2008. 70 min. HD video.
"A beautifully shot, very detailed film that is filled with unreality and symbols." — Rotterdam International Film Festival
OH MY SOUL is a film about isolation, despair, and the miracle of empathy. Everyday and spiritual realities are explored through a dream-like progression of events including grocery shopping, oversleeping, working, hallucinating, nervous breakdown, death, rebirth and a lunar eclipse.
Abigail (Catiah Li) is a young woman in her twenties who has recently lost her parents and moved to Chicago to share an apartment with her estranged Aunt (Jane Hu), to whom she pays rent and rarely speaks. Abigail is troubled by sleeplessness and nocturnal visits from apparitions. When her Aunt suddenly dies, the distinction between reality and dream dissolves. The only person who understands her is Hector (Gonzalo Escobar), a young man from Colombia with a fatal illness who's lost all hope and just needs a place to stay...
2008. 70 min. HD video.
"A beautifully shot, very detailed film that is filled with unreality and symbols." — Rotterdam International Film Festival
OH MY SOUL is a film about isolation, despair, and the miracle of empathy. Everyday and spiritual realities are explored through a dream-like progression of events including grocery shopping, oversleeping, working, hallucinating, nervous breakdown, death, rebirth and a lunar eclipse.
Abigail (Catiah Li) is a young woman in her twenties who has recently lost her parents and moved to Chicago to share an apartment with her estranged Aunt (Jane Hu), to whom she pays rent and rarely speaks. Abigail is troubled by sleeplessness and nocturnal visits from apparitions. When her Aunt suddenly dies, the distinction between reality and dream dissolves. The only person who understands her is Hector (Gonzalo Escobar), a young man from Colombia with a fatal illness who's lost all hope and just needs a place to stay...
2008. 70 min. HD video.
"A beautifully shot, very detailed film that is filled with unreality and symbols." — Rotterdam International Film Festival
OH MY SOUL is a film about isolation, despair, and the miracle of empathy. Everyday and spiritual realities are explored through a dream-like progression of events including grocery shopping, oversleeping, working, hallucinating, nervous breakdown, death, rebirth and a lunar eclipse.
Abigail (Catiah Li) is a young woman in her twenties who has recently lost her parents and moved to Chicago to share an apartment with her estranged Aunt (Jane Hu), to whom she pays rent and rarely speaks. Abigail is troubled by sleeplessness and nocturnal visits from apparitions. When her Aunt suddenly dies, the distinction between reality and dream dissolves. The only person who understands her is Hector (Gonzalo Escobar), a young man from Colombia with a fatal illness who's lost all hope and just needs a place to stay...
2007. 12 min. HDV.
YX is an allegory about cities, bodies, fluid media, privation and loss, in which hermetic spaces create hermetic narratives. Shot in 2007 in Chicago with performances by Evan Scott Rubin and Jeff Harms, production assistance by Sam Wagster, Britt Willey, Matthew Kellard, Chris Vlasses and Lizzy Lynette Vlasses. Music by Vaughan Williams and Paysage d'hiver.
Sonnet en yx
by Stéphane Mallarmé
Her pure nails sprung up exalting their onyx,
Anxiety, this midnight, bearing light, sustains,
In twilight many dreams burnt up by the Phoenix
Whose smoky ashes no sepulchral urn contains
Atop the sideboards, in the empty room: no ptyx,
That voided toy of vibrant nonsense, left inside,
(Because the Master’s gone to draw the tears from Styx
With that exclusive object wherein Naught takes pride.)
In vacant north seen through the casement frames, a gold
May agonize at times, within the setting, to behold
Fire-breathing unicorns…
2006. 26min 57sec. DV.
CDR-DV1:AITCM (The Center for Decorporative Research - Demonstration Video 1: April is the Cruelest Month) demonstrates the transfiguration of subjectivity in the context of a staged containment of an unknown chemical disaster — following the five phases of organic toxification:
Exposure
Toxicokinesis
Toxicodynamism
Toxicogenesis
Mutagenesis
The symbolic, aesthetic and ethical positions of Facilitator, Technician, Trainee, Victim and Viewer become, through an application of Gestalt logic, parallel entry points to the understanding of the apparatus of forced subjectivity. As the song says, "Can't you see? You belong to me."
Technicians: Tif Bullard, D'arcy French-Myerson, Renée Reynolds
Victim: Joseph Cashiola
Facilitator: Ross Cashiola
Trainees: Matthew Kellard, Nora Jean Lange, Robert Voyer, Britt Willey
Original Music: Sam Wagster
2007. 3 min 26 sec. DV.
Spellbreaker is a music video for the song of that name by Ross Cashiola, from his album North of the Bees. The video consists of original video shot in Chicago during a thunderstorm and found footage.
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