(2023, VHS, sound, 8min. 45s.)
A leap into pointless frivolity as an attempt to escape capitalist pressures. The performance of childish play allows artists to embody Allan Kaprow's ideas about experimental art, "The playground for experimental art is ordinary life".
(2023, 16mm-to-digital, 4.5 min., sound)
An open invitation to long-buried Anger, of whom we are no longer afraid. Fan-made supercuts of a perpetrator-turned-actor are repurposed and printed onto 16mm. Rage is shamelessly reclaimed and we find something to do about it. There is no need to yell.
(2016/2023, 3.5 min., 16mm, sound)
An obsessive reverence for grime. Intimate closeups explore a laundromat in Johnson City, NY, finding beauty in the disrepair. Optically printed black & white images superimposed on their color counterparts sparkle with processing errors, fetishizing the dust, the peeling paint.
(2021, 2.5 min., 16mm, sound)
a portrait of a dear friend.
sound recording by Daniel Woehr and Helen Frazer.
writing by Helen Frazer.
(2021, 12 min. 51s, various small gauge film, sound)
I tried for two years not to breathe or touch my body numb the bones settling crooked. Just be yourself! A voice breaks like leather cracking. Thinking is a skill that can be developed. The point to prove it didn’t happen because I’m not the—no one’s the one who would let this happen, bruises blooming and, dishes feathers and bones in the sink and the sky stretched taut black tarp, bloodroot shining and the creeks clotted with trash and it’s all my fault: my fault, I am the tender place where the world breaks.
(2021, 2 min. 36s, 16mm to digital, sound)
Trans folks find comfort, joy, and a new level of intimacy in each other's arms.
"T4T" is a term within the queer community for trans folks who seek relationships with other trans folks.
(2020, 3 min., 16mm, sound)
An extended metaphor that likens the visual qualities of a pot of water coming to a boil to the experiential qualities of a person coming to orgasm.
(2019, 6 min. 6s, super 8mm, sound)
An exercise in introspection, a request for patience, an exploration of space both internal and external. Have you ever felt connected to someone you’ve never met?