The City

1 in 5 Milwaukee city workers live outside its borders, including about 1 in 3 firefighters and police officers.
The 75 year-old residency law was removed in 2013 by a WI state law, which was upheld by the state Supreme Court.

This is a response to the effects of lifting that requirement.

Omnia Vanitas

Look back again—
how the endless age of time comes to pass;
Before our birth, it is nothing to us.
This is a looking glass nature holds up for us
in which we see the time yet to come.
After we finally die.
What is there that looks so fearsome?
What is so tragic?
Isn't it more peaceful than any sleep?

First Dream

A visual haiku about modern liminal states of being.

Contains Elements From:

“Industrial Power”
National Security Council, 1957
“Birds of Prey”
ERPI Classroom, 1938
“Tien Shan Gong Zhu”
Wan Brothers, 1941
“Tobacco and the Human Body”
Encyclopedia Britannica Films, 1954
‘”Instructing the Blind Worker on the Job”
US Dept. of Education, 1944
“The Bed You Sleep In”
Directed by Jon Jost
Complex Corporation/Vanguard Cinema, 1993

Music:
“Cross Breeding”
Ornette Coleman
from “Ornette on Tenor” (1962)
Progetto TNT Jazz

As They Rode Along the Edge

Memento Mori

An experimental short for UWM
made in collaboration with Ariana Strupp.