LOVE IS SO EMBARRASSING! reflects on the performative aspects of romantic relationships and how those expectations are informed by the moving image. The video is a portrait of me falling in love and processing my internalized harmful traditions of romantic love.

LOVE IS SO EMBARRASSING!

A humorous and early look at one cisgender/transmale friendship.

Straightboy Lessons

"EW" is a camera-roll film with no edits, shot on 16mm Kodak Tri-X and hand processed. It is a reflection on the construction of nonbinary identity through hair, interwoven with ideas about monstrosity.

ANOTHER YOU (2022) is an experimental visual poem centered around the experience of returning to a defining childhood place as an adult. The video is largely composed of water in varying states. This visual represents how something as constant as a single body of water has variation through time, both in form and perception, just as integral places we have always known do. There is a sense of heartbreak in being unable to recreate the magic that physical spaces held for us as a child, but in that heartbreak there lives something caught between childhood wonder and adult longing; a call for your present self to re-examine just how far from that former “You” you truly are.

Another You

Konstantin is an experimental film shot on high-contrast black and white 16mm film using a single 100ft reel. The film is an in-camera edit with triple exposures, creating a layered and complex visual language. Through this aesthetic, the piece explores themes of queer love and queer ecology. It invites the viewer to enter a unique and poetic world, where the boundaries between the human and natural realms blur and merge. Pushing against human exceptionalism &amp; into a world where there is no ‘natural’ or ‘unnatural.’ Can a walk in the forest, a kiss between lovers, a roll of film, the touch lichen, liberate ourselves from these hierarchies?

Konstantin

Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies explores the nature of how we understand our bodies, the ways in which we “queer” the body, and performative nature of how we explore our identities in mediated space. The work challenges the supremacy of normative human body-to-body contact, by exploring the role that a hybrid human-object-virtual encounter might pose for alternative forms of intimacy and exchange. The use of self-surveillance as a strategy of making and being is critical to our understanding of contemporary bodily experiences in the piece. The lens, the camera, video as both electronic mirror and surveyor, the scanner, generative A.I., and motion capture technology construct the performance of identity—who we are as hybrids and how we exploit our self-awareness and positions.
Through the act of making this work, we aim to disrupt the hegemony of stable bodies in search of what might be greater potential. “Breaking” the intentions of the software and hardware specifications, and revealing the tools of its making, we blast open possibility for new rules and new narratives. The future is undoubtedly queer, and it’s one hell of a party.

Body-oddy-oddy-oddy: Destabilizing the Surveilling of Queer Bodies

In how many worlds has your fear trapped you? This film may not give you an answer, but it’ll show you some of mine.

English

The Voice of Fear (Quando Você Vem Me Visitar)

Sebastian's roommate is away for the weekend...

His Smell

A young man walks into winter, trying to fulfil his most hidden desires: a love encounter with another man, and an encounter with the absolute, and Christian spirituality. GPS Signal Lost tells about his inner journey featuring snowy landscapes of the Jura Mountains, a medieval courtly novel, and a gay dating app on a smartphone.

Signal GPS perdu

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