My personal experiemental film work is driven by a curiousity and fascination with place and space and how these effect people on both mental and emotional levels. I am most interested in abstracted images which vaguely represent places and spaces giving hints of the past and the future; a physical representation of a location which represents mental and emotional associations within a person's being. People and the places they connect with are found throughout my films.
My sense of artistic practice and space is heavily influenced by new media and emerging technologies. Combining the notion of interactivity and the internet as both public and artistic space, I am looking to explore the possibilities these give to experimental cinema.
Currently I am in production of my MFA thesis project, the PIX Film Project, which you can visit at the Project link at the top of the page. This project will be in pre-production until December of 2006 and then will travel to various locations between February and May 2007. At this point, the PIX film project will live on through this website. This work attempts to find answers to the following:
Why has experimental cinema been continually overlooked by the mainstream film community? Is it the fault of the corporate exhibition and distribution system? Can new technology help find a viable outlet for experimental cinema? Can technologies bring experimental works to a larger audience? Can these new technologies re-invent the notion of collaboration? If audiences feel personally engaged with experimental cinema will they be more interested? What does it mean to collaborate and interact? Who sets the standards for the value of another person’s collaborative input? How will the collaborative nature of interactive technologies affect experimental cinema?