Film Format: Digital File

  • On The Department Of Experiential Medicine II

    Initially an anti-gay marriage performance in a veil, speedo and heels reciting the Litanies of Satan, singing a Galasian Amazing Grace and then upending a bottle of champagne into my prelubed anus where the pressure pushed its contents inside. I then evacuate into two glasses and toast with someone from the audience. It then changed into a DIY AIDS-meds Cocktail performance with me dressed as a nurse, juicing beets and pushing vitamin supplements into my anus before taking the champagne. I then evacuate it into glasses with the beet juice and toast the audience with these cocktails.

  • premièrement comme tragédie

    With a friend we play a game, negotiating sex and risk but providing only evasive deflection and questions. My friend and I negotiate with each other, I to him in French and him to me in English. We fuck. The scene plays again, simultaneously but we play the role of the other person. Him to me in French and me to him in English. We switch roles. The negotiation scene and subsequent sex act are transcribed and we learn each other’s part and switch roles. The two tapes are then layered onto each other so both scenes play out simultaneously.…

  • These Conversations But With People We’re Hot For

    Documentation of/commentary on endurance performance in a self-made public glory hole outside Buddies in Bad Times theater.

  • whirlwind romance

    Trying to workshop a modernist camera set-up experiment while being distracted by my assistant.

  • Cross Examination

    A short film by Lori Hiris about the Clarence A. Thomas-Anita F. Hill hearings. The camera remains fixed on the eyes of a black woman who occasionally sheds tears while portions of testimony from the hearings are heard. A statement about feminism and race accompanies the closing titles.

  • Killarney, August 11th, 2018, Scattered Showers

    “Killarney, August 11th, 2018, Scattered Showers” is a slow-moving painting depicting the passage of time in a timeless place through twelve split-screens, each corresponding to a different time of the day.

  • Beaver Lake, August 25th, 2018, Ciel Variable

    “Beaver Lake, August 25th, 2018, Ciel Variable” reimagines the length of a day in three screens, corresponding to Morning, Afternoon and Night, that are slowly revealed through zoom outs that travel from abstraction and slow motion to an ever-faster, ever-more-complicated panorama unveiling all the hours of a day.

  • How To Stop Watching a Video That Never Ends

    An abstract inquiry into the subconsciousness of an individual overloaded with the endless amount of options, possibilities and opinions of the world of digital media. Three linearly connected monologues are imitating a timeline as we know it from social media, posing a question about the possibilities of deep contemplation in the time of instant answers and ubiquitous power play of server-made content.

  • Queer Camp Trilogy

    The Queer Camp Trilogy is a series of experimental films exploring the hidden dimensions of queer Japanese American wartime history. This trilogy, made up of Looking For Jiro (2011), Warning Shot (2016), and On the Line (2018), was inspired by first-generation Japanese Americans who were incarcerated by the US government during World War II. These subjects left subtle yet discernible traces of same-sex intimacy or gender nonconformity in the archive, despite the enormous pressure put upon Japanese Americans to accept their imprisonment quietly, prove their patriotic loyalty, and smile for Ansel Adams during their unlawful imprisonment. I approached their enigmatic…

  • How Long?

    A strange series of events have propelled the world into an uncertain, looming future. A young woman wakes to find her partner pacing in the rain, wracked with anxiety over an unidentified yet seemingly inevitable disaster. She tries to comfort her partner amid her own escalating fear — and a cataclysmic change may be closer than either of them had imagined.