WashMachine Video Current

Science fiction and visual ethnography invoke transmissions of American noise.

WashMachine Productions experiment in audio/video processing of the original
and the copy to reflect upon the dissonance between the personal and the
cultural.

Documenting the crossed signals of street performers, circuit benders,
culture-jammers and a mad scientist from an endless American brain-scape.

2001 -2010
72min*


WASHMACHINE VIDEO CURRENT(sample #1)



WASHAMCHINE VIDEO CURRENT (sample #2)


BRAINTRAIN



Max(Mr. Clown) a narcoleptic amnesiac squatting beneath the New York subway. When Max collages a dream journal that opens a portal to alternate worlds of consciousness, he awakes in a post-apocalyptic wilderness, meeting his kindred spirit; Jasmine(Jennifer Hammaker) together they learn journey is the destination through the realities of illusion. Three-year collaborative project shot on video and 16mm using live action, stop-motion collage, and documentary footage to examine film as thought process.



{Best Experimental and Excellence in Editing Awards, Arlene's Picture Show NYC, 2005}
{Short Film Slam Winner, Pioneer Theater, NYC 2005}
{Official Selection: NYC Anthology FIlm Archives, New Filmmakers Program 2005; West Chester, PA Film Festival, 2005; River's Edge Film Festival 2006; New England Film and Video Festival 2006; Queens Intl. Film Festival 2006; Santa Clarita Street Art Fair 2006; Intl. Festival of Cinema & Technology 2007}

PARADERS



Transcendental editing and improvisational performances combine to create the ultimate visceral experience. Paraders, Max and Jasmine, are strangers linked by telepathic dreams lost in a post-apocalyptic wilderness in which they are forced to confront the harsh reality of their illusions.
2001-2002
15 min. NTSC DV, 16mm

MOSHERS



Renegade-spirit princess, Patti, passes through an underwater portal, and emerges in downtown New York, 1984 Only Stereo the superhero can guide her back home. A WashMachine street fantasy of dancing, death and reincarnation.
2000-2001
10 min. NTSC DV, 16mm