Flow

2005, 16mm, color, sound, 6 minutes

A woman chases the elusive, fleeting spectre of her unborn child before a molten and turbulent sea. The triangulation between mother and son, the ocean body, and the materiality of the film medium is encouraged by numerous bacterial and photochemical techniques such as ray-o-gramming, processing in seawater and urine, chemical toning and reticulation, mulching film in seaweed and sand, and under-water photography. Sound design by Jim Batcho. Originally presented as a 2-projector, live performance piece.

Perfect images, like perfect waves
cannot be grasped
only glimpsed
in the flow of liquid and light.

Flow: Multiple-Projection Performance Text
A filmmaker wrestles with his creative flow on the lip of the Pacific

Awards

  • Kodak Award Cinematography
  • Rosebud Award Experimental
    CSU Media Arts Festival, Channel Islands, CA

Screenings

  • Ann Arbor Film Festival, MI
  • JFK University, Berkeley, CA – Balancing Perspectives; East Asian Influences in Contemporary Art
  • Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema, San Francisco, CA