Laurel Nakadate

The story of two sixteen year old girls living in Hollywood, Florida. We follow the girls on a road trip to Tennessee, and watch as their lives become complicated by lies, jealousy and love.

Explores the uncertainty of relationships with strangers.

Artist and director Laurel Nakadate takes us beyond the prepackaged and sanitized world of the Jonas Brothers and Hannah Montana to the true heartland of America and the tween-aged girls that inhabit it. In Kansas City, pop culture is something to be twisted and reshaped, relationships are either nonexistent or refabricated, and time is unstructured and teasing. At the heart of these girls' lives—and this innovative work of cinema—is a quest for understanding and a sense of place. The risks run and solutions posed engender both laughs and tears. The film's amateur actors and nonlinear narrative bring an unnerving, utterly human face to the challenges of young womanhood in a world that would prefer that girls watch the Disney Channel.

An imaginary portrait of the performance artist Bas Jan Ader's final days. Ader was a Dutch performance artist who was lost at sea in 1975, while he was attempting to cross the ocean during a performance called, In Search of the Miraculous. Ader, (Josh Elrod) travels through the desert of the American West, and joins forces with a fever dream companion (John Earl Jelks) and they make their way to the ocean where they perform Ader's final, miraculous performance. The film is set in Southern California.

A part of a short film series by visual artist Laurel Nakadate.

Oops!, 2000, is a video performance featuring the artist in collaboration with strangers she met through chance encounters.