Film & VR

please click and drag the video frame to explore this 360-degree draft, featuring adapted shamanistic practices, and attempting to leverage the holistic nature of immersive media (including ambisonics) to gesture toward hitherto incommunicable experiences in outdoor environments.

no additional sound design has been added to this sequence (besides ambisonic field-recording at the time of video capture) and high-level color grades, etc have not yet been performed.

filming took place at Dorland Mountain (Temecula, CA) and Mt Baldy (Nahuatl: Joat) in Southern California. Fox mask by Julio Tarquiza. Bird and Mountain-Spirit Masks by Micah Huang

EN: Personal Essay Film, relating how my early experiences on the frontlines of the mental health crisis set me on the path to culturally informed techno-shamanism and neuroaesthetics.

FR: Film-essai personnel, relatant comment mes premières expériences en première ligne de la crise de santé mentale m'ont mis sur la voie du techno-chamanisme et de la neuroesthétique culturellement informés.

EN: Rough Cut of essay-documentary about the little known, unfree workers from the Hong Kong region, who built the most rugged railroad in the USA.

FR: Version préliminaire d'un essai-documentaire sur les travailleurs peu connus et non libres de la région de Hong Kong, qui ont construit le chemin de fer le plus accidenté des États-Unis.