monitor and studio space.
When Sam begins to have panic attacks surrounding his work and productivity, he turns to his therapist for help. During their discussion, he rediscovers the issues that he has been struggling with and must decide whether to face them head-on or to walk away.
A young woman in a traditional man’s world discovers unexpected ancestors. A mix of performance video and wryly bemused tale of self-empowerment.
"Port Meadow" is an experimental landscape film. It was shot in the eponymous location––an ancient grazing land located in Oxford, England––during the nationwide lockdown of November 2020. Consisting of various long takes, the film examines the relationship between human life and the natural environment, and meditates on the ability of filmic technology to simultaneously articulate and contribute to the (illusory) stratification that underscores this association.
An entry in an ongoing video and film series. An experiment in exploiting and capturing the movement of reflective materials in infrared lighting. Transmission Lost and Found was shot on VHS-C using a Panasonic PalmSight PV-L657.
A quiet meditation on the mundanity of life.
During the pandemic, Dave McKenzie came upon an object in his studio, located in the basement of his house, that he had bought some time ago. Its purpose was to collect sawdust, although he had never used it. He began trying to fit himself into it, eventually creating and recording loosely improvised movement studies with this object—an accessory to a table saw—and others, including a pane of glass and a piece of Ikea furniture. He has explained, “I was thinking about writing and performing, and why in the year 2020 I felt the need to make a box that I could stick my head into and cry.” In his art, McKenzie is more interested in asking questions than in providing answers. As he has put it: “I am always decidedly asking ‘Why this?’ Lately I am equally interested in asking ‘Why not?’ and moving without having come up with any answer.”
A man is stalked by a creature sent from the afterlife.
A brief noise piece.
A radical series of images from Karl Ring.