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Newtown Creek

In Newtown Creek , the camera takes on the perspective of a piece of debris floating in the murky waters of New York City’s Newtown Creek, the site of a catastrophic oil spill in which upwards of 17 million gallons of oil leaked from nearby petroleum storage facilities over several decades. In the subaqueous world of the Newtown Creek, nature exists in a state of surrender. Fish and plant life have been largely been replaced by human artifacts. Billowing clouds of industrial detritus, plastic ...

Dream House Selected scenes

Dream House is an experimental documentary about desire, memory and loss. After happening upon a derelict Victorian house, a young couple becomes obsessed with moving in and starting a life there. After unsuccessful attempts to gather information about the property from city agencies, they break into the house only to find a drug-addicted man and woman already living inside, among the abandoned possessions of the house’s former owners. Mutual alarm soon gives way to a shared sense of awe, as t...

A Believer is a Doer

A Believer is a Doer ;explores relationships between faith and action and presents an alternate view of religious fundamentalism by evoking the transcendental nature of Pentecostal Holiness serpent handling.Filmed at the Church of the Lord Jesus in West Virginia, the video footage isolates moments of spiritual reward while alluding to the mystical forces to which the Serpent Handlers surrender during church services.Images of congregants anointed by the Holy Spirit are projected onto a translu...

Peter Shapiro

umbilical Discord

Scavengers

Pattern Drill Number Nine

Naked

The Serpents and the Saints

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Down Lover

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