LETTER FROM THE GIRL, MAILED AT THE GAS STATION, 15 minutes, 16mm and digital film, 2003

An experimental digital video/16 mm film hybrid. Using digital video to reference surveillance and voyeurism, and film to reference cinematic history, LETTER draws on Film Noir, American dreamscapes, American desert mythology, the B-movie, oppositional cinema, and Noir's descendent, True Crime.   gender inversions. Shot on Mount Washington, the site of Charlie Chaplin's hotel and silent movie shoots, the piece references an historic cinematic landscape. 

Filmed in dreamlike settings- a lonely desert, empty prairie land- a car moves through a winding highway in the Hollywood hills. The characters are trapped in a pre-urban space- on a stretch of back road that anticipates dark city streets, the Noir streets of Los Angeles - a space of fugitive menace where social bets are settled.