Selected Experimental Films & Photography
PLAYGROUND AT THE ABANDONED CHAPEL (2022-ongoing)
Series of site-specific installations and performances for camera
Playground at the Abandoned Chapel is an ongoing series of events, acts and performances for camera, captured at the various abandoned locations in Antelope Valley, California.
This series of videos features live arts staged for camera by artists like late playwright and poet Robert Patrick, multi-media and performance artist Jason Jenn (both singing and reciting their own poems and poetry), and performance and textile artist Chuck Hohng dancing and wearing his original garments.
The Theory of Romance (2020)
Experimental short film
duration: 7 minutes
The Theory of Romance...features a series of short poems recited on the beach written and performed by retired playwright, Robert Patrick. It’s a delightfully sweet treat that takes some inspiration from the poetic cinema of James Broughton, a touch of vaudeville, and the classical poetic fragments of Sappho. It is purposely out of sync with modern times as well as its dilemmas, but the push and pull of love is timeless.
Robert Patrick began writing verse in college in 1955 and has continued intermittently for 65 years. His poems, romantic or humorous, have been published in many dozens of American magazines. His two books of poems are available at Lulu.com
SUBURBIA STORY (2020)
Experimental short film
duration: 11 minutes
Suburbia Story is a short black and white experimental film that mixes performance art and painted images to create a surreal dream-like story set in an unrefined suburban Los Angeles neighborhood. By twisting references to familiar iconographic images from art, history and religion, the film’s tableaus create an unsettling, alternative mythology that reflects contemporary socio-political dynamics. It expresses a queer narrative about the expulsion and fall from grace, but that still invites audiences to interpret in their own personal way.
Tableaux Vivants (2017-ongoing)
Actions for camera
A Collection of events, performances, and installations staged for the camera.
A tableau vivant (French for "a living picture") from the historical point of view is a static scene featuring one or more actors or models. They are stationary and silent images, usually with costumes and/or props created on a theatrical stage. In that sense this series of digital photography titled TABLEAUX VIVANTS (plural) is truly using the same concept of representing life, but with a unique twist of having main characters represented through drawings or other forms of art, on an environmental stage. The photos are part of an open, experimental narrative about life, nature, and a spiritual journey - with new variations being created to add to the series.
Traveler (2020)
Duration: 18 minutes
TRAVELER is an 18-minute cinematic experience of the Great American West by Los Angeles and Serbian based visual artist and director Vojislav Radovanović. This non-narrative film is a poetic and meditative visual pilgrimage through scenic landscapes revealing the beauty, fragility, and power of nature as well as human influence on the ecosystem.