Genres: experimental

  • Spark

    When the universe began it erupted into a vast array of fundamental particles such as neutrons, electrons and protons. These particles decayed or combined over time to create everything that our senses perceive today while framing all the we desire and feel. Spark definition: An abrupt electrical discharge that occurs when a sufficiently high electric field creates an ionized, electrically conductive channel. Image description: Silhouette of a person’s head against a field of green with sparks of white. Their hair is haloed by the light.

  • Transit – Destination

    Cities are where people tend to nest. This is where we can engage in the greatest range of pursuits while being provided a reasonable likelihood of day to day sustenance. While not apparent for the most part, cities require far flung resources making them islands or something akin to a space station. Cities are also de facto barriers for many other animal species, especially those that require migration routes to survive. Note: The voices are Kent Tate and a friendly passerby engaging in a conversation about birds while he was filming some office towers.

  • Focal point

    We live in a holographic world. It is a busy, busy place with much to do, with not enough time to do it. We also live in a world where a host of entities are vying for our attention. With so much competition to retain our gaze a clutter threshold is a very real hazard. I have always been sensitive to movement. There is either too much movement or too little movement, so I try to seek a balance, or at least make efforts to set aside moments where I can calm my overstimulated nervous system. I am partial to…

  • Wave

    Tender memories of a first gay embrace, of shock and exhilaration-and disavowal-animated against the waves of a deep blue lake. This animated biography tells the story of the artists’ first encounter with another boy. This was not the way his life was planned and he hoped that this feeling would eventually pass. He waited years until he finally met someone who would change his life forever.

  • For Your Pleasure

    A young actress from Slovenia performs in front of the camera for several hours, without direction, script, or any other instruction. The only source of material that she can rely on is herself. By addressing the camera eye as a tool of desubjectivization, she questions the expectations that are applied on her by the visual regime, and refuses to identify with constructed fantasies projected on her. An intense display of affects and attitudes related to the system of categorization and precarious work, challenges the viewer as well as the filmmaker.

  • Evidence of Wind

    The filmmaker impulsively starts capturing the image and sound of wind. He realizes the only way to capture the wind is to show, instead, trees in motion. The limitation becomes the motif for philosophical contemplation of how we understand the nature of truth that can be learned from something else than the truth itself. The assemblage of the meditative narration, electronic music and the images of swaying trees, leads the journey through a paradoxical, yet thought-provoking experience. The enduring time reveals the moments of reflecting on our belief in the world in a time of uncertainty.

  • Woven Account

    After the artist’s own gaybashing in the Bay Area, they wondered what it would take for their story to make the news. Allegra went on to research reported instances of hate violence targeting LGBTQIA2s+ individuals in the archives of 16 local print and online newspapers. After going through nearly two years of archives – the artist discovered only 33 articles detailing individual hate crimes or stories concerning hate crimes legislation for the broader LGBTQIA2s+ community in the Bay Area. Where they could get their hands on the physical news articles detailing hate crimes, the artist spun that newsprint by hand…

  • Ghost Story

    Within a single Chinatown room, we see fragments of the lives of the Chinese immigrants who lived there over a span of sixty years – a bachelor in the 1890s, a small family group in the 1920s, a young post-war couple with children in the 1940s, and a grandfather with his two Americanized grandsons in the 1950s. The characters are ghosts, transparent as they fade in and out, mixing their lives and family stories. As these ghosts occupy the same room for one last time, their dialogues are interwoven and always return to the subject of ghosts, a strong part…

  • Detour

    An experimental film which uses metaphor and simile. Through comedic intention the viewer is placed on a journey with the fillmmaker, following in the tradition of Maya Deren, where the filmmaker himself is transposed into a labyrinth of visuals to express a coming-of-age or a transformation. Shot on a phone with a shoestring budget, Tolyak attempts to convey a message just with things around him and through what he finds on the road.

  • Akedellic

    An unfinished experimental film about the horrors of war. sound will be added.