Genres: experimental

  • Graphic

    Handpainted, optically printed film. Guitar pedal loops.

  • Outsourcing

    I made a microphone. I asked for a friend’s help to shoot. I asked for a friend to provide a condom. I asked for a film lab that would process the film for me. (the lab tends to ruin my films) I wrap the microphone in the condom, tell my friend to start shooting, and try to swallow what I’ve made.

  • Videos with Mom

    “Breast” (3:25 min.) “Follow” (5:46 min.) “Haircut” (2:46 min.) “Passing” (8:12 min.) Originally I’d been working on a larger project dealing with the exploration of subjective self through intimate relationships: my mother and two ex-girlfriends. My mother was willing to cooperate. We shot “experiments”, “tests”, and “games” throughout the fall, winter, and spring semesters. I screened the footage and it played well. The absent ex-girlfriend sections atrophied. Out they went! I designed rules and scenarios, tested the ones that magnified my relationship with my mother. I did my best to think of each experiment as “What happens if I…” rather…

  • Man That Got Away, The

    A musical documentary that tells the true life story of Trevor’s great-uncle Jimmy in six original songs.

  • CHRISTEENE “Workin’ On Grandma”

    In “Workin’ on Grandma,” the 5th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, burnt memories and “deviled pussy holes” string themselves along the faded lines of CHRISTEENE’s family tree, all tucked in tight under a blanket of Korean karaoke dreams.

  • CHRISTEENE “Bustin’ Brown”

    In “Bustin’ Brown,” the fourth installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, CHRISTEENE confronts the ever-present bastardization of anal sex from mainstream bourgeois heterosexuals by returning “da buh-hole” to its rightful owners.

  • CHRISTEENE “African Mayonnaise”

    In “African Mayonnaise,” the 6th installment of the CHRISTEENE Video Collection, Celebrity gets Fucked.

  • Beauty Must Suffer

    “Beauty Must Suffer” is an homage both to J.K. Huysmans’ novel, “Against The Grain,” and to the personal experience of a weekend spent with Andy Mantegna, a porn star whose rise was just as quick as his descent and subsequent death. The film attempts to approximate the hazy memory of that debaucherous weekend in 1994 among the garish grandeur of an old Victorian flat saturated in baroque décor. The setting’s opulence could not have contrasted more with my larger life context at the time, I was living in a van, with just a backpack full of belongings, including Huysmans’ novel.…

  • Egyptian Series

    A series of meditations of Egyptian hieroglyphs – designations (as I finally saw them) of nurturing godheads. (SB)

  • Kiss

    An experimental reinterpretation of Andy Warhol’s 1963 silent short film of the same name, “Kiss” recontextualizes his protest against the Hays Code’s time restriction of onscreen kissing as an impassioned indictment of laws that prohibit and punish homosexuality in certain countries. Featuring a cast of performers hailing from countries where these laws exist transforming an expression of love and desire into a political protest, “Kiss” artfully challenges and resists the sanctioned condemnation and persecution LGBTQ persons confront. Selected screenings: Sicilia Queer Film Festival (2012); Schwule Filmwoche Freiburg – Freiburg International Gay Film Festival (2012); Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film and…