#RUSHES

Owl City - Live from Los Angeles

Owl City is the creation of Adam Young, a Minnesota native who started making music at home and building up a fanbase via the internet before breaking worldwide with his global hit Fireflies in the summer of 2009, taken from his Top 10 album Ocean Eyes . The single went to No.1 in both the US and the UK and topped the charts in many other countries. Live From Los Angeles was filmed in high definition at Club Nokia on 21 July 2011 and is the first DVD and Blu-ray release by the band. Track Listing: 1) The Real World 2) Cave In 3) Hello Seattle 4) Angels 5) Swimming In Miami 6) Umbrella Beach 7) I ll Meet You There 8) Plant Life 9) Setting Sail 10) The Bird And The Worm 11) Lonely Lullaby 12) Fireflies 13) Dreams Don t Turn To Dust 14) Kamikaze 15) Meteor Shower 16) Galaxies 17) Alligator Sky 18) Deer In The Headlights 19) Yacht Club 20) How I Became The Sea 21) If My Heart Was A House

Ancient Sunshine

A reflection on anarchism and labor, ANCIENT SUNSHINE marks a path through the struggles of climate activism and coal extractions in the American West.

Shale Raga

Set to an excerpt of Don Cherry's Malkauns from his border-erasing 1975 album, Brown Rice, Shale Raga extracts corporate video toward resistance a la carbon-based capitalist sorcery, in this case EcoShale technology, which is patented by Alberta-based Red Leaf Resoures, Inc. and promises to "revolutionize" oil shale production in the Book Cliffs of eastern Utah.

Your Healing Is Killing Me

Based on the performance manifesto, Your Healing is Killing Me, by Virginia Grise, Bryant and Livingston's video was produced as part of the workshop in the 2018 ImageTextImage program.

ACID REIGN

Combining archival/found footage, treated images and diaristic Hi-8 video, ACID REIGN explores the ongoing battle between human beings' technologies of control and other life forms. In this case, animals re-inhabit a post-human urban landscape.

Copy and Past

Found images and text from online matchmaking sites are anagrammed by poet Dora Malech to produce uncanny digital desires.

7.24.14

2014, silent, 16mm, 4'.