A fairly ambiguous narrative with hints of challenging and taming an industrial security system.

The Lower East Side tape is a five minute musical documentary look Into the energies, feelings and thoughts the residents of this community have for their neighborhood. This view is coupled with a look at homelessness and other effects of gentrification which are plaguing this community. The tape shows references between the relationship of home, family and community. Lower East Side is a look Into the heart of a neighborhood which has contributed to making New York City unique.

Watching is a story about my childhood – a video about two young sisters during World War Two who venture into a forbidden secret place. Luminous black and white photographs of gardens fading in and out of white, and an original electronic stereo soundtrack create a dreamlike intimacy in the experimental narrative.

Seen In Lanzhou is part of “China Essays,” a video and printmaking project consisting of a collection of visual and audio statements about contemporary China. Seen In Lanzhou is about change and time and the tension between two entities.

A document; ostensibly a tour of mother’s condominium in Florida, which becomes a personal statement on aging, being Jewish in America, the relationship of mother to son, son to mother, and the discovery of what might be considered a low-visibility sub-culture: people living in condominiums. Water becomes “decoration,” parking lots become a “beautiful view of a necessary evil,” an apartment becomes a “real dolls house,” and the viewer is privy to part of a worldview from the proverbial Jewish Mother. She is articulate and seemingly happy with the lifestyle she has chosen, and throws this lifestyle open to our various judgements.

A “diaristic reconstruction… of the discontinuous nature of daily life.” Two men strike out with a goal of climbing a mountain peak – a certain goal with an uncertain path. How do we force our bodies and video recording equipment to realize our ambitions and philosophies? A sweet and meandering tale.