HORA.DIA.MES

This three channel video installation was recorded in Buenos Aires

screen 1 is made up of vignettes shot on street level



screen 2 this tracking shot, recorded from a car window, will be projected onto a translucent screen between the two screens on either side.


screen #3 is made up of superimposed shots of the city from a bird's eye view

Parting Shots-- a 3 channel video installation

tough to explain this on a blog-- but here goes: it's three screens... screens 1 and 3 are urban sketches-- vehicle shadows creep along industrial buildings in the early morning in Sunset Park Brooklyn. The sound is synched up with each passing shadow, rendering an unsettling and aggressively discordant world. The MIDDLE image (on a small monitor in the center of the room) is of mannequins I painted and still photographed in other neighborhoods in NYC. The walls yield a horizontal movement, the small monitor forward motion... drifting through urban space.

screen #1

screen#2



screen#3

alone, apart : The Dream Reveals the Waking Day (2006)

An homage to two ramshackle cities, made up of footage shot while wandering. I meander city streets with a camera, looking to be haunted by unfamiliar vistas. I find solace in the forgotten landscapes, odd voices on a ham radio, shimmering water in a desolate harbor. Later I attack the film, moving it this way and that, trying to squeeze it against its will, wrest strangeness from the everyday.

A Year (2006)

This is my third diary film: I made January Journal in 1985 during a winter break at Bard College. In 1992 I made Lilting Towards Chaos, about negotiating SF as a young adult. This last deals with the middle age thing... trips to New Orleans and North Carolina and lots of footage in Brooklyn, wandering as always. Some of the footage was made by RAY O GRAMMING: laying objects on 35mm stock and exposing it to light, yielding unexpected abstract shapes.

Rockaway (2005)

In Rockaway, three teenage girls from Queens celebrate their last night of high school on the edge of New York, where the city meets the sand. Their wild stabs at adulthood confuse and haunt them as they struggle to define themselves in the face of a future they can’t imagine. Rockaway shows the last vestige of a fleeting adolescence caught between suburb and city.


“Combining elements of fearless childhood with the sadness of moving on, Rockaway combines unique monologues and flashbacks with outer-city scenery and abandoned architecture to create a sweet and powerful look into the future of narrative cinema.”
Ron Wilkinson Monsters and Critics.com

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(trailer)

view interview with Mark Street
(click on Rockaway)

Hidden in Plain Sight

This film was made in Hanoi, Vietnam; Marseille, France; Santiago de Chile and Dakar, Senegal. It's really about looking and wandering, immersing oneself in the urban milieu in the immediate and in a more reflective way. I shot using my 16mm bolex and mini DV. The film premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2008.

“This is brilliant filmmaking, at once engaging and challenging, partisan and universal.”

Howard Feinstein Indiewire

“Street’s world tour through five major cities in five different nations, where evidence of revolutionary political thought runs
deep where least expected” LA Weekly

Trailer Trash

My new five minute film was made from some 35mm movie trailers I found in the TRASH at my local movie theatre-- the Cobble Hill Theatre in Brooklyn. I painted and scratched at the surface of the images, creating an otherwordly mix.

Musicians Jane Scarpantoni and Bradford Reed performed LIVE to this material in 2008 at the Galapagos Art Center, when it was still in Williamsburg.

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