Fugitive Refrains
Fugitive Refrains was conceived and produced collaboratively with Butoh-trained dancer/choreographer Erin Ellen Kelly during a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. It was...
View ArticleThree Surrenders
As a McDonald’s on 57th Street and 5th Avenue is being gutted and cleaned out in preparation for a new retail incarnation, a performance by dancer Erin Ellen Kelly is sited and filmed in the charged...
View ArticleSmile, you’re in Sharjah
Smile, you’re in Sharjah was produced in collaboration with choreographer Erin Ellen Kelly for the Sharjah Biennial 9 in 2009. The title comes from this Emirate’s own brand of welcome sign, spelled out...
View ArticleLandscape Studies: New Mexico
Filmed in and around the Galisteo Valley, White Sands Desert, and Route 66 in New Mexico, Landscape Studies: New Mexico is a sort of abstracted pilgrim’s progress through scenes drawn from the region’s...
View ArticleA Brief History of Collapses
A Brief History of Collapses exploits the uncanny architectural similarity between two buildings constructed two centuries and a continent apart – the Museum Fridericianum built by Simon Louis du Ry in...
View ArticleTo Live
To Live was adapted from the novel Bid Me To Live (written 1933-50, published 1960) by the poet Hilda Doolittle, usually known as H.D., and shot in houses occupied by military families on Governors...
View ArticleLike Water From A Stone
Like Water From a Stone was produced during a residency in southwestern Norway (Rogaland, Jaeren, and Suldal) during the summer of 2013. The title, a play on the English idiom ‘like blood from a...
View ArticleThe City & The City
The City & The City (1-channel HD video with stereo sound, RT 28:50, 2015) is a video with a narrative told through voice-over and staged onscreen by choreographed performers, in a series of...
View ArticleWhat we left unfinished (in progress)
What we left unfinished is a long-term research, film, and dialogue project centered around five unfinished Afghan feature films shot, but never edited, between 1978 and 1992: years that encompass the...
View ArticleIndex of the Disappeared (ongoing)
Index of the Disappeared, a collaboration with Chitra Ganesh (ongoing since 2004), is both a physical archive of post-9/11 disappearances and a mobile platform for public dialogue. As an archive, Index...
View ArticleThe Garden of Forked Tongues
Each of the 59 polygons on the wall in The Garden of Forked Tongues represents an endangered language spoken in Queens—languages that are rapidly or slowly disappearing from the world, but which are...
View ArticleWhen the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved
Shot in 2018 at the Shaker Village in Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, the three-channel 4K installation When the Spirits Moved Them, They Moved condenses a day-long performance by dancers from Louisville and...
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