Disfigured Flames is an experimental 16mm short film. If you’d like to see this film it is currently not publically availible, please contact me and I’d be happy to share it with you.
Runtime: 5 minutes.
2023
Screened at Trans|ations: Seattle Trans Film Festival in 2024, Northwest Film Forum in South Sound Experimental Film Festival in 2023, and Enby Party: Lifecycles in 2023.
In Disfigured Flames, a white pigeon is sacrificed. Vein-like white patterns animated in the film are the entirety of headlines from 1920s newspaper clippings about a Trans man anmed Robery Gaffney in Seattle which were screen printed directly on 16mm film leader.
Using direct filmmaking, I scratch weaving rows of lines and shapes into the emulsion of the film itself using a drypoint needle, drawing and painting directly on the film with India Ink.
I shot the film in 16mm black & white on a Bolex movie camera, I eco-processed the 16mm film in soy milk resulting in a milky, cloudy and bubbly texture on the film itself.
What is Art?
Methods: botanicollage, scratching, drawing, taping on found footage and multi-colored leader, taping 35mm film on 16mm clear leader, and more.
Altering celluloid by scratching found footage and colored leader. When watching a 16mm non-camera animation projection, 24 frames fly past you per second. Each viewing is a new experience because your eyes can’t catch everything each time. Much like one of my inspirations, Francis Bacon, I explore my masochistic desires and draw inspiration from Avante-garde films.
Clay Pals
A short claymation I made around age 8, the only surviving stop-motion video I made at this age of dozens.
A group of friends who dance together get chewed out by a girl.
approx. 2007
