LIVE ACTION TO ANIMATIONS TO MIXTURES, MY WORK TENDS TO FOCUS ON THE POETIC.
Some Laureled and some not, I make these films to for my own personal fulfillment and to continue honing my skills.
"UNCLE HARRY´S TOMBSTONE"
I recorded my father John P. Tuschen reciting his poem "Uncle Harry´s Tombstone" at the end of his stint as the poet laureate of Madison, Wisconsin- this is my visual interpretation of his words.
On it´s festival rounds, it traveled from Skopje, Macedonia to Barcelona, Spain, from Vilnius & Kaunas, Lithuania to Cork, Ireland, to name just a few.
Music by Calde Ramírez (Music Komite).
Versión subtitulado en Español aquí.
"UNTITLED"
Based on a poem written by Leslie Lyons
3:01 min.
3:01 min.
This film just began it's own festival circuit adventure starting at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival - Münster/Berlin, Germany.
Photography by Patricio Musalem & myself. Music by Angela McJunkin.
Versión subtitulado aquí.
"LOVE LETTER TO A DRUG DEALER"
Poem written & read by me
6:19 min.
A meditation on the pain of waiting and desire, and the inverse reactions to desperation.
This film just began it's own festival circuit adventure starting at the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival - Berlin, Germany.
Versión subtitulado en Español aquí.
"NOKODEK" - “The Foreigner”
1:53 min.
A compilation of some of the short video loops I created for live mixing and projection at the 2nd annual NOKODEK Video Art Festival organized by Banda Bat in Donostia-San Sabastián, Spain.
Music by: Suckafish P. Jones
"BOTH"
An autodidactic thesis project
5:24 min.
5:24 min.
“BOTH” (“Ambos” in the Spanish) is a narrative photographic collage of more than 15,000 photos about the cyclic nature of love, and the play of destiny in human life. Four years in the making, "BOTH" is a self portrait of my time in Barcelona.
Original extended (and adult) 17 minute version here.
Music of this version by Calde Ramírez (Music Komite).
"BLACK"
3:46 min.
The first video in a series based on colors.
Commissioned by Angela McJunkin as a trade for the music in my short “Untitled” (see above).
Dancer: Kerry Parker
"A TRIPTYCH OF KISSES TRAILER"
1:09 min.
Three shorts each based around a kiss.
Music by me.
"3 FLICKER POEMS"
A requiem for my Grandmother
3:48 min.
3:48 min.
Music by me.
"IT´S JUST A MUFFIN"
Short short with a surprise ending.
0:38 sec.
