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					THE TAILENDERS is a captivating look at a missionary group's use of ultra-low-tech audio devices to evangelize indigenous communities facing crises caused by global economic forces. Global Recordings Network, founded in Los Angeles in 1939, has produced audio versions of Bible stories in over 5,500 languages, and aims to record in every language on earth. The film traces their journeys in the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India and the United States, where they distribute the recordings, along with hand-wind audio players, to "the Tailenders": the last people to be reached by worldwide evangelism. (72 minutes, DV Cam, 2006) MORE INFO
					PLAYAS (working title) In a New Mexico ghost-town turned simulated-town, local people are hired to play the parts of terrorists and victims in government-funded simulation training exercises. This interventionist documentary juxtaposes the training exercises with a theater workshop in which the local community acts out the stories of their town. (DV Cam, work in progress)
					10 EXPERIMENTS ON PERIPHERAL VISION This film explores peripheral vision through a series of short, discrete film experiments, each of which approaches the topic from a different perspective: attempts to film peripheral vision, perceptual experiments, and stories about interpreting and mistaking what we see. (20 minutes, 16mm, work in progress, a collaboration with Paul VanDeCarr)
					THE IMAGE WORLD The world seeks to replicate itself. Smooth surfaces create reflections, objects cast shadows, and apertures transmit the appearance of what lies beyond them.   When sunlight falls through the spaces between leaves on a tree, the "pin-hole" apertures in the foliage create images of the sun on the ground below. This film records replicas of the sun as they appear and disappear in the dappled light under trees. (16mm, work in progress)
					THE POINT OF TRUE BEGINNING is informed by research on how colonial travel writing produced the idea of the frontier for readers at home. The Point of True Beginning begins with one small object--an adventure book about a cowboy's turn-of-the-century exploration of Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico--and widens into a meditation on how the story of "discovery" gets told in radio plays, adventure films, and natural history museums.   (16mm, 15 minutes, 1998)
					HOMOMORPHY is a video and mixed media installation reflecting on instances of camouflage and mimicry found in the environment in and around Los Angeles. Vladimir Nabokov describes mimicry in butterflies as a phenomenon displaying an "artistic perfection usually associated with man-wrought things." Camouflage and mimicry upset the dichotomies of nature/artifice, true nature/outward semblance, truth/deception, natural/false. (video and mixed media, 2004) MORE INFO