We, the People
is a poetic flow of the unique and irreplaceable images, sounds, faces, colors, textures, places, and things from within the quickly disappearing landscape of the Alphabet City neighborhood in the Lower East Side. Fictional characters reflect the many individual stories and moments that may not continue into the future as the world changes around them – and more or less threatens them with permanent extinction.
Inside Outside
Manhattan tree-hugger resists mechanical monster invasion of her neighborhood through peace/love/art.
Garden Party
NYC performance artist Valmonte Sprout prepares for a party – in a garden that has been demolished.
We Became the Enemy
Artists and Bicyclists of Alphabet City become the enemy in the wake of 9/11.
The Last Depot
The Last Depot is a contemporary four-character screenplay is set in a New York City café. Four characters – two men and two women – wait for a bus to take them to the next stop, if there is a next stop. The story is presented as a flow of poetic images mixed with live action dramatic shots of the four characters in the story. There is an experimental approach to the editing of the images that gives a stream-of-conscious or altered sense of reality to the video piece.
The Wizard’s Mistress
A collaborative performance video, which was selected for inclusion in the Kino Shorts Festival in Manchester, England. A repentant woman bewitches a priest in the confessional booth, triggering his journey into fantasy and hallucination.
March On Freedom
March On Freedom is a stream of consciousness portrait of a male character in downtown New York City as he explores various physical spaces and locations – and experiences flashbacks to earlier events from a more violent landscape. The flashbacks are woven together with contemporary scenes of anti-war demonstrations in New York City. The stream of consciousness mixes two simultaneous realities – two realities that combine and become one.
Bunuel Y’All
inspired by certain moments from Luis Bunuel’s “Belle de Jour”.It is a trance-like, repetitive flow of the sometimes clear, sometimes obscure fantasies that surround us in our daily rituals – particularly in a contemporary, urban/downtown landscape.
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This Performance Video is a collaborative piece with Emmy and Tony award winning actor, John Larroquette, of ‘Night Court” on NBC and “How to Succeed in Business…” on Broadway: brief stream-of-consciousness monologues inspired by and performed in the New Orleans French Quarter using site specific locations and architectural references.
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Video collaboration with Krzyzstof Zarebski at the Chelsea Museum, NYC. Live Performance by Zarebski <based on sculptural objects in motion, simultaneously broadcast <via closed-circuit> as a live installation to the audience; with the recorded video of the Performance then presented later as a separate video Installation at the Chelsea Museum.
Paris-New York Video Blog
is a montage of free-flowing, poetic images and sounds from the streets of Paris and New York – an exchange between artists – a sound and visual flow to capture both cities. Juxtaposition of images and sounds to compare/contrast the two locations. A sampling of moments that captures corresponding and contrasting rhythms and textures, energy, moods and tones.
The Earth People Vs. the Carcass Eaters
Performance, was selected for inclusion in the Chasama Film festival, New York City. Parallel themes and plots revolving around the efforts to survive in NYC – from several different viewpoints: go-go dancers, artists, poets, veterans of the war – the war both at home and abroad.
The Adventures of Kat Woman
The video is based on an Off-Broadway theatre performance at La Mama, Etc., New York City – written and directed by Armand A. Ruhlman.
Martial Law #1
A visual and auditory stream of consciousness of various people, places, things, words, sounds, thoughts, images, colors, textures, and other dynamics within the Manhattan urban environment. Shot on location, before, after, and on the day of 9-11-2001.
N’awlins
This documentary presents various images and sounds from New Orleans, along with historic images of New Orleans – to convey the poetic mystique and history of the city. Shown in over PBS stations, KCET in Los Angeles, and WYES in New Orleans.
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This documentary style video is a stream of consciousness flow, mostly of human faces, from the Vietnam War. It received the ‘Man & Nature’ award, Marin Film Festival, California.
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The drama, is a collaboration with other theater artists to present a stream of consciousness flow of brief dramatic moments from a scene in ‘Month in the Country’ – received the Eisner prize, U. C., Berkeley.
