

group Improv Everywhere stages annual "No Pants" event,with 160 people riding the NYsubway system sans pants.
An experimental piece that focuses on fluidity and movement. Directed and edited by Zack Wilson. Performed by Kacie McEgan. Music by Hybrid "Higher than a Skyscraper" Licensed courtesy of Distinctive Records. www.distinctiverecords.com Spring 2006.
This piece was commissioned by the experimental sound collage group Negativland for the video compilation, "Our Favorite Things," soon to be released. The track had been cut by Negativland several years before, an audio document of their problems with copyright/trademark issues concerning their "U2" album. Many years and a painful settlement later, they had successfully transformed their experience into even more art, and a little activism besides. This little piece, made on Disney equipment after hours when no one was looking, remains quite popular. San Francisco experimental filmmaker Craig Baldwin has been kind enough to include it in "culture jamming" programs he has organized throughout the US and Europe. Several times has it been used in conferences and on panels about copyright for the legal profession. And it's fun, to boot. The statute of limitations has apparently run out on this piece, and it is now considered perfectly legal. What a relief!
Video of the Huygens probe landing on Titan. Four hour descent compressed into five minutes. Cool!
?Unearthed? was made at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2002. The purpose of the film is partly to express the emergence of self-awareness in an unusual character who, even as a potato, seems remarkably human during its short journey through life. It is an exploration of how the addition of an eye (and sight) can change the perspective of a previously blind and unknowing creature, and how knowledge cannot necessarily change one?s fate. Although this uprooted tuber must struggle with death and uncertainty, ?Unearthed? is ultimately a story about the continuation of life and its power to