[ 1 ]
57 min
Footprints (1992, 6 min, B/W & color, 16mm)
The evolution of cinema as the evolution of modern man. Sound design by Jim Farmer
The Film of Her (1996, 12 min, B/W, 35mm)
Unseen films, and unsung lives: An unrequited celluloid romance is consumated in the vaults of the Library of Congress. And primitive cinema is saved from oblivion. Music by Henryk Gorecki and Bill Frisell
Ghost Trip (2000, 23 min, B/W, 35mm)
A man is shown his car, which he drives until it can be driven no more. Sound design by Michael Montes
The Mesmerist (2003, 16 min, color, 35mm)
A melting revision of James Young’s The Bells (1926) starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff. Music by Bill Frisell
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67 min
Decasia (2002, 67 min, B/W, 35mm)
A symphony of decaying images. Music by Michael Gordon.
[ 3 ]
66 min
Light Is Calling (2004, 8 min, color, 35mm)
A meditation on the nature of random collisions, as seen through the roiling emulsion of an ancient film. Music by Bill Frisell.
Outerborough (2005, 9.5 min, 35mm)
A trolley trip across the Brooklyn Bridge in 1899 becomes a unit for measuring time. Silent.
The Highwater Trilogy (2006, 31 min, 35mm)
Before I Enter / How to Pray / Wat We Build
Ancient newsreel footage of storms, floods and icebergs produce a combination of anxiety and awe when viewed in the wake of recent meteorological disasters and ongoing environmental collapse.
Who By Water (2006, 18 min, DVD)
Ship passengers are depicted staring wordlessly into the camera’s lens. All of their numbers have by now been called. And in staring back at them, we contemplate our own fate. Music by Michael Gordon