The coyote after-school program
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Endemic
Endemic (video projection 2010), was shot in Berlin incorporating a broad collagistic approach to sound and image. The piece engages in a variety of nods and homages to constructivist film, Bauhaus and De Stijl aesthetics, as well as educational television programs influenced by ideas on abstraction, thus reexamining a modernist legacy via its evolution and mutation through popular culture. Endemicis a pastiche of ideas on modern art and the modern city and their manifolds offshoots and manifestations in cinema, TV, and visual culture at large. Berlin, an astonishingly green city, offers a rich background for looking at the cohabitation of nature and architecture within an urban context.
Watching the wolf man dance the foxtrot
Watching the Wolfman Dance the Foxtrot is a video shot entirely in the Bronx Zoo. The imagery gives little to betray its source, and instead settles into an interim territory between dream life and the sphere of filmmaking, and gazes at the synthesizing of the natural world with structures that are meticulously fabricated. Taking an experience of visiting the zoo that is both highly generic and personal, Wolfman tries to reconcile these conflicting qualities of memory in film, oscillating from the general to the specific while paying homage to a natural world, slowly disappearing.
Olive glove
In Olive Glove (2009) a stage-like territory is pried open within a pristine natural setting that has undergone a dye-job and turned on its head. In a series of acts and vignettes the basic tropes of the very act of representation and the coming together of an image are examined, as well as the misplaced desires for modern objecthood, and a romantic wilderness. Peeling off different elements of the moving image, such as color, sound and movement itself, these images retrace an in-between turf of a barely still image conversing with a barely moving one, while evoking a landscape’s frailty