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the babel cycle.

A short film created ostensibly as a Detroit "City Symphony" shot entirely through reflected images. In the same vein as many traditional City Symphony films, it portrays a feeling of being in Detroit, what it's landscape looks like. Ultimately however, it is a very personal discussion of perception, reality, and communication, in relation to Babel.

mirage.

A fan video created for the Detroit techno label "Underground Resistance". Entirely composed of composited shots and trick photography. "It might be a mirage."

Mirage is (c)2001 Underground Resistance and was used by permission. No profit was made from exhibiting this video.

modcycle.

Better known colloquially as "DJ Night." Perhaps one of the most successful, attended, talked about DJ Nights in CCS' history, due in no small part to an aggressive advertising campaign. The cafeteria was filled with projections from 3 sources, two filling the windows and showing outside and one projecting on to me and the wall behind me, as I played a selection of house, techno, acid jazz, drum & bass, and electro.

This was a partially a study of compositing and blending modes, partially a showcase of my senior animations and films, partially a study of abstract film and animation. And it is entirely personal.

This is a small excerpt of the sights and sounds of that night.

cinematography & you.

A not entirely serious educational film on making your own films. Remember, not following the rules of cinema will result in clandestine secret police squads taking you off to gulag.

the playground.

A concept piece. Flythrough a battered playground, occasionally flashing back to a dreamlike before-time that was bright and pretty.

spiritual pathways/renewal weekend slideshow.

Created for first pres., Evanston. I thought it was kinda cool.