A Place Named Home (2023)
A Place Named Home is a documentary of sorts, perhaps a biography, a children’s story, a dance film, blurring abstraction and the concrete to find a higher self. This loosely narrative story follows a middle-aged man as he taps into his inner child and channels that voice to find refuge and ultimately a new home inside himself. This film frames queer potentialities in the form of an abstract children’s story, a semi autobiographic representation and in many ways a “coming out” of sorts no matter how many times you’ve circled the sun.
LOVE IS DANGER (2023)
Love is Danger also explores screendance as autoethnography. The film focuses on trace as a digital palimpsest in which layer after layer of experience builds upon itself and covers up others.
NO SUGAR NO CREAM (2022)
NO SUGAR NO CREAM is a collaboration between Meadows, Tamper, and Morrow about growing up in America as a black man. Both men are asking what will the US look like for the next generation of black kids coming up in this world. Both artists explore their own lived experiences through music (Tamper) and movement (Meadows) in the hopes of shining the light on "a day in the life" narration. What happens when those nightmares become realities or the anxiety of those nightmares becoming real? How does systemic powers of oppression attempt to erase stories and why? How do family and friends of color pass information on to the next generation. And finally, where do we go from here?
SEETHER (2021)
The body is a vessel and the vessel is boiling. Toxins are removed when boiling and what is being boiled and removed is toxic masculinity. Seether is a film that explores Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure in an attempt to find alternatives to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. This archive is shedding away levels of conditioning, boiling them away, queerly failing, to find a new sense of wholeness/ agency. The vessel is seething and when the seething subsides, the new vessel is whole.
The Wonder Years (2020)
Set in the extraordinary years of the 2020s, “The Wonder Years” looks both back and forward through the eyes of Eli, the oldest of five children in the Motley family, on the tribulations and joys of growing up in the United States as a twenty something black male. With music by Grammy Awardee Laurence Hobgood, the low-fi anti-tech home movie style of the work is a nod to classic 80’s sitcoms with an open, unapologetic, and ultimately vulnerable journey filled with all the feels and even some much-needed levity.
COMING DOWN (2019)
Coming Down is an abstract, non-linear narrative about two old club kids that get together for late night mayhem.
AZEEMO SHAN SHEDIPLO (2017)
a piece created in Mumbai, India during a residency at Sumeet Nagdev Dance Arts. When using the music of Diplo a student mentioned that the beat sounded like a song from a famous Bollywood movie. When they showed me the song I knew I had to fuse the two together bridging these two cultures. This is the culmination of the students working extremely hard over the two week residency and filming gorilla style for three hours at the train stop across the street from the school where students arrive to take class. The two songs that merge were "AZEEMO SHAN SHEHESHAH" by Jodhaa Akbar and "Move Around" by Diplo.
When Walt Whitman was a Little Girl (2012)
Based on a prose poem by M.C. Biegner, When Walt Whitman Was a Little Girl tells the startling, unuttered truth about America's good gray poet. Starting out as an ordinary nine year old girl, Walt is soon catapulted into the world with her senses ablaze. The film mixes drama, dance, puppetry, and oddball humor to portray the world through the eyes of a 'sensitive kid.'