Sakura Genesis

”My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.” - Edith Wharton

The faded and fragmented memories of a relationship that's perpetually under sedation.

A structuralist slow-burn investigation thriller. In a high-class neighbourhood in Rio De Janeiro a young woman is murdered. Detectives are contacted but the killer continues around.

Beloved are those who stay at home.

A non-linear portrait of healing.

A baptism of love.

The second cycle of a new life.

The third film in the seasonal cycle: winter. The home changes.

A tour of Villa Romana and its history.

Jo, an addict-musician living in Seattle, encounters a reclusive vampire, Mary. After an early morning tragedy, the two navigate the fragmented and faded memories of their sedated love affair.

An up-and-coming television actor relapses and holes themselves up in their Brooklyn apartment as they encounter a revolving door of characters.

A DJ trio passes the day while waiting for a movie premiere.

An examination of the feud between John Wayne Murdoch and Orin Veidt.

A dialogue between the body and the spirit.

The energy, sensations, and signature colors of 1990s All Japan Pro Wrestling coalesce and explode within a vibrating, flickering, memory-like time capsule of the first ever Triple Crown victories of the Four Pillars of Heaven: Mitsuharu Misawa (green), Toshiaki Kawada (yellow), Akira Taue (red), & Kenta Kobashi (orange).

Encounters in Light is the poetic documentation of two artists, friends, and lovers. The film eschews any biographical structure and instead looks at the ways these two artists are bound by time and light. Lawrence Jordan and Joanna McClure have extensive bodies of work between them. The film interweaves Joanna’s poetry, Lawrence’s films, personal interviews, and emotive imagery to produce a sensory engagement with a long lasting friendship and artistic practice. An understanding of mortality is ever present and the film let’s that feeling permeate throughout. How does one relate to years of love, friendship, and art? How does it resonate in the present moment? In the film, there is a sense of boundlessness and understanding that indeed, time dissolves all boundaries until there is only the possibility of light.