What Happens to the Mountain

A fantastical cinematic journey from a woman's childhood re-enactment of a false Pompeii, through decades, decline and obsession, to the Sibyl's Cave wherein she discovers Vesuvius symbiosis with cinema, memory, and Giambattista Vico’s spiral of time.

A Dream in Red (2020) is a poetic, time traveling meditation on ecological disaster via a hand processed black and white 16mm montage of people in hiding confined in an ambiguous setting and time frame. Jolting from the temporal to the primal experience of the unknown, gradual cues subtly suggest that the setting is Pompeii during the volcanic eruption (as represented in 35mm nitrate film of Vesuvius' most recent eruption in 1944). In the aftermath, a woman without sight feels her way to an uncertain future. Non-binary composer Cee Haines' music project C H A I N E S accompanies the visual work with a dynamic, modular score using live musicians and electronics.

An improvisation, a poem, a song. Inspired by the films of Vincent Grenier, magicians, Rebecca Solnit, and "Yves Klein Speaks!"

Winds of change turn the Wheel of Fortune in Tularosa, New Mexico. Downwind from the atomic bomb site, a man has built a Buddhist shrine to counterbalance the vortex of power and destruction, with a flower in his pocket.

Photographer Brice Bischoff's psychedelic photographs explore time, space, and the history of the moving image in one of the most famous locations in Los Angles California: The Bronson Caves.

A collection of 190-second short films created in response to COVID-19, commissioned by filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler.

The eruption of the artificial volcano on the rock island "Stein" in Wörlitzer Park in Wörlitz.