Split Decision 16mm, 15 minutes (1979)

This film is a scrambled narrative that illustrates, in soap opera fashion, life in Lower Manhattan in the '70s and at the same time dramatizes questions about the nature of cinematic representation. "Split Decision" is a boxing term used when the judges declare one fighter to be the winner by non-unanimous vote. Here, the fight is between the films main characters seen intermittently in a bar, negotiating a 'pick-up', and at home, breaking up in a domestic quarrel. The fight is also in the telling, between modes of conventional and radical representation.  

Works In The Field 16mm, silent, 40 minutes (1978

Mountain landscapes, Manhattan cityscapes and images from magazine covers and television news are fragmented in computer generated mattes. Intercut with a found documentary about family life in Malaysia, the film becomes an essay on reading. Watching the film is like an accelerated game of Concentration with glimpses of the image appearing inside swirling grids. The juxtaposition of the gridded sequences to the conventionally assembled Malaysian footage formulates an inquiry into the nature and meaning of the "document" in cinema. 

Texas Farm.Workers March For Human Rights 16mm, 7 minutes (1977) 
 

This is an agit-prop film made for the Texas Farm Workers Union at the conclusion of their cross-country march to repeal parts of the Taft-Hartley labor law.

The Trail To Koskimo, His First Hunt 16mm, 35 minutes (1976)

Pictures are seen through a maze of swarming dots that alternately form a screen obscuring the image or form the very substance of the image itself. The soundtrack quotes excerpts from a 1930 Franz Boas text about a Kwakiutle Indian who tells his story of learning the ways of a shaman. The story serves as a metaphor for the artist's struggle. The film is about the desire to master the magic of the image while following a path of skepticism and doubt.