Untitled (Sedona Video), 2007
Special thanks to Eos Yolanda, who allowed me to tape our session, and to Roxie Fuller and Rena Kosnett. Shot and recorded in Sedona Arizona, September 2007.
A multi-channel video installation incorporating 40 videos into one night karaoke. Installed and performed at Event Horizon, GSK Contemporary, at the Royal Academy of Art, London, (2008), The Apple Tree, London (2008), and The Mandrake Bar, Los Angeles (2010).
JESSIE LIVES: Aunt Salami (2007). Cast: Roxie Fuller - A scene I shot with Roxie about Jessie’s morbidly obese aunt Sallie. 2 minutes.
JESSIE LIVES: FOUL (2007). Cast: Roxie Fuller - In which Jessie sits through her PE class. Her coach mistakes her for a trash can, and all hell breaks loose. 5 minutes.
JESSIE LIVES: The Painting(2006)Cast: Roxie Fuller - A scene we reference in the longer Lookin’ for Friends in All the Wrong Places. Jessie’s new foray into artistic expression attracts attention from Rodney, who hates her painting but invites Jessie to his party anyways. 5 minutes.
JESSIE LIVES: B.M.O.C. (Big Man on Campus) (2006). Cast: Roxie Fuller - One of the very first scenes I shot with Roxie in January 2006 at our old high school. Roxie managed to convince a teacher to let us through the gates by acting like a student. “I think I left some food in my locker, and I’m afraid of rats,” she said. 4 minutes.
Jenny, The Girl With No Eyes (2005). Cast: Lucy Griffin, Allison Brie, Jessica Zelenko, Jason Underhill (voice) and Jessica Dobkin (voice) - Co-Directed with Jessica Dobkin. This video was supposed to be the first in a series of mockumentary-style episodes about collapsing productions (It’s fitting, I guess, that this is the only video to come from that series). This is an attempt to make a film about Jenny, a high-school junior who, as she alleges, was born with no eyes. 13 minutes.
It’s the Beating of That Hideous Heart! (The Beating of Our Hearts is the Only Sound) (2004). Cast: Rena Kosnett. Written by Jason Underhill and Rena Kosnett. Directed by Jason Underhill - An attempt to undermine the sentiment of cinematic motivations by exploiting the medium’s more nostalgic tendencies (in this case, 60s music and super 8 film). Special Thanks: dead bird we found on the beach. You were at once a convenient prop and chilling reminder of our own mortality.
