Kai Swanson

A comedic webseries following a group of millennials who develop a friendship after one tinder swipe right.

In the city of Gotass, one billionaire hero rises with his cheeky antics and brawny behind to keep crime at bay. Buttman, with his bottomless courage and a rear that won't quit, battles noxious gases, sinister foes, and medical mishaps, all while navigating the political and stinky, socioeconomic side of crime-fighting.

A young woman is catapulted into a tense game of cat-and-mouse across LA when she confronts a stylish stranger meticulously sorting through her garbage.

By taking TRI-X black & white reversal 16mm film and capturing 900 different stills from NC-17 rated films through a 35mm photo camera and projecting the images at the standard cinematic frame rate of 24 frames per second, Freytag’s Pyramid of Climactic Light interrogates the relationship between the individual film frame and the audience’s perception of ideology projected from the relationship between each frame. The images that I selected were bodies of individuals in non-violent and sentimental acts of love and friendship.