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Current linear video projects.

-This video edited by computer
-Staring Newscasters
-Vide-Uhhh!

This video edited by computer
2005
Exploration into automatic editing technologies, 1 minute
Eric and catphone communicate

Computer programs exist which automatically edit video footage
for you. But when the "Family memories" soundtrack is combined
with the "Over the top music video" editing style preset, an
unexpected output results.

Eric notices the catphone

Of course, this is complicated further when the source video is an
absurdist account of an interaction between a human and a
stuffed cat with a phone embedded in its abdomen.

Past exhibitions:

2007 ICE Film Festival
Presented in Program #6 on Oct. 5.

2006 PDX FIlm Fest
Presented in Shorts Program #1 on April 28.

Staring Newscasters
2006
Manipulated digital recording of a
local news broadcast, 1.5 minutes
Staring newscasters still 1

Staring Newscasters utilizes extensive use of matte technology
to re-direct the actions displayed by local news reporters.
The hour-long broadcast has been transformed into a 1 minute 
30 second drama about the boredom of the local news, and the
desire of the newcasters to be elsewhere.

Staring newscasters still 2

Past exhibitions:

ATA Film & Video Festival at La Enana Marron
Madrid, Spain
March 2007

ATA Film & Video Festival
San Francisco, California
October 20th, 2006

2006 PDX Film Fest
Presented in Shorts Program #2 on April 29th.

Stonehenge Space, Eugene, Oregon
Jan. 12, 2006


Vide-Uhhh!
2005
DV and VHS video, 2 minutes
The VHS VCR reacts to being picked up.

Produced using a VHS VCR and a digital camcorder, Vide-Uhhh!
is an exploration into the use of VHS as a recording medium with
a degraded but desirable image, much like hand-processed
Super8 film or PXL2000 video.

As the usage of movie film declines, the "film look" of wiggly,
vibrating scratch lines and film grain is replaced with the rolling
horizontal bars and multicolored blotches of old video. The current
generation of young adults probably grew up with video, removing
the nostalgic feeling from watching chemical film.

On another level, Vide-Uhhh! was an experiment to "scratch"
video much like one can scratch the emulsion of waste 16mm film.
Experiments with magnets on prerecorded tape were conducted,
but the magnets could not produce visually compelling interference.
The best results came from altering video by physical force as the
content was being recorded; in this case it was a live image of the
VCR itself, provided by a video camera.

Past Exhibitions:

    October 5, 2007
    ICE Film Festival
    Iowa City, Iowa

    October 13, 2006
    K!Filmfest
    Antwerp, Belgium

    March 15-20, 2006
    25TH VIPER International festival for film video and new media
    Basel, Switzerland
    Presented as a looped single-channel installation at the Plug.in gallery.
   
    August 12, 2005 
    Rythmn from Wreckage
    DIVA Gallery, Eugene, Oregon
     
    2005 Bayennale in San Francisco
    Part of "The Art of Interruption" show at A.T.A., curated by Carl Diehl
    Friday, August 5 2005 8pm

    The 18th Dallas Video Festival
    August 7 2005
   
    July 2005- Small Change Screenings
    Space 1026, Philadelphia

    May 2005-I Can't Believe It's Not My Produce!
    Presented by Peripheral Produce
    Part of the Docs and Frocks festival, DIVA Gallery, Eugene, Oregon

    April 2005- PDX Film Fest (Invitational division)
    Guild Theatre, Portland, Oregon

    March 2005- Rythmn from Wreckage
    DIVA Gallery, Eugene, Oregon