Film Format: Digital File

  • Film’s Final Curtain

    Celluloid running through a projector has been a window into our lives for over a century. In this digital age, where cheaper and faster is perceived to be better, film is in grave danger. If the death or extreme marginalization of film is upon us, it’s worth mourning.

  • what she would not leave behind.

    Among the very few essential objects brought south from her home, Kumaa’naaq’s ulus manifest an autotopographical dream in her great-granddaughter. One of five components of a larger project entitled Bloodline.

  • where no one knew her name.

    Remnants of a life left behind. One of five components of a larger project, Bloodline.

  • Night Garden

    This personal short film uses a series of telephone conversations with the filmmaker’s mother as she tries to reconcile facing cancer for a fourth time. Low-fi video filmed at night captures her mothers bond to her home, shaping the tension and isolation of living life with a terminal illness. Nocturnal lush garden imagery also evokes private reflection, and in one final moment, proposes a provocative question about time.

  • The Tragic Fall of Valerie Mallory Finkerstein

    What’s more urgent than love? On the day of her best friend’s surprise birthday party, Valerie must publicly confess her love for Ava or lose her forever.

  • ∆ (when the cities burn)

    “Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.” [Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451] [note: in this case, ∆ (opt + j) is defined as it is in chemistry: ∆ = the addition of heat in a reaction and also references the general definition in math & science: ∆ = the change of any changeable quantity]

  • Tracking Sasquatch (field report #2)

    A search for the elusive Sasquatch. The second chapter in an ongoing series. [with text from reported Sasquatch sightings in Colorado]

  • Tracking Sasquatch (field report #3)

    A search for the elusive Sasquatch. The third chapter in an ongoing series. [with text from The Sasquatch Field Research Manual (Enigma Research Group)] More on the Tracking Sasquatch series: http://cbattle.com/tracking-sasquatch-3/

  • ARTIFACT (circa 2006)

    The archaeology of Identity. Consider a world where all human communications are represented by numbers, a digital world. Imagine a future archaeologist finding a DV cassette from hundreds of years ago (a real found object, circa 2006, full length and uncut). Imagine trying to decode this ancient digital object, codecs unknown, obsolete, hardware long lost. Crack the code? Available algorithms scan, databases compare, construct, deconstruct, reconstruct the artifact. 2006, the dawn of self-by-numbers, digitized identity. What human fragments, fugitive narratives, remain? Do we have a future history? What will the algorithms decide? All bookings of this film include a free…

  • the framing of perception

    “I saw the light…” Sun, light, darkness, shadow — from time immemorial all weighted with significance and wonder. What mastery over nature, over others, to grasp the sun, control light itself! Know its speed, its heat, its colour, its radiation, its nature – is this not the power of the gods? Cinema is messaging with light and shadow. Figure and ground. Light, onto which we project significance, now transports our information. Perception shaped by our experiences, our interpretations, our projections, our illusions. Frames of drama and comedy, journalism and documentary, propaganda and advertising, all combined daily and edited, reproduced for…