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OUR NIXON /// feature doc [in post production]
Forgotten Super 8 home movies filmed by Nixon's closest White House aides offer an intimate and suprising new view of his presidency. OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE
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NUTS! /// feature doc [in production]
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
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THE RULES OF EVIDENCE /// feature doc [in development]
Meta-documentary investigating how courts interpret motion pictures presented as evidence. OFFICIAL FILM WEBSITE
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THE VOYAGERS /// 16:30 2010
A short film about two small spacecraft, an epic journey, taking risks and falling in love. Also Carl Sagan. VIEW/MORE
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HOW TO WRITE AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY /// 4:00 2010
This video will teach you how to write your own autobiography, with examples from the narrator's own life to guide you. VIEW/MORE
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THE COMMONERS /// 12:30 2009 /// collaboration 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
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SITTIN' ON A MILLION /// 26:30 2008 /// collaboration 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. VIEW/MORE
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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 |
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MEN SEEKING WOMEN /// 4:30 2007
A random survey of personal ads one night on Craigslist opens up performative possibilities for a corporate tool.
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THE WREN /// 4:00 2007 /// collaboration with Jessica Bardsley
A little essay about certain qualities shared by Emily Dickinson and Troglodytes troglodytes (the winter wren).
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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 dispels the stigma of abortion by presenting the abortion stories of twelve diverse women.
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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.
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NOBODY LISTENS TO A HYSTERICAL WOMAN /// 1:00 2007 /// with Jesse Stiles
One minute horror film.
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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. VIEW/MORE |
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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.
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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