My Movie

Dialectic Definitions

Dana seemingly records a fellow professor reading each word in an encyclopedia.

Window

The construction of a projected window in the basement.

Dialectic Discourse

A conceptual film about the limits of the frame

Reflexfilm/Familyfilm

A blend of home movie and structuralist film

Psycho Palindrome

Psycho, backwards and forwards

Phoneme Frolics

In 1978, Northwestern University film professor Dana Hodgdon created an experimental film based on a phonetic alphabet. He recruited 45 students and faculty members to join him in speaking a single phoneme, which he filmed on 16mm color film. Each phoneme had an example that was an ideological loaded term: revolution, theory, language, Marx, Brecht, and so on. Then, using an optical printer, he excerpted the phonemes and edited them into words and sentences.

Truthfully Speaking

A witty examination of the disjunction between the film's image and its soundtrack. Which voice belongs to which speaker? Each speaker makes certain claims about which voice is his. Later remarks contradict these claims and the viewer is left with a neat logical problem and an acute awareness of filmic illusion and structure.

History

One man's improbable journey through twentieth-century history.

Teagarden

An experiment in synchronized sound

Flat Chested

Amanda, after testing positive for the BRCA gene mutation, has a specific plan to say goodbye to her breasts the weekend before her preventative double mastectomy, but her sister comes to town with a list of her own ideas for the weekend.

Buffalo Bill

the life of buffalo bill cody and the history of cinema

A Prepared Text

Shot in one continuous take and exclusively featuring Dana Hodgon's face and voice as he delivers an ironically edited monologue.

The Whole Film

Screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

A Filmic Relationship

Screened at the Ann Arbor Film Festival

A Woman Is a Woman

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

Totally F***ed Up

Gay, alienated Los Angeles teens have a hard time as their parents kick them out of their homes, they don’t have money, their lovers cheat, and they are harassed by gay-bashers.

House

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip with her friends to visit her aunt's ancestral house in the countryside. The girls soon discover that there is more to the old house than meets the eye.

La Chinoise

A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.