Dance Bitch Dance

(in production)

Dance Bitch Dance is a sci-fiction dark comedy about identity fractures and cultural subversion. Glam yet gritty, the film is a surrealist take on urban youth angst, viral culture, and queer rebellion. Visually and metaphorically, it explores the notion of identity schisms via the twin as both mirror and doppleganger, actors playing multiple selves, and alternate realities colliding with each other.

 

 

 

 

Aria, 2010-2011

TRT 15 min.

Loosely based on Henry Purcell's Dido’s Lament, Aria is an operatic exploration of longing and loss set in present day New York. Melodrama seeps into intimate moments of contemplation, sadness, quiet desperation. Theatricality melds with the everyday as the act of waiting takes on an intense yet ambiguous emotional weight.

 

 

 

 

Tango, 2009

TRT 28 min.

Tango is a collection of vignettes that explore the crossroads between folklore and desire.  The characters’ fantasies are acted out in unexpected ways – with innocence, cruelty, narcissism, and solitude.  Cultural and historical gender structures  are questioned, as feminine "objects of desire" are exposed and redefined.

Juicy Fruit, 2008

TRT 5 min. 30 sec.

Juicy Fruit addresses power dynamics, consumption, fetish, and position of the gaze. Fruit serves as the object electrified; a catalyst of sexuality.  Shot in the first person point of view, the audience takes on the role of administrator and becomes an accomplice in the act of fulfillment.

Joe’s Corner, 2007

TRT 15 min.

In Joe's Corner, androgynous females depict "Little Joe" (Joe Dallesandro), a male hustler character from Warhol's and Morrissey's films Flesh, Trash, and Heat. They are filmed in the moment of waiting for the next "John" exposing mundane yet poignant moments of anxiety, boredom, and vulnerability. Desire becomes seedy, awkward, and tense as the dynamics of sexual currency are addressed.