MauMau Blood Dreams 2025 pursues the origins of narrative, from neolithic rock designs that morphed into Bronze Age word of mouth folklore, and were rewritten as 17th century stylish, dream-like, fairytales with happy endings. The fairytale-fable is deceptively fluffy and transformative, invading desire, life, and dream. Clearly we have been telling ourselves the same stories for a long time. I decided to cut-up, blur, mix-up roles and outcomes to make new narratives.
WORKS
MauMau Blood Dreams postcards
FILM
Moon is a Dagger
Bazar Magico
Sharqui Tree
Beast
Cold Mountain 2024 contemplates human relationships with the natural environment, the title is attributed to the legendary Tang era (618–907) Dao-poets Shide and Han Shan. Poet Gary Snyder’s 1950’s translations of selected Cold Mountain poems, and characterisation of the hermits, are depicted in Jack Kerouac’s 1958 novel, The Dharma Bums.
FILM
Hunters Heart
Surfers Soul
Farmers World
A*str0P00L 2023 asks, 'Are we ready? Can we accept varied life forms, challenges to beliefs, perceptual changes, space travel, transhumanism, and artificial consciousness designed within our bodies?’ in this series of speculative, humorous and poetic films composed with clips from early sci-fi movies.
WORKS
Shinzo Co-Star, gif-book
Null (result) &Void, gif-book
Series of 4 prints on linen
FILM
No One Speaks of Lorette
My Bot Dancing 2the End
There is Void
Time is Untape
Friday Night
Cornflakes Hullabaloo
Hinchinarfer
Planet of Dreams 2022 proposes radical alternative, dream-based practices of stewardship for the future of humanity and earth and solar system commons, and as a way to develop self knowledge and critical thinking in this age of increasing planetary crisis and cosmic consciousness.
FILM
Goose Moon Owl
Nuclear Forest
Wolf Queen
Magic Dream
Nomad Dreams, the Sorceress, the Flying Saucer and the Moon
Last Time Tomorrow
DreamTown USA
Dream Come True
SpaceLife Dreams
WORKS:
Oracle Books
I Have Known Rivers watercolors
Shaman Trees photographs
Love Fugitive 2021. Nine haiku films, made in response to the dystopic year of the covid virus, examine the only constant in our life, love.
ONCE IN A BLUE MOON
i hear your voice in my ear
asteroids blaze earth
comets threaten life
midnight pierced in shooting stars
300 million
planets in the galaxy
without you
WatchFiends: 100 seconds to midnight 2020, reflects on challenges humanity faces in six short films. From plague, weather instability, AI surveillance, ethics and choice, apocalypse, space mining and migration. The title ‘WatchFiends’ is a line from Blake: ‘What the Watchfiends cannot find.’ With Jeff Crouch.
Club Paradise 2019 examines vacation culture, consciousness and capitalism. The vacation migration is compared to early nomadic tribes led by their shaman on the tracks of game. But now, the game pursued is a state of mind advanced by corporate interests to produce a workers' consciousness tolerant of capitalist slavery.
FILM
Welcome
Moon on Fire Meditation
Race the Sun Meditation
Last Exit
Cabo Peligro
Tears in the Night
Club Paradise
WORKS
Postcards with Rafael Gonzalez, Jeff Crouch
Cruise Collection, t-shirts
Tourist Fun, photography
Trouble in Club Paradise, polaroids
Blue Souvenir, cyanotype prints
Drone Drama: Music for the Dead 2016 asks, ‘What is it to be human in the age of the drone?’ In a collaboration between filmmaker Cecelia Chapman and composer Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt. Based on Chapman's interpretation of Marquardt’s eleven title chapters to question the militarisation and commodification of knowledge, and the friction between technology corporations and local communities. San Francisco Peninsula.