Film Categories: Abstraction

  • Letters From Eniwetok

    A woman who lives by the beach retrieves objects brought to her by the tide. Selected Screenings: Concrete Dream Film Festival (LA, USA), 2018; Panoramica (CDMX, Mexico), 2018; Haverhill Film Festival (Haverhill MA, USA) 2018; Cinemistica (Granada, Spain), 2018; Berlin Liberi Film Festival (Berlin, Germany), 2018. And upcoming at Big Muddy Film Festival (February 2019 in Carbondale, Illinois, USA) and Fargo Film Festival (March 2019 in Fargo, North Dakota, USA).

  • UUFO

    “UUFO” consists of six short chapters/stories. Each chapter describes a memory. The film deals with conflicting interpretations of China from the 1960s onwards, contrasting past generations’ stories with my own generation’s interpretations. UUFO stands for Universal Unidentified Flying Object.

  • Saint Bathans Repetitions

    A series of cinematic portraits of Jacques Larose shot in domestic spaces in the former gold-mining town of Saint Bathans, New Zealand expand into a tapestry of glistening natural light and vaporous movement, created via a painstaking process of in-camera layering effects. “Shot in a saloon and horse stables in the former gold mining town of St. Bathans, New Zealand, the film drifts between representation and graphic abstraction as these cinematic portraits, which are layered in-camera, multiply the solitary figure through temporal diffraction.” – IMAGES Festival Selected Screenings: International Film Festival Rotterdam (2018), Images Festival (Toronto, ON, 2018), Crossroads Festival…

  • REBIRTH

    “A dance ritual which turns into recreation of the self.” Transformation is a dance ritual. With every move you are born again. With every little step, you cut the umbilical cord. With every turn, you create a new shell.

  • Sira

    ‘Sira’, in Arabic, literally translated, means biography. Arabs are a people known for their oral tradition. Through excavated footage and narration, Sira examines the displacement of a family, beginning with the event that catapulted their exodus from Kuwait as a result of the Iraqi invasion.

  • Blue Cigarette

    When filming smoke, in color, cinematographers must avoid the “blue smoke” phenomenon. “Blue Cigarette” is a direct cinema experience on 16mm film, it takes the same time of a cigarette burning and is filled with cigarette burns. The strip was tortured, scratched, punctured, erased, colored, and animated: an exploration on the volatility of the film medium, as if it was itself a cigarette and one could smoke it all the way.

  • horses in the year of the dog

    Twin portraits, an immediate love between new friends considering motherhood under the roof of a fierce matriarch and Cheru the dog shortly after birthing five pups. A swim, a birth, a love and a loss developed in Hibiscus and Lavender and saturated in deep blues.

  • Bubba

    BUBBA shows the portrait of an old man (the filmmaker’s grandfather), altered in several, increasingly abstracting ways. The first way the man is shown is through composite imaging, and the use of masks while shooting 16mm on a Bolex camera, achieving surreal, distorted, cubist-like impressions of the face. The second effect was achieved by sandwiching the negative print and positive print of the original portraits and printing them using a Model J printer. The third, and final effect was generated by hand processing the negative/positive hybrid, alongside negatives from a previous film. The concluding effect is a feeling of the…

  • Father Knows Father Best

    Utilizing damaged film loops and photograms, “Father Knows Father Best” plays off an old found-footage print of the American situation comedy to highlight a dysfunctional family paradigm. Malcolm Goldstein’s experimental violin soundings exploit the atonal dialogue.

  • everyday star

    Everyday states of being and decay are observed through the infinite scope of the cosmos and the restorative light which emanates from it, driving cinematic and photographic impulses.