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(2007, 2:19, 13 Mb)
This is a study in the human/pony interface…a
first date. I believe that the social construct of the gender binary,
of the he and of the she, is a completely insufficient means of
describing bodies and lives. Here I am presenting the love of an
inanimate object, and present this love as passionate and powerful
as that of any conventional human/human love.
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(2007, 6:00, 35 Mb)
This is an experiment in the reenactment
of everyday life through video. I obtained footage from artist Al
Larsen which captured him trying to remove a possum from his garage.
In viewing Larsen’s video, I was compelled to play the possum
in my reenactment, rather than portraying any of the humans involved
in the removal attempt. I used the original audio so that the viewer
is privy to the human conversation while confronted with the visual
of the suffering possum.
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(2006, 2:34, 15 Mb)
This video is an excerpt from the end of
the movie musical “Singin’ In The Rain”. In this
scene, a lip-syncing Hollywood starlet is exposed as a fraud when
the curtain she is performing in front of is drawn aside to reveal
the source of her beautiful singing voice, a mere chorus girl.
In my presentation of this scene, all of the sound is replaced
by my own dialogue and music. I play all of the characters, male
and female, and further manipulate the end of the scene by having
Gene Kelly divulge to the audience that the real star of the picture
is Sarah Paul.
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(2005, 5:36, 30 Mb)
In this animation, I am looking at the
monotony and inherent frustration with the conventional medical management
of mental illnesses, particularly anxiety and panic disorders. The
piece is an abstract depiction of the struggle to balance extreme
levels of stress with and without medication. The animation is accompanied
by a musical piece composed with samples of stress-inducing sounds,
including a vacuum, a heated discussion happening over a B horror
film, clanking dishes in a sink, furious pencil scratching, and
crinkling foil wrappers.
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