Film Format: 16mm

  • Dike

    A woman recounts the humorous story of a friend’s attempts to hide an excessive perspiration problem, which parallels her sexual re-orientation. Her bodily fluids are coming out before she does. This is the story of one woman’s struggle with compulsory heterosexuality.

  • Pro Agri

    “Pro Agri” is a record of a tobacco processing plant near Città di Castello in Umbria, central italy. The building was filmed in time-lapse, at a rate of one frame every twelve seconds, from one hour before sunset to one hour afterwards.

  • Sequences and Interruptions

    SEQUENCE XIII (16mm, colour, silent, 2’, 2008) The film is a complete record, in two versions, of a painting by Angela Allen. The cellular structure of the painting is mapped onto the cellular form of the film-strip. INTERRUPTION VII (16mm, colour, silent,14’ 2008) The film is made from a drawing by the artist Angela Allen. I used a combination of single frame shooting combined with in-camera dissolves and other strategies to create the work, which analyses and reconstructs parts of the original drawing. The film’s making processes aim to be in accordance with the generative principles by which the pictures…

  • this is not an anchor, this boat is not an anchor

    Through a dense mist we emerge into a foggy marshland. Slowly and achingly a mysterious landscape is revealed. Foghorns and sharp cuts jolt the meandering sense of place and memory, creating a sense of unease and anxiety within (Images Festival). (Note: First minute is a one-minute still frame.)

  • Behind the Shadows

    Outside the window a storm like no other is taking shape. BEHIND THE SHADOWS documents the imagined moment when the delicate balance between natural and developed worlds began to shift. Looking back upon an event yet to occur, time inside this threatened world is caught in an endless loop. Seeming to have no end, it stutters… repeats… extends. As if caught in a void between dream and reality, characters struggle to reconcile threats from the outside environment Inspired by natural disaster horror movies, BEHIND THE SHADOWS examines how popular media has shaped our understandings of fear. Commissioned by The Images…

  • Full Coffins

    When old Mr. Podrier went missing in Keppel Township in the late-nineteenth century, a search party was organized to investigate. What they found at his house was indeed chilling and disturbing as seen in this short, playfully eerie animation.

  • Dancing to Happiness (Tanz ins Glück)

    Anna is working as a cleaning lady. Every night she cleans Helen’s office. Helen is a high-level broker working in the stock exchange. The two women live in different worlds and normally would never meet each other. However, they happen to have enrolled in the same salsa course. “Lightly written and deftly performed, ‘Dancing to Happiness’ is a pure charmer.” – Sean Bugg, Washington Metro Weekly. Selected Screenings: LesGaiCineMad, 2009 (Madrid, Spain); Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, 2009 (Germany); Inside Out Lesbian & Gay Festival, 2009 (Toronto, ON) Director’s statement In film school I had the wonderful possibility to…

  • Stardust

    While others are quick to declare that film is dead, this film celebrates its dust and scratches, and its magic powers for time and space travel. It is an imaginary plea to preserve our dying celluloid past and to fight the takeover by digital technologies.

  • Diminished

    “A delicately structured non-verbal poem about loss, time and memory…Faded images lap-dissolve against ‘small sounds’ and enigmatic sub-titles like voices from the past. A documentary of the heart.” – Gene Youngblood

  • Son of the Preacher

    Billy, the son of the preacher, secretly falls for a mysterious and pretty new parishioner. Constrained only to be able to look at her during Mass, he slowly lets himself punctuate the ceremonies with bits of his fantasies, giving rise to a succession of eclectic, often romantic, but sometimes naughty thoughts.