Screentests

Screentests is an on-going project of short film portraits of men of all ages, ethnicities, sexual identities and genders. In each portrait the subject shares a short story about a pivotal moment in his boyhood or adolescence. The audio of these stories is married to the film of each man for three minutes, the length of a Super-8mm reel of film.

With Screentests, I hope to combine my interest in photographic portraiture, Freudian psychoanalysis, Hollywood and Warhol screen tests and narrative filmmaking. I’m interested in exploring the disconnection between memory, personal identity and image, both in the film and in life. By allowing these men to share their stories in their own voices, I hope to create a space for the viewer to reflect on their own projections of who these men are, versus who they are in the creation of their own identity, and how the world around us shapes these notions.

I’ll be periodically posting them on this page, in the order of which I do them.

Screenings/Exhibitions: Camera Club of NYC: Interiority Complex, Curated by Lindsey Castillo and Jesse Cesario Envoy Gallery Video Series – May 2010, PS122 Gallery – May 2010, Reduced Polish: New York City Screening – Monkeytown, Williamsburg, Reduced Polish: New York City Artists, AluCine Latin Media Festival, November 27, 2009, Poco Brillo, El Bodegon Gallery, Bogota, Columbia, September 2009, Brooklyn is Burning, July 2009