REVOLVER MAGIC WAND
24 mins | 2025 | Video, HD | 5.1 | DCP
A prostitute named Haunted is troubled by the murder of her girlfriend. Though physically alive, she drifts through life like a ghost, trapped in a fragmented, and dreamlike world. As she wanders through a city filled with violence and strange symbols, she feels disconnected from everything around her. Meanwhile, her client John, growing increasingly paranoid he is being watched, digs himself deep into a hole in his backyard.
Starring Kate Williams and Eamonn Farrell.
LIFE FORCE
15 mins | 2023 | Video, HD | Stereo | DCP
Moments before the bulldozing of an urban forest, a cast of isolated characters navigate crumbling city landscapes while attempting communication via glitching walkie talkies.
Non-traditional, alchemical methods of filmmaking weave together this hyper-real, bio-political fiction. The result is an apocalyptic articulation of sexuality and nature as it exists in a post-industrial U.S. city landscape—i.e. the idea of “life force” as intrinsically queer, in decay, dead, and situated within multiple trajectories of power and matter. Though the repercussion of these trajectories is separation, a relentless reaching toward each other and toward life persists.
Starring AJ Box, Rat Porridge, and Clare Kinkaid.
DISTANCE DISCRETE
12 mins | 2023 | Video, HD | Stereo | DCP
After washing ashore on the banks of the Delaware River in Philadelphia, a lonely figure plays with trash, and composes letters to a lover back home.
A video exploring post-apocalyptic queer-ecology subject-hood and relation via site specific play pretend.
Starring Mir.
LOST PALACE
28 mins | 2022 | Video, SD | Stereo | DCP
Two placeless people stumble upon an abandoned resort hotel and decide to make a home there. Conceived, written, and shot within a two week period, Lost Palace is an abstract narrative film about building something out of nothing, and the urgency of dreaming together.
Starring Cal Fish and Kate Williams.
Camera Assistance: Boothe Carlson.
Support provided by the Film/Video Studio at the Wexner Center for the Arts.
QUESTION EVERYTHING BITCH
28 mins | 2021 | Video, SD | Stereo | DCP
A hyper-real video project documenting the relationship between the two filmmakers and their environments as they play-pretend fictionalized versions of themselves in a fantastical underground world. After discovering a door to the underworld, Maggot meets Dirt, longtime subterranean resident. Together Maggot and Dirt struggle to decide whether to return to the surface, or to remain in an expansive indoor fantasy where they feel a sense of belonging.
Through a disbanding of traditional cinematic storytelling emerges a fragmented non-linear narrative constructed from scripted scenes, voiceover narration paired with movement sequences, and collaged home footage. Time and location are traversed in a poetic web, spun together via fast cuts, rhythmic editing, and interwoven dialogue composed of real conversations between the filmmakers and cut-ups sourced from books, social media, and internet publications.
Shot in the filmmakers’ home and nearby locations, everyday spaces are enlisted as portals for escape and play. Amongst it all, there is a pulsing sense of clarity arising from muddled confusion, a way of existing being carved out, formed, pushed forward. The jolting result is a repeating plot with shifting outcomes—a film that acts as an imprint of the filmmakers’ specific contexts, as well as a wider examination of art making, gender, sexuality, identity, and an urgent exploration of what it means to be young people imagining a future on the precipice of fascism and ecological collapse.
In collaboration with Rat Porridge.
Completed in residence at Marginal Utility.