arc
Directing
Biography
arc refers to a process rather than an author. a curve within a void which makes something momentarily visible. material elements used to investigate immaterial states. framing the space of encounter as a site of unfixed ritual and sensory research. arc work has been presented at The Lab, San Francisco Cinematheque, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Mass Art Film Society (Boston), NDSM Treehouse (Amsterdam) and L’Abominable (Paris/La Courneuve), among other venues.
Known For
A film concerned with the chaotic sphere of disengagement invoked by the threatened subsumption of the sensitive and vibrational biorhythm into the cold and regulated logic of algorithmic capitalist automation. Explored through abyssal bridges of language. Towards the conspiratorial, intersubjective, and irregular oscillations of life as resistance.
breathing
A cosmically devotional portrait of the great Sun Ra Arkestra led by Marshall Allen, performing at Victoria Theatre in San Francisco.
the arc of the sun
A Pythagorean elegy for a diffused corporality and a sustaining presence.
broken symmetry
super 8mm silent
lost sight
denied corporeal passage across a fictional demarcation between two imperialist entities occupying stolen land, photochemical agents are smuggled in absentia as autonomous elements of outside agitation. there is no outside.
no outside (NO BORDERS ON STOLEN LAND)
No description available.
s/x
The bloom of interior at the point of exterior departure. An unfinished reconfiguration process.
window
A California portrait. pixelation study of a myth image/image myth. Palm trees are non-native to california, and their roots span equal parts as far underground as the trees tower above the earth. Within this, an overlapping symbology.
Palms
No description available.
Within the prism
A film made in collaboration with Sophia Wang. Originally developed as an intermedia/movement piece in 2014, which circles around the works of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha. The word image, the breath of speech, the gesture of movement, looked back on from ‘before name’, ‘between name’ and beyond classification as purely didactic vessels.
(sans)(image)
‘…beneath the perceptible form of sound is hidden a silent essence. It is from this, this crucial point at which the kernel of the perceptible has yet to choose to be sound or light or something else… it is from this very essence that sound draws its ordering force.’
conical signal
A dual projector performance with live accompanying sound. The images – two film loops of thin black and white lines – begin to dance, bend and break through the crystal prisms of refracted light.
infinite column
A parallel descent/ascent/descent in search of a miraculous unknown.
katabasis
the luminous interval creates a parallel light upon extinguishing. an internal radiation of the elements absorbed. image and afterimage. the crystalline impermanence of the phosphene. the scratch as wound of time, history inscribed within the image, revealing light. the frame as the infinite fragment of a world hovering outside of time. a window on to eternity. the forces that remain after the passage of the vessel.
ascensions
A lunar ritual observed in rain and fog.
year of the rabbit
16mm, single channel
ailleurs
[uh-kuhlt, ok-uhlt] transitive verb : to shut off from view or exposure : cover, eclipse
protection ritual
The occurrence of chance collisions in form through the intervention of the xerox machine on emulsion-less film.
hexagram
An expanded cinema piece drawing on intersubjective spatial resonance and forces entwined within the earth’s electromagnetic field.