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COLAB: Revitalizing Jefferson Row
COLAB is the new design laboratory at Syracuse University. During the Fall of 2008, the lab held an intensive 3-day event that gathered undergraduate and graduate students from multiple disciples - design and non-design, to extensively conceptualize new methods of revitalizing the Syracuse urban landscape. This is a short snippet of a collection of interviews [...]
COLAB, “Meat”
One of several (and more to come) shorts for the branding of COLAB, the new design laboratory at Syracuse University.
Captured
Video, 13 min with surround sound
May 2008
Looking at my body of work, I regard Captured, my most recent one-channel video, as a point of change. For the first time, I place myself within the frame of this fifteen-minute film as the one and only character. In doing so, I consciously pluck myself away from the [...]
The Bicycle Camera
Double-8mm film, 14 min
April 2007 - Oct 2007
To examine the communicative nature and intricate balance between realistic portrayal and emotive interpretation of action in space, my work, The Bicycle Camera, borrows the spectator’s preexisting visual impression of the road as viewed from a moving bicycle as a basis for contrast to a manipulated film that [...]
Body Landscapes
HD Video, 12 min
April 2007
Body Landscapes is a satirical abstract narrative film. The prevailing theme – hair as landscapes, ties twelve segments of short films together to form a continuous emotional arc, a journey through landscapes. Using extreme close-up photography of various bodies of hair, dramatic lighting, and special effects that simulate natural phenomena, the [...]
Transpositions
HD Video, 45 min
April 2008
Transpositions is a one-channel video that presents the journey of four people walking through an open field. Each walk is filmed in one continuous hand-held shot to reinforce its spatial and temporal continuity. Instead of implementing a script, each person is given three simple directions that vaguely structure the performance:
1. Your [...]
Ice Apartment
4-Channel Video Projection on Ice Structure
March 2007
In Ice Apartment, the counterbalance between the mundane and the dramatic once again enters my filmic exploration. The installation conveys a situation between four co-inhabitants of a square room. These four figures, three women and one man, are aware of one another’s physical presence, but do not commit themselves [...]
The Water
3-Channel High-definition Video with Surround Sound Environment Installation
May 2008
The Water is a video installation that comprises of three simultaneous video projections onto three surfaces within an unlit, empty room. The central projection occupies the width of the room and faces the other two projections, laid out side by side on the opposite wall. Between these [...]
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Standard Definition Digital Video, Loop
November 2007
Moving along with the history of space, cinema defines itself as anarchitectural practice. It is an art form of the street, an agent in the building of city views. The landscape of the city ends up interacting closely with filmic representations, and to this extent, the streetscape is as much [...]