DOCTORED! /// estimated length: 70:00, release date: June 2011
John Richard Brinkley of Milford, Kansas became a household name in the early 1920s for curing impotence by transplanting goat testicles into men’s scrotums. From there, the story only gets more bizarre... VIEW/MORE
THE COMMONERS /// 12:30 2009 /// with Jessica Bardsley
THE COMMONERS is an essay film about Eugene Schieffelin's introduction of European Starlings to America in 1890, and what it means today. VIEW/MORE
SITTIN' ON A MILLION /// 26:00 2008 /// with Annmarie Lanesey
Mame Faye ran a world famous house of prostitution in Troy, New York for almost forty years (c. 1906 to 1941). Everyone past the age of retirement has a story - funny, sordid, unbelievable - about Troy's most famous madam. Sittin' on a Million presents these stories in all their contradictory glory, alongside vintage erotica, reenactments, and street performances. The documentary asks us to consider the role of memory and imagination in creating history, and reminds us about all those ordinary, extraordinary people erased from the official record. WEBSITE
SHE USED TO SEE HIM MOST WEEKENDS /// 4:00 2007
A short story about growing up, a certain love song, and the apocryphal memories of childhood. VIEW/MORE
MEN SEEKING WOMEN /// 4:30 2007
A random survey of personal ads one night on Craigslist opens up performative possibilities for a corporate tool. VIEW/MORE
THE WREN /// 4:00 2007 /// with Jessica Bardsley
A little essay about certain qualities shared by Emily Dickinson and Troglodytes troglodytes (the winter wren). VIEW/MORE
THE ABORTION DIARIES /// 30:00 2005
The Abortion Diaries gives voice to an important but silenced community: women who have had abortions. Over a million American women will have an abortion each year. The Abortion Diaries, directed by 27-year-old Penny Lane, dispels the stigma of abortion by presenting the abortion stories of twelve diverse women. WEBSITE
WE ARE THE LITTLETONS /// 10:00 2004
We Are The Littletons presents a tangled web of found objects, intercepted correspondences, reenactments and total fabrications centered around Eve Littleton, an artist with "movie star good looks" who was mysteriously banished from her postcard-perfect American family. VIEW/MORE
NOBODY LISTENS TO A HYSTERICAL WOMAN /// 1:00 2007 /// with Jesse Stiles
One minute horror film. VIEW/MORE
INDEPENDENT MEDIA IN A TIME OF WAR /// 28:30 2003 /// with Hudson Mohawk Indymedia
Part scathing critique, part call to action, Independent Media In A Time Of War argues that dialogue is vital to a healthy democracy. Narrator Amy Goodman criticizes the refusal to report civilian war casualties during the 2003 Iraq invasion and the new phenomenon of "embedded reporters" as examples of a pro-military bias in the corporate U.S. media. VIEW/MORE
SIX COMMON OCCURRENCES, ILLUSTRATED /// 3:30 2007
Six common occurrences, illustrated by the inner life of particle noise. VIEW/MORE
KITSCH IS A BEAUTIFUL LIE /// 1:48 2004
A spinning Day of the Dead diorama emerges in my imagination in the midst of a pro-choice rally. I listen to pro-choicers and pro-lifers scream at each other, chant slogans, and try to drown one another out. VIEW/MORE
FAMOUS LUNCH 03.28.05 9PM /// 2:10
2005 /// with Thom Stylinski
Tape one of an imaginative surveillance series I may one day finish. VIEW/MORE
THE WAITING ROOM /// 7:00 2003
The Waiting Room is an experimental performance video about motherhood. Set entirely in a metaphorical room with pink walls and a red floor, moments of reproductive choice are ritualistically enacted. I am sort of embarrassed by this video and should probably remove it from my website but some perverse sense of honesty prevents me from doing so. VIEW/MORE
SOMETIMES I GET LOST /// 1:07 2005
Is this what "lossy" means? This is what happens when you spend all your time in front of a fucking computer. VIEW/MORE
CONNECT /// 1:00 2002
Fragments of a smile, a glance, and a spoken word repeat and degenerate to the sound of an empty signal feeding back. A little thing about intersubjective experience and video compression.VIEW/MORE