Category Archives: Filmmaking

Ordinary Windows

Art, Dance, Filmmaking, Movies, Music, Performance

 

Ordinary Windows was a collaboration between Ordinary Spaces and Jump-Start Performance Co. The free event happened on Friday, December 7, 2012, with two performances at 8 p.m., and 8:30 p.m. This unique site-specific work was a fashioned by performance artists Andrew Coronado, Sandra Dunn, Dino Foxx and Fabiola Torralba. My video is a little promotional teaser I shot during the Thursday night rehearsal. It gives something of a sense of what the piece was like. I particularly like how the camera takes on such a voyeuristic aspect. And though I have gotten soooo lax about using music I don’t have the rights to for these little ephemeral offerings, I just love how this odd track from Trans Am melds so well a sense of agitation with resigned languor.

Gracie at Woodlawn Lake

Film Festivals, Filmmaking

 

I shot this sequence to be part of a video backdrop to a dance performance. The theme, as I recall, was the innocence of youth. And when I learned that the music would be this Philip Glass track, I thought something bittersweet and in slow motion. So I conscripted my young friend, Gracie. We toured some of the areas around Woodlawn Lake. I love the lens flares and the high contrasted from the setting sun. Sadly, the choreographer decided against using this piece. Too bad. But I love it. An almost perfect depiction of heartbreak and nostalgia.

The Man You’ve Become

Art, Filmmaking, Movies, Music, Performance

 

This is another video I provided for Aaron Richmond-Havel’s peripatetic performance art birthday event at Hampshire College back in 2012. He asked if I could get our friend Pamela Dean-Kenny to lip-sync this somewhat saccharine song as though Pam was a drunken mother at her son’s wedding. Here is a lengthy (and partial) video documentation of Aaron’s  grand event, “Penny’s Big 21: Rites of Passage and Pleasure.”