Joer 1985 - 303

Made during the AIDS epidemic, this film lightheartedly tackles the issue of “safe sex”.

As I was visiting my great friend the painter L ..., I surprised him during his nap. Indeed, after several exhibitions, he took a well-deserved rest. When he woke up, he told me: "It is not so easy to rest from Art. I have the pretty formula 'a workshop in my head.' I just dreamed of a painter."

A short sci-fi youth project film.

"A narrative so to speak, a threatening environment, a space which opens up in a 'wall,' revealing, a threat that speaks across mediumistic boundaries." – Ed Schwartz

During the period when the Great Emperor Constantine the Great was considered the Great Emperor, that is, in the 4th century AD, Avenir reigned in India. He acquired a son, Joasaph, for whom astrologers said that when he grew up he would become a Christian. When Evenir heard this, he became agitated, anxious, and, in order to thwart this urge, locked Joasaph in a remote palace. He advised servants and teachers never to speak before him about the faith of Christians. As the years went by, Joseph grew up and received a brilliant education, but he could not banish melancholy and apathy from his limitations. He asked to know why this was happening, but no one answered. His father once allowed him to go out for a walk, but under strict surveillance. On one of his walks he met two poor elderly people, approached them alone and gave them generous alms. Excited, they revealed the secret of his limitation. From then on, he was thirsty to learn about the Christian faith.

By using television images as its raw material, Scratch positioned itself, and video more generally, as the medium for a more dynamic, more interactive mode of image-consumption, and even a more networked mode of viewership—as the group Gorilla Tapes later put it, Scratch was a way of “talk[ing] back to television.” Enabled by the development of innovative professional and consumer video technologies, artists like Gorilla Tapes, George Barber, and Sandra Goldbacher and Kim Flitcroft deployed a style characterized by the rapid sampling, editing, and manipulation of dissociated images drawn from video archives and broadcast television. Exploiting this newly available battery of tools, Scratch Video artists warped, composited, windowed, posterized, keyed, colorized, and superimposed these images, exploring uncharted aesthetic terrain that in many ways anticipates, and has strongly influenced, the types of image-manipulation made possible by today’s digital image software.

Mexican feature film

Rosa's brother and husband are in charge of a Texas senator's ranch and participate in a horse race where a murder occurs.

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

Mexican feature film

According to Mr. Julio Pena, quartermaster of the Chapultepec Palace: "One day I came into the room where the prisoners had been kept and noticed a fair-sized chuck of the new carpeting has been removed...bloodstains...no other prisoners were being held there. I assumed this was where President and Vice President of the Republic has been assassinated." English Subtitles

In March of 85, I filmed the stainless steel square in Boston on a very cold, windy and bright day. The piece of steel is much alive with sound and has its own incredible energy. That same month, I filmed my friends Charly and Natalie Di Costanzo in the redwoods of Eureka, CA using a blue-gel microphone.