Experimental and non-linear works.

A cross-genre film that darts and skitters. Lizard is wild and Lizard is you. <a href="https://vimeo.com/951554399?share=copy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Watch Sarah's Interview</a>

Lizard Song

Filmed in various locations throughout New Jersey, Garden State explores the diverse landscapes in which wildlife, development, farming, and industry coexist in the most densely packed state in the union. Thematically concerned with utopian/dystopian ideas about modernist ‘progress’, the static camera lens observes New Jersey without judgement in order to allow the viewer to draw connections between the visual poetics of the landscape and the overwhelming legacy of human intervention. Kevin T. Allen’s sound design-- a heightened soundtrack of organically sourced hums and drones -- lures the viewer into a hypnotic and meditative experience while sonically announcing the presence of the human figure in the landscape. Garden State both encourages us to slow down, take a long lingering look at our surroundings, and to find wonder, beauty, ruin, and awe in the most unlikely of places.

Garden State

A three minute experimental film that takes a playful look at a weathered old staircase in one of the great urban spaces in New York City, that is Prospect Park. . Combining choreographed sequences alongside verite snatches of walkers, joggers, bird watchers, children, parents, dogs, dreamers, dancers and more, the film suggests the interconnectedness of urban denizens, who for a moment share s space and time with one another. Tthe inspiration for this theme was the totem pole, an indigenous art form in North America, where animals, and occasionally humans are seen to be so interconnected, they literally transform seamlessly.from one to the other -- from crow to bear to serpent to human. In the video realization of this idea, in a busy historic urban landmark, updates this native cosmology -- allowing a new type of transformational imagining. <a href="https://vimeo.com/951551621?share=copy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Watch Susan's Interview</a>

Brooklyn Totem

"Roberto's Dream" is how I see the world - where surreal and imaginary overwhelms the reality, an illusory fairytale. Believing that something strange exists is enough for it to appear in front of our eyes! And that's how magic happens." - Director Lynn Bianchi

Roberto's Dream

"Just as the body needs nourishment, and not just any, but only the appropriate one, so the psyche needs those images and ideas that correspond to its nature, that is the images aroused by the unconscious. Our imagines are components of our spirit, and if our dream reproduces any representation, it is primarily our representations. All dream creation is subjective, and the dream is a theater in which the dreamer is scene, actor, prompter, director, author, audience and reviewer together. All dream figures have personified traits of the dreamer's personality, and when one observes oneself within, one sees moving images." (Carl Gustav Jung)

the lucid dream of the last poets

This Is How I Felt was filmed in a twenty-four period while the filmmaker was wearing a heart monitor to investigate possible arrhythmias.

This Is How I Felt

Sequences, splitters, fragments. In settings of body and pictureroom in space of representation and poetry is volume scanned and reproduced, expressed and restored. A Collage in hommage to Antonin Artaud. <a href="https://vimeo.com/951554329?share=copy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Watch Claudia's Interview</a>

Inter

"As a creative soul of many years, I’ve always been grateful to have maintained a regular job allowing me in turn to create exactly the type of art my heart spoke without worrying about settling for anything less. But over the years, that everyday grind can wear you out. Sometimes the money is just not enough and the politics that goes into that can make you question morality at its core. My experimental short film Howl was written at a time when I needed to purge many of those emotions. You give your best to a position and hope it’ll be genuinely recognized where it matters. But time and time again, you’re let down by those who are in higher command. It’s a tricky line to walk, but it’s survival." - Martin Del Carpio

Howl

A spell is cast on the dance floor, and it transforms the atmosphere. An experimental combination of elements, made with archival footage from Rio de Janeiro in the 70s and 80s.

SPELL

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