Suspension is an early piece from 1997, my first solo video work investigating media imagery. 100 still images of various models and celebrities taken from magazines were videotaped at fixed intervals. This material was then distorted and broken down through a process of recording and re-recording, gradually corrupting the analog signal and causing the images to become interwoven and unstable. With an original score improvised in real time by Jason Kleidosty during the final pass of image processing.
Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel.
A technical problem aboard a transatlantic flight forces a plane to land in Porto Santo, the small island of Madeira's archipelago where, according to a legend, Christopher Columbus the 15th century navigator, lived for a while and entertained a sexual relationship with a widow and her nubile daughter.
HBO (in association with the American Film Institute) presents this 1997 anthology, narrated by Liev Schreiber, which looks at sports in cinema from the earliest silent films until the nineties.
A story about Boyong, the master barber, and Apolinario, Boyong's nephew and apprentice. They man their shabby barbershop, dreaming of hitting the big time someday.
