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Takes
place in high school in between classes. A student follows a girl he has
a crush on. A tribute to "chase-sequences" and the beginning sequence
of a film, called "Seconds." My first edited work using two VCR's. Made
for final class assignment during last year of high school.
Watch trailer, HERE
Two friends take a break from classes by shooting pool at a local Mexican Pool Hall. During the game, they ruminate about some girl one of them has a crush on. This was edited using a more sophisticated Sony Hi-8 Linear Editing Deck.
Full-length film now available, HERE
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Another rumination of
the infinitude that dormitories and solitude allow where ones desires,
ambition and needs collide. An attempt to draw out an epical, universal
universe that I was in (college). My first film ever, edited using a nifty
Super 8 editor.
Full-length film now available, HERE
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Two roommates try to
put up with their living differences. One smokes and one suffers. An assignment
for Film History class which had to be done in style of silent films.
Full-length film now available, HERE
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Made up of found footage
from the Philippines I found that has me operating behind my dad's Minolta
8mm Camcorder before leaving for America, intercut with present footage.
I question the past, my memory and my talent as a filmmaker to make something
that I vaguely remember and subjective into something palpable.
Two people, a young man and a young woman attempt to meet each other in a deliberate and constructed narrative that makes their meeting impossible. A rumination of the Empire State as I knew it - a paradise with a bite of loneliness, solitude, romance, tragedy, cruelty, indifference and confrontations. Edited using a Sony SVHS Linear Editing System. (Screened at Long Island Institute Film Festival in 2000, The Millenium and The Pioneer Theater in NYC.)
Full-length film now available, HERE
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Another assignment for
Film History class. This time, the talkies and color were introduced in
the movies. In that respect, Connie and I attempted to make another "Breathless"
moment in cinema history. What we got is a documentary of a day in the
life of Connie Brady. She wakes up, makes coffee, smokes cigarettes, cleans
up, dresses and finally escapes her apartment to see what the city has
to offer her. She goes to a modeling agency and finds out that the photo
she has of herself is not "professional."
Quicktime movie now available, HERE
Continuing on the
nonsynchronousity of "Nonsynch," the film is a short stuttering tale
of a messenger trying to deliver a package during New Years Day 2000,
while the occupants are fast asleep and hung over. The coffemaker brewing,
the electric buzzer buzzing, memories fading, future escaping, man and
woman on the couch in a spoon-like position and a messenger stuck out
in the cold between two bridges with no other place to go but inside.
An attempt to render the alien landscape of the morning after, before
and for ever. My first synched-sound film, edited on an Avid McExpress,
including a crew and professional actors. (Screened at Pioneer Theater's
"Film Slam.")
Quicktime movie now
available, HERE
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On-the-side project
of my ex-roommates, Renee, Andrea and Danielle. Shows them at home, mostly
working, being silly, reflective and even serious. Edited on Hi-8 linear
decks & shot on Canon ES6000.
A student befriends
a strange young woman and accompanies her for a day. He introduces her
to his friend who happens to lend her his bike. The love-triangle happens
in the film for an instant and then dissappears to the night. Edited
on a 6-Plate 16mm Steinbeck. (Screened at Pioneer Theater's "Film Slam.")
Full-length film now available, HERE
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Short piece illustrating
the mechanics and possibilties of rendering myself as puppet and master,
smoker and smoke. One film roll-long and edited in-camera.
A girl and her cellphone while out in the city one day. A simple Vertovian-like film, using superimpositions in exploring the city's connections and organism. One film roll- long, digitally transferred and edited using Final Cut Pro.
Trailer availaible, HERE
Senior thesis project. Click here
for further description. Summary: Students are explored here, not as students;
classrooms are visited between classes; videogames are homework; subways
are platforms; airplanes are conditional horizons of traffic, etc. Also
an exploration of video itself - its many forms and future. A kind of
making of a video, except in the opposite direction. The subject really
tries, maybe too vaguely, to lose a head and thus sense of direction.
Sort of like what the Lumiere Brothers discovered, anticipation of cinema
- pre cinema. Edited on Final Cut Pro. (Screened at Pratt's Memorial Hall
and Pioneer Theater's "Film Slam.")
Full-length film now available, HERE
A video in 4 parts
about a poet's journey into the night. Begins at "rush hour"
and ends at dawn.
Quicktime video available, HERE
©1997-2001, CSB Productions