Long Live Holly 2035 is a Cli-Fi film, a speculative documentary, that describes a future for Platform Holly, a decommissioned oil rig just off the SoCal coast, and a future for Exxon’s lunar resource extraction in the looming global environmental catastrophe. The narrative unfolds using time-lapse, computer animation, and AI technology.
An installation with audio and 2 looping videos, 15 minutes
QI Auditorium, Qualcomm Institute, University of California San Diego campus 2024 (single channel version for Getty PST ART’s Embodied Pacific inauguration)
A 26-minute metaphorical narrative in which the character is left alone at his post indefinitely to ponder the existential. In his hopefulness he resorts to a mystical exploration.
Cuzco Underground Cinema Festival (Best Short Experimental Film), Festival International Signes de Nuit, Paris (Night Award), Barcelona International film Festival (nominated for best Experimental Film Award), Roma Short Film Festival, Rome (Finalist for Experimental Film), Toronto Indie Film Festival (Award Winner), Tokyo Short Film Festival (Honorable Mention for Best Experimental)
A 14-minute looping video and audio installation for rectangular space.
Obskuur Ghent Film Festival (Ghent, Belgium), Essex Docfest (Colchester, U.K.), Alter do Chão Film Festival (Santarém, Brazil), Short Long World Festival (Mendoza, Argentina), Mimesis Documentary Festival (Boulder, Colorado) & other international festivals.
Now Streaming – on the Wildlife Conservation Film Festival Channel – Xerb.TV
As a commissioned site-specific installation for the WSOHOIDPS (Ship in the Woods) 2018 music/art event whose theme was environmental concern, the artist hired a fumigation company to cover one of the Felicita County Park’s children’s playgrounds.