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Hole in the Floor, 2008

6:06 min., digital video, 720 x 480, color, stereo

Surreal, stop-motion short about a young woman who rips up her floorboards and discovers an eerily familiar world on the floor below her. 
Music by Karl Pestka, Bobby Previte

Quicktime video (13 mb)
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Mobile Home Mobile Home, 2007

2:06 min., 720 x 480, color, stereo

In November 2006, a historical home was moved from one side of Ann Arbor to another.

Quicktime video (9 mb)
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Zapped! , 2005


10:41 min., 720x480, color, stereo

A Project with
Preemptive Media
An animated video about Radio Frequency Identification tags, surveillance, and how to subvert them.

Quicktime video sample (16.9 mb)

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Parasite


Parasite, 2001

3:30 min. digital video, 720 x 480, color, stereo.
Sound mix by
Nick Fox-Gieg, Cello by Georgina Mussin.

Stop-motion animation about insomnia.

Quicktime video (6.8 mb)



The Load

The Load, 2000

2:30 min. digital video piece, 720 x 480, color, stereo.
Audio and Music by
Nick Fox-Gieg

Stop-motion animation about a woman who pushes and carries her belongings with her, reaches a cliff's edge, and must decide what to do. Based on a dream I had in 1999.


Quicktime video (6.6 mb)
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