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Since returning to my native Nashville, I have primarily been concerned with exploring what I call, “polytonal vision.” I continue to work with my 16mm Bolex, often employing in-camera multiple exposures, but I am also working more with digital video.
Since returning to my native Nashville, I have primarily been concerned with exploring what I call, “polytonal vision.” I continue to work with my 16mm Bolex, often employing in-camera multiple exposures, but I am also working more with digital video.
Honky Tonky (2016)
All images were shot on 16mm film and all effects were composed in-camera. A portrait of lower Broadway, a section of Nashville that has for decades attracted country music fans to its honky tonk bars. The project was supported in part by the Tennessee Art Commission.
narcissus, the hunter, the numbness (2021)
A cinematic collaboration based on a poem by Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay written in 2020 during the Covid-19 pandemic. The film "uses an eclectic mix of stereoscopic imagery from historical archives to construct a fascinating visual essay to accompany the poem itself. The unique style allows for moments of complement and juxtaposition that make the collaboration shine." - Kindling Arts Festival
Hot Pursuit (2019)
"Film artist John Warren transforms footage from the first three seasons of Dukes of Hazzard (1979-1982) into a cinematic hall-of-mirrors. Subjected to a meticulous digital reprocessing, both action and narrative dissolve and are subsumed into a psychedelic, cascading digital texture, presided over by a hypnotic soundscape." - Slamdance Film Festival program notes
cracked_waltz (2019)
Journey Through the Snow (In the Pine Forest) / Waltz of the Snowflakes
Waterfalls (2018)
A film poem layering "found" sound and image that investigates the intersection of cinematic history and memory while creating a hypnotic feeling of movement and flow.
Carnival of Light (2017)
A projector-performance using 16mm film loops and liquid lights. The visuals were made in collaboration with DigDeep LightShow.
Future Tense (2017)
A look at construction cranes around Nashville as figures trapped by the ambivalent forces of capitalism. The piece continues my interest in the landscape, not as a mere pictorial representation, but instead as a point of perceptual inquiry to examine the outer world in an attempt to understand the inner world.
Phantom Engineer (2015) 3-channel 16mm cine-installation • Documentation
A cine-installation that employs three prominently visible projectors, each with a loop of 16mm film, to construct a meditation on Nashville’s history as a hub for commerce. The piece is also a reflection on the deep nature of film, of substance, of luminosity and shadow.
Nature Sex (2014)
Reach into nature, explode into space.
Ocean Grown (2013)
March to the sea.
Vestige (2015)
Summer’s end.
Upside/Downside (2015)
Installation view of Upside/Downside from Coop Gallery in Nashville.
