Films

Landscape: Los Angeles
running time 2:11, HD video, 2011
A late-night meditation by the roadside above Mulholland Drive, this film looks at the topography of Los Angeles, a place where nature and culture are hybridized. Crickets chirp and the wind rustles the trees outside the perimeter of armed response security, and the city's panoramic surface seems tactile. Text by Shanna Maurizi, sound by Julia Shirar.

Park and Washington
running time 2:31, HD video, 2010
Construction on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway has created a sanctuary made of plastic tarps under the elevated highway. The fragments of dreams sift through the unexpected stillness. Text by Shanna Maurizi, score by Pamela Ausejo.

Apartment 4A (night)
running time 1:30, video, 2006
This piece is a visual meditation on the subway trains which run outside my window in Brooklyn. The sparks from the tracks light up the apartment with an eerie blue glow. It is also a tribute to Helios Creed and the band Chrome, as a reprise of their early 80’s subway videos.

Landscape 40th and Wattling
running time 4:15, 16mm, 2003
This film is a portrait of an East Oakland neighborhood, in fragments generated by hearsay. With 16mm test reels, it depicts a barren landscape grown wild at the outskirts of the city, defined by freeways, railroad tracks, and police tape. Music by Mark Growden.

SF Diary Day/Night
running time 7:30, video, 2004
Rather than a record of people and events, this piece is more of an analysis of an individual’s experience of time. Time as experienced by the camera has been condensed by time lapse, and time as experienced by the viewer has been manipulated (shortening of time at night, lengthening or dragging out of time during the day.) I was interested in what visual images serve as chapter markers in the passage of hours, and in the perception of daylight time to night time. Audio tracks consist of automatic camera functions; as the camera turns off and on random audio recordings are made.

Retrace
running time 12:55, video, 2007
Two women set out on the road to find their best friend, who disappeared 10 years before. One of them has a camera. Stakeouts, cheap hotels and gun ranges carry them through the South, as they re-visit friendship and loss. A soundtrack of early '90s San Francisco bands drifts off the scratchy car speakers, lending a connection to their past. Soundtrack by Stone Fox, Dirty Excuse (former Lost Goat), Pillows, and Ain't. With Sofy Low.