PHOS FATE FIRE BIRD (2023, 6:02)

WIP

Working through carceral imaginaries, The Five Year Plan sets a trip to Cuban revolutionary sites in conversation with Gitmo, former Vice President Dick Cheney and a terrorist artist named Jeremy Levenstein.

On the Matter of Blue Lives (2020)

Cyanotype experiment, in process, as part of Kait Lain’s cyanotype Fall 2020 workshop.

Materials:
Lettraset transfer
Black Sharpie
Orange mask
Goya salt
Pepper spray
Cut-up mutual visual aid
Antifa Dust

GIF here

Ancient Sunshine (2020, 19:28)

World Premiere, Sheffield Doc Fest, 2021
US Premiere, Mimesis Documentary Festival
Camden International Film Festival
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Buffalo International Film Festival
Glimmerglass Film Days

A fossil cast in plastic, an artificial plateau, classic cars running on the fumes of the nation.

Utah Tar Sands Resistance has been fighting experimental mining in the Tavaputs Plateau for almost a decade, setting up camp every summer in sight of heavy equipment and construction crews. The film asks, how might the concept of horizontalism be applied to the physical horizon, its decimation, and to capital’s propensity for vertical extrication? Ancient Sunshine interweaves the endless remaking of the Western landscape with labor history, reflections on anarchist organization, and interspecies economies, such as animal husbandry.

Ancient Sunshine consists of interviews with the Utah Tar Sands Resistance primary organizers and other Utah land protectors, and sets their voices in and against an industrialized landscape. The film draws on a surprising array of present and historical voices, drawing attention to the role of resistance and kinship during times of threat and extinction.

Toward a poetic solidarity, toward a formal politics.

If Attica Is Still Blue (2020)

September 9 was the anniversary of the 1st day of the Attica Prison Revolt.

If people are in prison, then no one is free.

#Abolition #AtticaMeansFightBack

Enormous thanks to Jason Geistweidt for coding. Click here and press play.

Alexa, What is Decolonize? (2020)

A deceptively simple lo-fi video in which a not-so simple question playfully lays bare AI’s challenges in reckoning with decolonization.

Yoga Goat Nom Nom, 2019

1T9I1M5E2O0U1T7, 2017/2019

A computational correction to the historical record, updating the 1915 screening of D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation in the White House for the flurry of executive order signings upon Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017.

Watch here

Shale Raga, 2016

Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, British Columbia

#RUSHES, 2012 - 2016, 16mm, audience discussion

Microlights Cinema, Milwaukee
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo
CUNY Hunter, Third Work Symposium
Harvard University, In Media Res Symposium
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Union Docs, Brooklyn
Nightingale Cinema, Chicago
Spectra, Kansas City
Eye and Ear Clinic, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Distrito X, Distrital, Cinemateca Nacional, Mexico City
Meanwhile… on Time and Streets, Galician Center for the Image Arts, Spain 

"Experimental filmmakers with no obligation to spoon feed the public fared better in documenting Occupy in a manner that proved more meditative and avoided reducing the movement to a list of talking points.  The two versions of the film deploy contrasting reflexive strategies designed to challenge standard representations of dissent and on-the-spot reportage of street activism. 

While there’s a tongue-in-cheek aspect to Livingston’s self-indictment, the cadences of his manifesto also undermine the pieties of “active spectatorship” and the hallowed entity known as the “emancipated spectator”...  the film’s dialogue with its audience, and with itself, is close to the kind of “auto-ethnography” that David Graeber proposes as a riposte to the vanguardist sensibility."

- Richard Porton, author of Film and the Anarchist Imagination, second edition (forthcoming)

7.24.14, 2014, silent, 16mm

Copy + Past, 2013

Marfa Poetry Festival, curated by Nick Twemlow
Microlights Cinema, Milwaukee
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles
Union Docs, Brooklyn
Nightingale, Chicago

Barbarella.Queen.of.the.Galaxy.DVDRip.Xvid.JL, 2011

Acid Reign, 2011

FRAMES PER SECOND: Secrets, Plug Projects, Kansas City
Chicago Underground Film Festival

Under Foot & Overstory, 2005, 16mm

 

Distributed by the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Jury Prize, New York Underground Film Festival, 2005
Best of Iowa, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival, 2005
Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, 2005

Flaherty NYC at Anthology Film Archives, programmed by Penny Lane
Society for Cinema and Media Studies annual conference, Philadelphia, curated by Jennifer Wild
Free Speech Television
Cornell Cinema
The Machine in the Forest, film series at Nasher Art Museum, Duke University
Association for the Study of Literature and Environment. "Being in the World, Living with the Land."  
Eyeing Nature, Pacific Film Archives
Lillian Gish Film Theatre, Bowling Green, OH
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival
New York Underground Film Festival
Ann Arbor Film Festival    
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
PDX Film Festival.  Portland, Ore.
Athens International Film and Video Festival.  Athens, OH
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE)

Lake Affect, 2007

Available as part of Electronic Arts Intermix’s multi-DVD Experimental Television Center set

Krowswork Gallery, Oakland
International Film Festival Breda.  Netherlands.
MAGA Macon Film and Video Festival
PDX
Ann Arbor Film Festival
ICE, Iowa City
Three Rivers Film Festival.
Cine-X Showcase, Olympia Film Festival.
Jury Mention, Independent Exposure 08, 2008
Cornell Cinema
24/7 DIY Video Summit, Los Angeles, curated by Eric Saks.
New York Underground Film Festival
Onion City

Mood Ring, 2008

Lake Affect, silent, 2001

Second Prize, Peripheral Produce Invitational, 2001
 

Don't Panic - It's Organic, 1999-2003, 16mm double projection, 35mm slides, tape cassette

July Fix, 2006, 16mm

Director’s Citation, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, 2007
Ross Media Center, Lincon, NE
Cinema Project.  Portland, Ore.
Austrian Film Museum, Vienna
Flying Sixteen!, Rotterdam International Film Festival, curated by Marie Losier
Recent selections from TIE, SF Cinematheque
New York Underground Film Festival
The International Experimental Cinema Exposition (TIE)

The Two Boys:, 1999

Artistic Director's Award for Poet of the Cinema, Cinematexas, 2000
Director's Choice, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, 2000.  

Virginia Film Festival
Superannuate, Aurora Picture Show, Houston
Lost and Found, curated by Alison LaTendresse for the 40th Ann Arbor Film Festival
False Ocean, Jaraf Video, NY, NY
Homeport, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The Charm Bracelet, Portland, Ore.
Waterfront Tugboat Project, NY, NY
Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago        
Pleasure Dome, Toronto
Multiplex V, Minneapolis
30th Rotterdam International Film Festival, Netherlands.
Hi Mom! Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
Seattle Underground Film Festival
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Millennium Films
University of Colorado
Rutgers University
Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley

The End, 1998

Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery
Squeaky Wheel, Buffalo, NY
Mirror/Mirror, Momenta Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Critical Histories, Apex Art Curatorial Project, NY, NY
School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Multiplex V, Minneapolis
 

Every Angel Is Terrible, 1994

Auto Focus, 1997

Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, OH
Peripheral Produce, Portland, Ore
 

The $80 Dollar Brick, 1996

Current Undercurrent, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Independent Exposure, Seattle
Donnell Library, New York City
Ohio Independent Film Festival

Created through a grant and mentorship program through Film/Video Arts, New York