Doomed

I filmed Doomed for a few hundred dollars with a group of friends in the Pocono Mountains from September 2009 to September 2011. With a backpack containing a couple of point-and-shoot cameras, a digital audio recorder and a thrift store tripod with missing feet, we merged the dark forests of 1980's fantasy movies with the self-destructive negativity of 1990’s alternative rock to create a parable about the creative process. The production crept into a realm of immersive fiction with the cast/crew living collectively for weeks and even sleeping overnight in the disused chicken coop where the interior scenes were filmed. The centerpiece of Doomed is a fantastical tree creature named Glofin constructed using burlap, latex, alpaca wool, and glass taxidermy eyes. Production was halted when Glofin was destroyed by wild animals. I returned to the project years later and created an ambient score sourced from cassette tapes of myself practicing distorted electric guitar as a teenager in the 90s. The resulting film creates a wormhole across moments in time.