2009

 
Woman As Image Single Channel Edit, 2009
Originally presented as a two-channel durational installation for my CalArts thesis show, re-edited for theatre viewing.
We Cross Sometimes, 2009 

Living on a ranch in the small working-class town of Santa Paula in California, I filmed psychics visiting the ranch to find the hidden stories.

Feb 132010
 

Laura Mulvey’s essay ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’ became some kind of remedial text applied with frequency to my impasse at CalArts. This well written and convincing text served to make me feel guilty about what I wanted to do in practice. It also became a gateway to Kaplan, Doanne, de Lauritis and Modeleski. I needed to make work and I had to read a lot of material in a short space of time. The voices merged into one and I became alienated and overwhelmed by their high minded approach. However, I was attracted to their certainties, the tone of voice so authoritative and sure. The tone and their attachment of the spectacle and pleasure in film which they actively disavow becomes something ripe for parody. The question is whether or not this is something I want to explore in my work.