A Place

A street scene in Belfast showing several horse-drawn omnibuses.

The days are long. Their core is hot. Thermographic camera looks at a new residential area in eastern Helsinki. 

The stanza in poetry is analogous with the paragraph that is seen in prose; related thoughts are grouped into units. In music, groups of lines are typically referred to as verses. The stanza has also been known by terms such as batch, fit, and stave. This film is composed of related images grouped into a unit.

A Place (Playground) (2004) by Krassimir Terziev focuses on one of the playgrounds situated in a typical working-class neighborhood, built in 1983 in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. The environment recorded on video is characteristic of a concoction of preplanned hillocks that are cut across by canals and ponds which are linked by curved footbridges. Terziev highlights the architectural ensemble characteristic of prop-like tanks, rockets, military airplanes and canons—all arranged as if on a battlefield. The metal items painted in the same colors—yellow, red and blue—were manufactured from the materials used in the production of military equipment. Importantly, the film turns to the environment as metaphor, as it documents everyday activities in a space packed with residents who are unaware of the changing ideologies behind their urban surroundings, as communist ideology gradually gives way to capitalist consumerism.

Four friends at the start of the 2020 Pandemic attempt to pull off a $500,000 Heist in the Suburbs.

Place Mattes explores the space between reaching and touching. Animation and optical printing are used to create travelling mattes for places, confounding the difference between eternal and internal.

Unfixed, images from a lifetime come to light, fleetingly, before decaying into darkness.

Propulsive in-camera editing sends this nature collage deep into the embraces of dandelions.

It is the story of a compulsive Japanese worker obsessed with order; for everything there is a site, but he realizes that he can not finds his site.

The story of the Schaffer family, made up of terminally ill father Jack and his two daughters, bipolar Pappy, and Susannah, who tries to keep the family together despite it taking a strain on her romantic life.

A young cleaning girl's day turns upside down when she finds the gripping journal of a refugee.

short-film about finding your own place and destiny.

Legendary Place is a Chinese restaurant with a perfect delivery record. Can Arnold and Mel uphold their dad’s legend before an evil inspector shuts it down?

An ode to the Hollywood classics of the 1940's. A film noir that tells the story of a reclusive actress, Jane Prescott, in the midst of a psychological breakdown.

A short documentary about Laurence Dixon, repairman of the double bass and owner of Bass Place.

In this case taking place means changing places, a complete and mutual transformation, as is seen in the eternal contrast between bios and thanatos. In the video changing places becomes a moment of identification, favored by the ambiguity of a date, 1949 which is the only element two people have in common, since one of them died and the other was born in that year.

A comic book, 2 scrappy community college students, and an intimidating gang of 10-year-old kids on bicycles... This is a heist for the ages! Set in a small Texas town, 3RD PLACE tells the tale of growing up lower class and aspiring for something greater and doing everything you can to achieve it.

Passersby at Astor Place in New York City speak silent volumes as they move by the mirrored surface of a diner window. I wanted to capture the unscripted choreography of the street, its dance of gazes and riddle of identities.

A promising high school kid is unjustly sent to the notorious juvenile prison of Iceland where he faces increasingly severe abuse from the head guard who is determined to brake his spirit.