Genres: experimental

  • Searching for Justice

    Searching for Justice is a thought provoking short film by Tasha Brown that delves into the lack of fairness and equality, which is deemed insignificant in many societal norms. Fluid eclectic movements of dance are interwoven with the illuminating original spoken word written by poet Kells James.

  • DHPG Mon Amour

    A Super-8, home-style movie which explores the radical advances made by PWA’s (People With AIDS), in developing their own health care. Focusing precisely on the ordinary minutiae of David Conover and Joe Walsh’s daily life, DHPG Mon Amour shows the struggle for self-determination and control over one’s own body and resonates on an intimate and more broadly political level. DHPG Mon Amour was featured at the 1990 New Directors Series at the Museum of Modern Art and The Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival. The film has been exhibited at festivals, museums and theaters throughout the U.S.,…

  • Traces / آثار

    In the midst of the rubble of a torn building, a reel of film. An unlikely unraveling of queer bodies taking shape and form, while the war-torn city around and its spectacle of toxic masculinity glitches and disintegrates.

  • Plato’s Cave

    Shadows on the wall and Einstein’s mental musings form a short meditation on the nature of reality. With voice-over quotes from Albert Einstien querying the distiction between the physical and the metaphysical, “Plato’s cave” continues Sternberg’s filmic wonderings about the nature of reality: temporal, ephemeral, tangible, ecanescent, ghostly, haptic, remembered, dreamt, momentary, eternal – the shadow and the light, the quick and the dead.

  • touch

    touch (ing), —(ed): Feel, move, affect, be in contact, tangent to, in relation; injure slightly; slightly crazy “My window tonight casts light out onto the snow, I cast from my eye a glance, a touchless touch…” Jorie Graham, “To 2040” We look, we touch, we make connections sometimes, and sometimes we proceed by groping blindly forward… Note that “touch and “touch : BE/longing” are companion pieces. They may be shown individually; or one after the other; or together simultaneously side by side. One aspect of these works for me was the division of all digital video in one and all…

  • BEWARE

    BEWARE takes sound bites from the 1961 anti-homosexual propaganda film Boys Beware and flips it on its head. The hacked-up narration serves as the voice over to a barrage of glitched intimacies making the homosexual monster more fun than frightening.

  • seeds are meant to disperse

    seeds are meant to disperse (2015-ongoing) is an ongoing project where I grow, save and share seeds. Seeds take time to grow, to harvest, to prepare, and to share—an act that I see as gift as much as necessity and survival. As such, the seeds are offered as trade or gift, in an attempt to encourage and support alternative systems of exchange. As the seeds are gifted and grown they are meant to help others imagine building a world different from the trajectory it is currently on. As an ongoing and forever growing project, I continue to adapt and rethink…

  • Green Flag, The

    Three-strip Technicolour type separation-printing (“subtractive”), which has archival as well as artistic potential. A black-and-white intermediate was made for each of the three emulsion layers (cyan, magenta, yellow) in an old auto-racing documentary; the exciting scene is repeated to show six basic colour variations in which the green flag and grass turn purple, orange, red, and blue.

  • connecting thru grasses

    Looking to prairie grass ecosystems, as well as the technologies that map and reflect the diminishing biome, connecting thru grasses considers how we might both map and define prairie boundaries anew. Considering how satellites passing overhead reflect an image of the earth (and thus of ourselves) back to us, and how these images shape or mis-shape our understanding of the land and our relationship to it, the work looks closer at TERRA, a research satellite that has circled the earth since 1999 constructing images for use in the monitoring of environmental and climate data. http://cbattle.com/connecting-thru-grasses/

  • BAD STARS

    Beginning with the root of the term disaster – from the Greek (dus-) ‘bad’ and (aster), ‘star’ this project considers disaster from an astronomical sense, imagining multiple scales of disaster as causing disruption and temporary disorientation on a planetary scale. Humans have looked to the movement of stars as a way to make sense of the terrestrial for millennia, developing elaborate systems to read celestial bodies as a way to explain and predict events on earth. Studying the stars in order to discover more about the galaxy, astronomy tells us that we are in fact born of the stars, made…