Gargoyle

A shot-for-shot in-camera recreation of an iPhone movie. Filmed over the course of 1 day from sunup to sundown. Constraint: Each individual shot in the iPhone cut (filmed and edited one month prior) was timed and each location mapped. Because the film was edited sequentially in-camera, physical movement through space was required in mimicking the cuts of the digital version - an unfolding of montage in real environments. The iPhone movie was constructed so as to form a map, the 16mm film is the traversing of the points plotted. Periodic shots of empty skies mark the passage of time through color. The film’s digital counterpart has been deleted.

All galaxies appear to be moving away from each other. Over large distances, the further an object moves away from any given vantage point, the more the light waves emanating from it are stretched out before they reach it - resulting in lower and lower frequencies as it continues along its course. Within the spectrum of visible light, red light possesses the lowest frequency, meaning the further into the distance an object strays, the redder it appears from our slice of space and time.

Centered around the post-grad life of young painter Duncan Stinson as he travels from New York to study at Städelschule in Frankfurt, Lebenswirklichkeit’s narrative “progresses through a series of nepotistic gestures in order to collapse the distinction between artistic private life and social positioning.”

A collaboration with computer musician James Emrick

Laser’s hallucinatory investigative report explores Paris’s Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, widely considered the birthplace of modern psychology and neurology. Interviews with doctors, historians, clergy, and dance therapists reveal uncanny connections between the emergence of “hysteria” in 19th-century Paris and recent outbreaks of so-called TikTok tics.

driving down california from san francisco with my dad. super8 400T

iphone movie

From this world to the next

Made in Shanghai 2014

I feel that in many ways images comprise me, in talking to a friend about making a top 10 films list I jested: “this is who I am” - in all honesty a bit of this is true.

A lonely machine finds a sort of love in his advanced android successor. Can he handle loving someone who makes him obsolete?

Dylan Tachick, US, Digital Video, 5 min, Sound, 2017

Super 8. Shot in 2016, Developed in 2018. In-camera edit

Something of a neoclassical rendition of flickering celluloid abstraction, Tachick’s Gradations I-II pushes the in-camera edit to its limit.

A virtual love story set in Vancouver, New York, and the dying world of a massively multiplayer online role playing game.