N is for Nan

Wish You Were Here, is the one minute film I made with the guidance of Afcoop.

It's about a girl (Laura Dawe) whose 11:11 wish comes true.

One minute can seem long when you are waiting for work to be done, but it's quite short when your making a movie :)

The music is by Ben Gallagher, I hope you like it!

N is for Nan

Nan Goldin was introduced to me three years ago by the Göteborg Art Museum. As I viewed the exhibit my heart jumped into my throat and stayed there almost choking me, death by heart, an end for so many of Goldin's subjects.

Her subject matter and rawness overwhelm me and teach me a lesson in consequences.

Her exhibits and slideshows are a silent narration of the photographers life, I was happy to find the following interview that adds a voice to the images.

N is for Nan

So I did that thing where you erase the past three years video files from your hard drive... sure I felt disappointed but also didn't care too much because it was a good way to finish a lot of unfinished work.

So now I am making new things like this choreographed video featuring two of my latest obsessions:

1. Ann-Margret dancing and 2. the band Long Long Long.

The song is called 'Its at Night that you Might' and I borrowed all the footage from YouTube so its super grainy but I also think its super fun!

N is for Nan

Here is another video project from last Fall's Introductory Video class at NSCAD. The initial idea was to do a remake video of past work from a chosen video artist. Wendy Geller had been a BFA student at NSCAD and while there in 1982 made a great video called 48 Hour Beauty Blitz, where she locked herself inside for the weekend to follow a ridiculous beauty regime laid out in the pages of Glamour magazine. The routine of:eat blended food-workout-do your hair/nails/face is interjected with a feminist soliloquy of the congruence of identity and appearance.

I had initially planned to lock myself inside and do some silly beauty routine or as Gwenyth Paltrow calls it "nourishing the inner aspect", but then our class watched The 5 Obstructions and we too were given obstructions pertaining to the making of our video. My obstructions were : 1. no women can be seen 2. have to shoot from the inside out 3. there has to be a lot of eating.

So this is the result. I wanted to make it look like the VHS format Wendy had used and I recorded the audio from her 45 minute video then chose clips (some choppy) to overlap with the diegetic sounds recorded on North St. It's the story of the guy who gets locked out when Wendy locks herself in Alex was/is the best!

N is for Nan

Here are two videos I made during the Fall 2009 Introductory Video Class at NSCAD with David Clark.

The first is called 'I could', the assignment was self expression in seven words and we could only do in camera editing.

The second I call 'Yin Yang Dance' where we were supplied with a music sample and given access to the lights at the Film Department.

I think they are funny because I am in them!

N is for Nan (the director)

This is the first music video I made for/with the talented DIY siren Pamela Underwater.