Directing
Cal Fire helicopter flyover
"... plays alongside Toney Merritt's arch and elliptical humor, (CONQUEST PIECE & ASIAM, moving from enigma to impishness to silent farce)." - Calvin Ahlgren, San Francisco Examiner
An eternal flame.
A dance. When magic is a verb. The Beginning of the End. The End of the Beginning.
A film by Toney W. Merritt
4891 is a political 1984-ish sci-fi paranoid film like everyone made at some point in the '60s.
A self-portrait of Merritt's "cowboy" phase, tongue firmly planted in cheek.
"A film made from my old studio apartment on Telegraph Hill. A portrait of sorts."
Revolution and other movements.
A short film by Toney Merritt
A look at how the director perceives people sometimes see him, and he them.
A film by Toney W. Merritt.
Another installment of Toney Merritt’s Fragment series, The Birds and The Beasts is a hypnotizing meditation on nature and sounds that combines timelapse footage of a bird feeder with the trail camera footage of a mountain lion shot in real time. Set to a self-composed piece drawn from Merritt’s sound library, The Birds and The Beasts’ unique rhythm and two-part structure captures what it means to live in the wilderness through juxtaposing the power and majesty of the cougar with the spirit and freedom of the birds. A fragment of the seemingly mundane reality, the birds and the mountain lion turn into something far more meaningful: a reflection on multispecies relations and our peaceful co-existence with animals.
16mm experimental short film starring Toney Merritt.
Turkey vultures in flight this morning, 4/25/2020, over Toney Merritt’s home in Northern California.
