PERIPETEIA II
Extending from Peripeteia I, navigation by light, contrasting the camera’s fixed sight with “in site” movement. A sculpture of glass, mirrors, and film vies with the choreography of the cardinal points: dense shelter, rain, red emulsion. Filmed in the Oregon Coastal forest, June.
DAYLIGHT TEST SECTION
Recurring emergence narrative. The “loaded” image becomes the determinant feature for reading otherwise unemotional footage.
PERIPETEIA I
Exploring the movement of forest and body. A landscape film, composed intuitively and linearly — a digressive attendance contrasting the camera’s fixed sight with in-site movement. Seeking the larger pattern of my digressive attendance. Filmed in the Oregon coastal rain forest, fall. Award SF Art Institute Film Festival First prize, 1979.
SOME EXTERIOR PRESENCE
Structured on the 4-handed nature of film: original footage (outtakes from a television documentary I was directing in the Spring of 1975 in South Bronx and Brownsville boroughs of New York City) manipulated, then, optically printed, then manipulated again. 4x4x4.
GAME
An intimate study of a prostitute and her pimp in the East Village, down and out but with exceptional courage and outstanding verbal play. Comedy mixed with tragedy. Premiered at The Whitney Museum. Screened Women’s Film Festival NY; Tampere Film Festival. Reviewed in the NY Post, NY Times.