Ben Creech

A freewheeling video essay about Bob Dylan's underexamined work as a filmmaker, based on the book by Michael Glover Smith

a bird struggles for its breakfast.

A Midwest roadtrip symphony on the way to witness totality.

Before Brakhage and Landow, there was Kurt Heyl, a South Side native, musician, and School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s first film student, who briefly held together that school’s experimental film program with spit, spirit, and stubborn grit. Built from Heyl’s own words and images, this video essay kicks off the Chicago Media Histories Project with a rough-edged tribute to a nearly forgotten chapter in underground cinema.

every instance of the word "time" from gilles deleuze's cinema 2: the time-image madlib's episode xvi from medicine show #5 the history of the loop digga, 1990-2000

The persistence of vision, the persistence of the memory of the moving image. The persistence of cinema as a reference for a point in time. ECHOVIDEOPRAXIS.

a reconstruction of a race riot or, which side are you on?

inspired by the provocation of a nuclear threat coinciding with the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing, this supercut examines the history of the American representation of atomic horror in popular films as it becomes a romantic spectacle.

after dante/mccall/duchamp

Everyone’s got one special thing – Dirk Diggler is part of a different Pink Pony Club. A collision between Chappell Roan’s hit song and Mark Wahlberg’s camp acting from Boogie Nights.

an etude of decomposition exploring the shape of the image in a sequence from the film ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND

an adaptation of The Peace of Wild Things, read by Wendell Berry, visually scored to images from the films of William Girdler using sounds gathered from Stevie Nicks' song Wild Heart.

an etude of decomposition, removing sound and examining montage from an iconic Hitchcock sequence.

after shellie fleming // persistence of attention

a match-shot-collision between the final scene of I, Tonya and it's referents in Raging Bull.

A film made with a single dollar bill

A film by Ben Creech shot at Frank Lloyd Wright houses

a supercut of trunk shots from the 60s to today, scored by Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich.

two mythical, sensual, queer investigations of yearning, strung together: FW Murnau's Sunrise (1927) & Jeff Buckley's Grace (1994). there's the moon, asking to stay: it's never over. what is love? what is happiness? what is life? what is peace? when will I find the strength to bring me release?

zombified logos scrambling for recognition