Dallas Video Festival 2008

A chamber drama set in the confines of an apartment's sun-room, this video further explores visual themes and obsessions found in my earlier works and adds in a few new ones for good measure. Earlier motifs seen here are lightbulbs in pendulum movement, tabletop antics with simple household objects, Christo-like fleshy textures, sketchbook pages torn from their binders, book pages, bookshelves, and flowers. I play a vaguely Walter Mitty-ish figure, who imagines himself as a conductor, as Orpheus, and as conflicted characters in a Garbo movie. A book of famous paintings is used as a matrix in which to create ironical juxtapositions, which aggravate my character. Illuminated book pages of William Blake are strewn about to further comment on and reinforce the underlying themes.