The Beauties and the Beast

Analog A teenager reflects on his pre-pandemic life before his first day of online class.

El Tenor Mental A hypnagogic ode to the end of the world.

Florida Ghost Memories of my childhood home re-imagined in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

BLUE EDIT A cinematic reflection focused on the quotidian, with unexpected sound/image juxtapositions and bristling space/time vortices made cognizant through editing. The film was begun in a "blue" moment a year ago, returned to during the Covid19 pandemic and lockdown in New York City. It's pace, melancholy, and concentration on the everyday, rather than the grandiose, seem particularly suited to this moment in history. As well it returns again and again to themes of mortality and goodbye. The result is allusive and idiosyncratic, exhibiting cross-national globalism within and through the adjacencies of form and content.

Black Sun "By composing the rhythmic scores of the images of Black Sun I pursued “a beauty of power”, as the poet Pierre-Jean Jouve writes, rather than a beauty of harmony, drawing light sculptures that unfold over time and are engraved in the night of the retina according to optical-luministic scores regulated by the laws of an inner metric..." Arcangelo Mazzoleni, Work diaries, 2003

Bear to the Right "TO GET THE MONEY, YOU GOTTA GET THE BEAR!!!" These are the only instructions given by a major crime boss that send two would-be thugs in Laughlin, Nevada chasing a person in a bear suit through one weird situation after another. It is a comedy of misadventure, mayhem, and monster laughs in pursuit of the loot... only to find out 'Wrong Bear'!!! And that's just the beginning...

Yours Truly, Rose On a mission to expose child predators, two underaged girls strike up a relationship with an older man online.

Dialogue for Two Players "The tellingly titled Dialogue for Two Players, also 1984, moves into quasi-dramatic space, in which the seemingly spontaneous relationships, are revealed not just as a construct but also as a complex puzzle. It implicitly comments on and critiques the 'confessional' modes of video and its illusion of real presence. It thus rejects that was at the time a dominant style in artist's video, turning on its head the simpler versions of the slogan that 'the personal is political'. At the same time it is a political work in a different sense, questioning the popular TV format of the in-depth personal interview which it ironizes. As such, and with Partridge himself playing the part of interviewer/director, it is his most overt 'intervention' into documentary drama even as he subverts it." - Al Rees

Bird of Passage A young Japanese-Canadian businessman, now established in Montréal, recalls the time during World War II when the Japanese-Canadian community of Canada's west coast was uprooted and moved inland. There are some flashbacks to the events he describes, but the film is mainly about his home and family life in Montréal and his successful career as a chemical engineer.

Do Not Talk To Trees A short surrealist drama that follows the story of a young woman who is desperately trying to reconnect with her strange and distant father who talks only to trees.