hope paltz videos
These are miscellaneous videos made during stays at my parents' house in Hopewell Junction. For the period between 2003 and 2006, I made several attempts at independence and was repeatedly institutionalized involuntarily at mental hospitals. I released some of the videos from that period on a DVD called "De-Imprint: Guilt-Glutton Transmission", but my ability to organize and distribute things was falling apart and I was reliant on support from a family that found my sensibilities offensive. The themes and quality of these videos are erratic. By the end of this period, the videos produced were no longer pieces intended to be shown as finished products but artifacts of departures from consensus reality, as I lost my identity as "video artist" who creates pieces of "art" intended to express oneself, culminating in nearly dying in a fire. The later videos, from the period from 2015 to 2016, were made while I was working on a doctorate in mathematics, which garnered enthusiastic familial support by means of which pursuit of my creative interests, when there was time for them, was more possible.
Artfag (2003)
a documentary about being depressed while living with my family and dealing with the fallout of manic psychosis
Happy birthday surprise (2005)
a Richard Simmons workout video in which the workout music is replaced with heavy music, most notably that of the Seth Putnam band Full Blown AIDS, and the working out is edited to match the tempo of the heavy music
the mystery of chessboxin (2005)
parts of a Dorf video edited to a Wu-Tang track
van halen (2005)
Keith and I started a Rated R like band with Dennis Ryan on ukulele instead of Dan Deacon on guitar, but with me focusing on the vocals and not being physically violent. The band was called Van Halen, and we made an album called Return to the 36 Chambers with the band name written like the Metallica logo and an album cover stolen from Kiss, and all the song titles were also taken from popular music, but "songs" were nonsensical. This is a recording of us performing at Snug Harbor in New Paltz in 2005. I think we may have played one other show besides this, I don't remember.
Show off! (2006)
a modification of a video about party tricks, with help from Ed Bear and Matt Motell
guilt-glutton transmission (2006)
a depiction and thus liberation from the imprinting performed by Roman Catholic indoctrinization
two weeks (2006)
an animation set to a story told by William Shatner
love myself a laugh (2006)
a dream recorded in response to a prompt from Simon Thrasher, accompanied by sounds I created on a 4-track and, and some video found footage
Howlin' beaver's straight-talk crash test (2015)
Howlin' Beaver puts the new tech to the ultimate test.
answer me bob
A man returns home intending to help his brother care for his dying sexually abusive father and is distracted by homosexuality.