YOKO MADE ME DO IT

Apple Express follows a group of teenagers who habitate a virtually parentless lower income household in rural Tennessee in 2005.

Gladman Humbles was the first Black firefighter in Paducah, Kentucky in 1963. He reads excerpts of the eulogy he wrote for Glen Deweese, who was the fire chief during his tenure who inadvertently became his best friend.

A boy smokes a cigarette on multiple screens.

The film (runtime 70 mins) collages documentary footage of small town USA (Kentucky and West Tennessee), with a narrative structure, karaoke, poetry and slapstick puppetry. The plot loosely follows Tyler and Nola Jane, a brother and sister struggling to conform to their small town environment. Their world begins to unravel when confronted by twin-like strangers, Phocian and Faith, who have lackadaisical aspirations of forming a queer love cult and distorting Confederate symbology. Phocian and Faith traverse the landscape like childish clowns. They speak in riddle and ultimately cause the other characters to join their antics. Confederitis explores disturbing aspects of Southern culture and the impotence of escapism in our current political climate. Confederitis melds film genre and was shot on multiple formats and film stocks such as: Super 8mm, 16mm, Hi-8, Betamax, VHS, HD, cellphone, and more.

A documentation of the reception for Harmony Korine's exhibition of photography titled "Pigxote" at Vanderbilt Fine Arts Gallery in Nashville, Tennessee in January 2009. The show was curated by Vanderbilt University assistant curator Joseph Whitt.

In this docu-fiction short, a group of community theater actors create a casino through a sense-memory workshop and explore the workshop’s effect on their own histories, imaginations, and performances.