Frames no. 001 ©2015

 Frames is a 2015 series of video stills created in relation to my work in erotica and artporn. Re-imagining the imagery filtered through glitch-based software and removed from their context the new images represent a frozen moment of intimacy in our digital landscape.

"The following film is almost entirely a work of fiction. Almost"  So begins Spark's final unspooling (actually films really unspool these days but still) The story of a self obsessed artist who's attention seeking suicide attempt forces him to refocus on life. Where to start? In the Beginning... In seeking his loved one's forgiveness for his downward spiral he contemplates the very nature of his existential crisis: from the big bang through his own conception, to the afterlife, and back to bathtub in Paris and the cold light of day.  It's an explicit, eccentric, obsessive and elegiac story of the struggle to forgive one's self.  

Paris, morning ©2013

My side/solo project Boarding School recently released a record Mute Songs Vol. 01   . One track "93 Nights" also appears on the soundtrack to my long gestating up coming feature film directorial debut "Spark", an artporn drama set between Paris and Portland, OR.  The video for "93 Nights" , a sort of abstracted travelog of DNA, in utero voyeurism and Parisian cityscape also serves as a sneak peek at some of the films less graphic moments and sets its tone..  
 Take a look after the jump

    I've decided to test out some sequences from the upcoming sexually explicit feature film Spark over on xtube to see how certain scenes play out for an audience.  So of course I have to share them here as well. So here's your first look at my new film Spark.

     We're entering the final big chunk of shooting for Spark, with principal photography wrapping by the end of January, which will leave only the delightful effects shots to pick up and engineer. The films opening sequence, a quite bloody suicide attempt has yet to be lensed, saving the best for last- perhaps.
     The script has been largely improvised, and wholly unpleasant. It's been a grueling process mentally and emotionally making a film that many will instantly view as autobiographical and at times even I have had a hard time discerning the facts from the fiction of it all.
      Much has been made of the fact the film is pornographic. I've argued it's sexually explicit but not pornographic since the visceral depictions of real sex in the film are integral plot points meant to provoke and disturb rather than titillate. I argue if it is pornography, then it's the least sexy porno film I can make.   The film paints with the sickly tones of addiction with a pseudo-documentary/verité  flair that belies the planning involved to make  the film.  Shot in three countries and in multiple states on a variety of formats to express the dreamlike (or nightmarish) state of manic depression and sexual depravity the film is the experimental feature that my gallery work has hinted at for years, work that I've been hesitant to fully extrapolate into a narrative film.  But no more.  There are so many people to thank who've supported this project that I won't start that just yet but I love you all.

For those who need a synopsis

Spark follows a self absorbed artist/film maker who turns the cameras on himself through a major depressive period and highly active time of sexual addiction. The film is a raw and unflinching look at self destruction and hopefully, recovery.

An update on SPARK, a new film from Time-Out Films and director Andrew Klaus :

So we are in our second week of the European shooting schedule a few days in Iceland and now Paris, France. We've managed even to shoot scenes inside the Louvre and an opulent dream sequence in the apartments of Napoleon Bonaparte (also at Musee de Louvre) !  Lots of  locations here, trying to capture the feel of Paris through the eyes of someone who can't even find the beauty in it when it's all around him. Someone who is so hurt that the world around him starts to wither in his eyes as his partner struggles to save him from himself. It's been an intense experience writing/directing/AND acting in this film but I'm very proud of it and of everyone involved as well as humbled beyond belief by the amazing outpouring of support to make this film a reality,  it may not be a feel good film, but it is one of very honest feeling.