no more room in hell

2023, 23:10, 4K Video, color, sound

"no more room in hell" began with initial research conducted at the archive of horror director George A. Romero (Dir. Night of the Living Dead) housed at the University of Pittsburgh. Extending research beyond the archive, the film examines the implications of zombiehood in relation to industry, late techno-capitalism, and apocalyptic realities. The experimental cinematic work models itself after Romero’s cult classics which birthed the American cinematic zombie against the industrial backdrop of Western Pennsylvania.

CREDITS
Co-Produced by Rebecca Shapass & Kevin Mathein
Cinematography Kevin Mathein
Original Score Saint Taint 
SFX Makeup Bo-Bo Jessee
Point Cloud Animations Magda Gourinchas
Dataset Backend Mike Xu

This project has been supported by funding from Carnegie Mellon University’s STUDIO for Creative Inquiry Frank-Ratchye Further Fund. Installation images by Tom Little.

SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS
62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival (Ann Arbor, MI)
Antimatter [media art] (Victoria, BC, Canada)
Nightmares Film Festival (Columbus, OH)
Film Diary NYC: The Coldest Winter (Brooklyn, NY)
B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (Frankfurt, Germany)
::iidrr gallery (NYC)
thump, whoosh, rumble @ Miller ICA (Pittsburgh, PA)

no more room in hell: zombie possibilities & haunted desires

2022-23, illustrated artist-research lecture

Please contact me fora recording or transcript of the lecture.

While the film focuses on image-based poetics and employs montage to draw connections between forms of extraction and contamination, the lecture more directly addresses the social and historical contexts (labor movements, environmental crises, techno-optimism) that inspired the film but live outside of it.


PRESENTATIONS

  • 2023 HASTAC Critical Making & Social Justice @ Pratt University - Brooklyn, NY

  • 2023 Visiting Lecture & Introduction to “Night of the Living Dead” as a part of the show “Everything Once Arranged Has Become Scattered” (VCU Curatorial Practice) @ The Byrd Theatre - Richmond, VA

  • 2022 Future Bodies: New Media caucus Symposium @ Virgina Tech - Blacksburgh, VA