Clip from the video Kevin and Cedar, 2002, 8:30 mins
Videos about writers 1998 - 2004
with Laurie Weeks, Leslie Scalapino, Eileen Myles, Kevin Killin & Cedar Sigo, and Lynne Tillman
This is a series of video portraits of contemporary writers whose writing I know well and admire. Each piece is a separate portrait. Together they represent a less self-conscious use of video portraiture to highlight their writing.
Shooting extemporaneously and editing intuitively, I allow obvious
and sometimes mannered visual tropes to create video transpositions
of their writing. My aim is to please the subject, to flatter, and
to present a fiction of the writer’Äôs persona from within the
writing itself.
Lynne 2004, 6:00, portrait of Lynne Tillman
Shot at Bard College in the summer of 2004 and using text from Lynne Tillman's genius novel No Lease on Life. Kevin and Cedar
2002, 8:30, portrait of Kevin Killian and Cedar Sigo
Shot in San Francisco at Kevin Killian's the South of Market apartment, that he shares with Dodie Bellamy, Kevin recites "Theme," by Cedar Sigo, and his own poem "Who."
Eileen
2000, 10:20, portrait of Eileen Myles
Eileen Myles's recites from her novel Cool for You with music by Azalia Snail and The Butchies. Shot in Eileen's Lower East Side apartment.
Leslie 1998, 11:04, portrait of Leslie Scalapino
Leslie Scalapino reads from Deer Night. Leslie's text would
seem to push visual limits but instead envelopes and enhances them.
Leslie Scalapino died in the spring of 2010. All who knew her deeply
regret her passing.
Laurie
1998, 11:02, portrait of Laurie Weeks
Laurie Weeks performs herself better than anyone else could possibly do. Text from her unfinished novel Zippermouth.
