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Commander (2019) Commander (2019) is a silent short film depicting an encounter between animal-human hybrids and a shipwrecked Anthropologist. Set both in the past and the future, the alien creatures inhabit a warped interzone, a coastal shingle wasteland. The anthropologist, Colonel Pike, appears as an apparition from the horizon, almost a ghost from our colonial past. The hybrids are a hyper-evolved blend of animal and human. Colonel Pike becomes the subject of perverse ritual and is magically banished.
The film was shot using a voyeuristic camera style. The choreography of movements was rehearsed and then adapted on location. In collaboration with costume designer Florent Venet, the hybrid costumes were the starting point for the project. The creatures come to life as they crawl, undulate, and writhe on the terrain while Colonel Pike awkwardly trips over.
The clash between the hybrids and the anthropologist creates the possibility of combining multiple oppositions: past/future, animal/human, design/evolution. By conjoining these polarities what kind of reality can we call into being? I’m interested in manifesting conflict.
OOO (2020) OOO (2020) takes the form of a video diary where sacrifices are offered to a deity in my attic. It’s time to feed the hungry boy. Will my offerings suffice? Colorful vignettes of domestic life and found texts move in a meditative rhythm narrated by a grave, malevolent voiceover. Made during the COVID-19 pandemic, it serves as a document of life spent indoors.
OOO is an anagram for Out of Office. As the workplace slips into the domestic, what impact does this have on our psyche? The conflation of work, creativity, worship, and play point to the confusing context the late capitalist subject operates in. By rendering a fictive digital Deity the video considers new forms of worship, prayer, and ritual outside of organised Religion.
Join O (2021)
Join O (2021) is a cult recruitment film in which spiritual leader O sells his miracle cure, Pure Mineral Solution (PMS™), to new customers and followers. PMS™ nurtures your evolution, breeds success, and gives you access to a global movement. Without it you remain passive and hopelessly average.
Hyperreal 3D renderings of PMS™ combine with saturated studio footage reminiscent of glossy tech ads and New Age imagery. Having worked in advertising and with an Orthodox background, the filmmaker examines the juicy intersection between spirituality and branding. In both cases ideology is holy and the zenith of power – not people. What does an Enlightened consumer look like? With eyes glowing electric blue, O is the answer.