every dog has its day (EXCERPT)
HD video, single channel, color, sound, 2 minute 23 second excerpt of 6 minutes 39 seconds, 2019

‘every dog has its day’ brings together consumer-produced media dating from early Camcorder footage to smart phone videos, to present-day Vlogger uploads and web-cam streams. In a frenetic montage the piece explores internet vernacular, mediated presence, and the inherent manipulation in image production and consumption loops. This work extends the artist’s interest from mass media into the more specified role of the prosumer amidst society’s changing relationship to images. 

“...you didn’t do anything, all you did was you pushed a button.”

Throughout the work, prosumers address anonymous audiences through their cameras. A camboy proselytizes; an early Vlogger points her Camcorder into the bathroom mirror; members of the Heaven’s Gate internet cult sit in white lawn chairs and tell the audience how they would like to be remembered after their death.The disjointed image-sound relationship creates a porous connection between unfolding fragments of historical events, domestic spaces, and mediatic textures. 

“...what in the hell are we trying to understand? What are we trying to understand? There’s nothing to understand here.” 

Through layers of re-filming, the self-broadcasting that marks the work shifts between the space of video to a more removed point of view of one watching it on another screen. Images appear and disappear in quick flashing cuts creating an affective space. The piece is driven by its own internal rhythm and, towards the end, by electronic music which propels us  through bursts of violence, narcissism, religious fervor, and denial. 

“I understand the underdog thing. How we like to see the underdog rise up to the top...”

‘every dog has its day’ approaches the digital image not only as an extension of the self but also as a mirroring of cultural conditions and corporate expansion The piece explores the complexities of the circular notion that while we produce images, images also produce us.

Selected Screenings and Exhibitions:
e-flux ‘True Fake’ (2021)
Ann Arbor Film Festival (2020)
True/False Film Festival (2019)
International Studio & Curatorial Program, “Ungrounded” (2019)
Open City Documentary Festival (2019)
San Diego Underground Film Festival (2019)
Maryland Film Festival (2019)
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image (2019)
Oak Cliff Film Festival (2019)
BRIC, “Media Arts Fellowship Screening” (2018