Readying

Homage to the Akerman masterpiece Jeanne Dielman. Film by Roger Stack. Music by Star Amerasu.

Music by and starring Star Amerasu (as AH-MER-AH-SU). Film by Roger Stack.

A celebration of being there for yourself in this wild, isolating world. Created during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and captured entirely through iPhone screen recording.

He is mute flesh that the stroking of fingers can bring to sing.

Inspired by George Kuchar’s The Mongreloid, Scarlett reminisces with her cat Lolita about their years together, telling her own and her family's story.

A love letter that will send the dark underneath; hand made on clear 16mm leader with colored pens, nail polish, and found footage laying around the San Francisco Art Institute’s Studio X.

A black-and-white 16mm portrait of a young sex addict in San Francisco.

A multi-layered, painterly work of prayer, meditation, and autohypnosis.

Documentation of a performance art piece about the artist’s mother, incorporating video, audio recording, and photography; performed live in Studio 9 at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Surveillance snapped into the creative mind of a filmmaker on a surreal walk home from the movies on a rainy night.

A Godard-esque depiction of the mastication of grapefruit meat.

A union of earlier experiments and experience of filmmaking as meditation, prayer, and autohypnosis. Some kind of holy, emotional euphoria., escaping poetic words. Music and cinema are everywhere.

The filmmaker visits their friend in the hospital and the two make a movie that's filmed backward but played forward.

Stream-of-conscious filmmaking with live performance, on mustering up the energy to seize the day and work with the knowledge of future flowers.

Video detail of the 'lamenting' 22 minute performance art piece at San Francisco's Theatre Rhinoceros: "I would be kidding myself if I didn't think Aphrodite had something to do with this, and obviously Emma Bovary would have loved this!"

A video diary from Xmas 2023 New Years to awards season, the filmmaker's personal cinema, and a tribute/time capsule of their cat Fox, their movie-loving friends and film community of Portland, and the actresses they love -- with Annette Bening's Nyad Oscar campaign as its political backdrop.