After the technological singularity dissolved man into time and space, a fragment of human memory lives on in a computer-like consciousness. HYPNOSUGGESTION is a collaboration between a human and an AI, a hypnotic sci-fi thriller consisting only of still images generated by an AI, an examination of our memory and subconsciousness.
After the technological singularity dissolved man into time and space, a fragment of human memory lives on in a computer-like consciousness. HYPNOSUGGESTION is a collaboration between a human and an AI, a hypnotic sci-fi thriller consisting only of still images generated by an AI, an examination of our memory and subconsciousness.
Both an intimate family portrait and a cinematic collage of Black and trans collective memory and (be)longing, meditating on themes of safety, bodily autonomy and generations of compounding loss across time and media.
A video collaboration with Chicago industrial band Conjunto Primitivo. An exploration of the ills of industrialization and urban decay, this essay film works as an anti-city symphony, while toeing the line as a dark love song to the gritty cityscape, Chicago, which the artists call home.
Care and violence, acknowledgement and reprehension, to give or withdraw support: the video finds performative, sculptural, bizarre and poetic images for this range of diverse gestures and actions. They line up like a series of tests reflecting interpersonal relationships and current social conditions.
Three artists work in stride to translate, in sound and motion, the heart of a poem. They collaborate with life’s unexpecteds – snapped clotheslines, drained swimming pools, terminal diagnoses – and learn what falls away is not necessarily gone.
Coast, a 17-year-old transman, navigates the maze of his traditional Christian mother and his relationship after he comes out as female-to-male or "FTM" transgender. Feeling trapped in suffocating suburbia, Coast finds acceptance from an unexpected source when he can't find it at home.
An aging security guard walks his beat along an abandoned strip mall, contemplating the suburban landscape and his purpose in guarding the vacant property.
Crushed under the unbearable weight of time, an airplane has an existential crisis and hijacks itself. Exploring the suspended space in the air as a zone between life and death, anxiety and calm, technology and spirituality.
An animation inspired by train delay messages and their poetic potential. An examination of all the things that can go wrong: on the train, in the urban environment, and in our lives. All drawings done while riding the Chicago metro system.
Amidst the ivy-draped remnants of once-notorious public housing projects, FOR THOSE THAT LIVED THERE weaves a visual tapestry, navigating the poignant impacts of gentrification, the displacement of Black legacies, and the emergent migrant narratives. Against Chicago's ever-evolving skyline, this evocative exploration immerses audiences into the soul of a neighborhood transformed.
A collection of films facing facets of self-revolting indulgence to sustain, oil and water of truth and artifice, perpetuated objectification, an external tragedy self-imposed, and an attempt to wash it all away. Trauma dilutes one’s grasp of reality.
Elio, a space fanatic with an active imagination, finds himself on a cosmic misadventure where he
must form new bonds with eccentric alien lifeforms, navigate a crisis of intergalactic proportions and
somehow discover who he is truly meant to be.
Juliano is a very unlucky guy, after leaving another failed job interview, Juliano ends up recognizing things inside himself that he had never noticed before.
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