Cellmates, brooklyn, ny, hi-8, 8:14 mins, 1998
This short video was inspired by silent films of yore that my friend and fellow film classmate, Myles and I did for fun. Or, it might have been a class assignment for film history class where we had the option to make a film, instead of a paper.
Give me my slippers or give me death, brooklyn, ny, super8 (no sound), 12:00 mins, 1998
This was my final film I class assignment, which was shot on super8. It was a year worth of footage with scenes using different people. But, I think it worked out in the end since the film was sort of about college and the universe-city. I got the title after seeing lots of slipper action in the footage and I thought it would make for an appropriate and funny title.
Pratt main bldg, brooklyn, ny, ilford hp5 plus, circa 1998
Pratt machine room, brooklyn, ny, ilford hp5 plus, circa 1998
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve envisioned and tried (in vain) to make a film that featured and perhaps, even set the whole thing around this room at Pratt Institute’s Main Bldg in Brooklyn—probably a dozen-thousand times. Many films from Metropolis to Brazil to Eraserhead came to mind when I thought of this room. But, alas, I couldn’t think of anything concrete besides those afore-mentioned films looping in my brain that the dreamed-film never came to fruition. I did make other films though that took place in-and-around the machine room and I like to think that some of that inspiration oozed its way into those works.
Concert 5 @ pratt, brooklyn, ny, ilford hp5 plus, fall 1997
Concert 4 @ pratt, brooklyn, ny, ilford hp5 plus, fall 1997
Concert 3 @ pratt, brooklyn, ny, ilford hp5 plus, fall 1997
Concert 2 @ pratt, brooklyn, ny, ilford hp5 plus, fall 1997
Concert @ pratt, brooklyn, ny, ilford hp5 plus, fall 1997
I remember shooting a couple rolls of this student union concert at pratt when I was a freshman. They were shot & developed to be super contrasty and grainy. So much so that it’s hard to tell where one negative ends and another begins.
Pratt campus, brooklyn, ny, pencil on paper, 9” x 12,” circa 1997
This one was, at least, a very quick sketch that it doesn’t look unfinished.
