How to Find an Empire Brick
Are people always asking you where you come from?
Are you often compared to someone who looks just like you?
Do you ever get the sense of genetic déjà-vu?
BROTHER? is a candid video collage dedicated to all the “brothers-from-other-mothers” in search of their true selves.
7 min.
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aphlabate/[aph’la-bate]
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WORKERS’ COMP.
In 2004, I brought a camera, a tripod, a microphone and some issues of an art magazine to the jobsite where I worked. An experimental documentary about the perils of mixing art and labor, WORKERS’ COMP. may require some knowledge about what it’s like to be of mixed ancestry.
6 min.
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DEADLY (Atheneum/Simon & Schuster)
A mysterious outbreak of typhoid fever is sweeping New York.
Could the city’s future rest with its most unlikely scientist?
1 min.
aphlabate/[aph’la-bate] is an illustration of a struggle with the rudiments of the alphabet.
Through narration, experimentation with non-existent forms of writing and stop-action word (mis) spelling, aphlabate is an attempt to unlearn what is most fundamentally ingrained.
10 min.
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I collect bricks. “Empire” bricks.
It’s dangerous, fun, hard work.
Want to know what’s in a brick?
Join me as I describe where and when these bricks were made, as well as who made them.
5 min.
“U-brick-quitous”
October 2009. Stuyvesant Town, NYC.
36,500,000 bricks.
4 weeks.
“Who knew that a tour about the bricks used to build this complex could be so fascinating, enlightening and fun?”
- A. Miller, Stuytown resident
1 min.
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