Videos

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Horizon

2021
Video installation, Fish Island Gallery, CT, 1:54 min. The movement in Horizon is based on motion capture footage, mapped onto 3D-scanned clay sculptures. The video was projected on the beach at Fish Island Gallery, and the reflected/doubled video in the ocean waves became an integral part of the piece.
Added on: August 30, 2022

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Clay

2021
Video, 5:27 min, audio/text: Maria Rapoport. Clay is a video project that touches on themes of surveillance, exposure and voyeurism, and incorporates a piece of short fiction by Maria Rapoport.
Added on: August 30, 2022

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Dyads

2020
Video installation at The Drawing Center, NY, 1:47 min. For Dyads, I recorded motion capture footage of actors performing a series of relationships based on my recurring dreams. One pair’s relationship is clearly antagonistic, but the others have an intimate, and more ambiguous tone. In the video, I explored the tension between the naturalness of the motion capture footage and the stylization of the 3D-modeled figures, which reflect my subjective sense of each character. At the Drawing Center, the piece was projected inside a clay sculpture alongside clay figures.
Added on: August 30, 2022

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Wormhole

2020
Video installation at The Drawing Center, NY, 1:19 min
Added on: August 30, 2022

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Bad Tools

2016
Video installation at Sculpture Center, NY, 2:37 min. Bad Tools draws its theme from Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman — a novel whose protagonist dies in its first chapter and unknowingly spends the rest of the novel in limbo. Seen from the first person and structured as a loop, the video navigates a circuit of rooms and courtyards that seem somehow familiar. While the video’s imagery is fantastic, its movements are extracted from footage shot in SculptureCenter’s basement exhibition space. The movements are then mapped onto photographs of studio constructions, and this process pushes the viewer’s actual experience through the skin of the story unfolding on the screen. 3D models, motion-capture, and a variety of animation techniques form a narrative that explores loss of control, disembodiment, and mortality.
Added on: August 30, 2022

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The Outskirts

2013
Video, 10:34 min, soundtrack: Timo Andres. In The Outskirts, a traveler fixes on a destination: a castle on a distant hill. But his surroundings and relationships are in constant flux, and the castle remains perpetually out of reach. Inspired by Kafka’s The Castle, the piece is an exploration of shifting perceptions, delusions, and the ways in which we invent the world around us.
Added on: August 30, 2022

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Monument

2010
Two channel video, 1:03 min loop. In Monument, a two-channel piece created with in-camera effects, the line between inside and outside gives way as houses unfold into landscapes or float to the horizon.
Added on: August 30, 2022

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Seed

2010
Video, 6:52 min, soundtrack: Timo Andres. In Seed, a man begins losing pieces of himself and takes on the qualities of a tree. This metamorphosis, which has no discernible cause, evokes a sense of helplessness, loss of identity, and the disintegration of emotional bonds. The piece is partly inspired by Japanese folk tales and Nikolai Gogol’s “The Nose.”
Added on: August 30, 2022

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Moth

2009
video, 9:19 mins, soundtrack: Timo Andres. Inspired by Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Man-Moth,” Moth follows three figures drawn to sources of light. One is attracted by lights flickering on water, another by the moon, another by figures illuminated in a window. In each vignette, the laws of the physical world are malleable, ambiguous.
Added on: August 30, 2022

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The Blue Hand

2007
Video, 5:59 min, soundtrack: Saleem Dhamee. In The Blue Hand, characters based on masks I made as a child undergo trials and transformations that, although depicted through crude special effects, invite genuine empathy.
Added on: August 30, 2022