The Cliks on New Now Next/Logo TV

Recently I got the opportunity to shoot a series of promotional inserts for LOGO TV starring the Canadian Band the Cliks - and shot them performing live, presented here for your viewing pleasure. If you'd like to see these videos in their original habitat, go to:

http://www.logoonline.com/video/misc/402894/the-cliks-on-newnownext-music.jhtml?id=1614412

Mad About You Music Video by Telling on Trixie

From "Ugly, Broke & Sober," Telling on Trixie's sophomore album. The footage filmed at Red Gorilla Music Fest in Austin at the Chuggin' Monkey, Music Gorilla at Spin in Austin, and at the "Ugly, Broke & Sober" CD release party filmed at Sullivan Hall, NYC. "Mad About You" is Telling on Trixie's one and only cover song, remade with permission. Telling on Trixie gives a darker take on Belinda Carlisle's wonderfully sugary pop hit. Shot, directed and edited by Julian Rad of Works Productions. Wonka Vision Magazine review: "Guitarists Brad Small and Tommy Kessler showcase their diversity within, from the searing solo that sears across the heavy hitting cover of Belinda Carlisle’s “Mad About You,” to their lilting work on the warm and breezy “Crash Me Up,” and on to the driving, new wave fired title track. Soaring rock, power ballads, lovely introspective numbers—the boys shine on them all. As does the rhythm section, whose tightness and self-assured performances underlie every song on the set....Nicoletto himself excels across Broke, but arguably reaches his soulful apex on “Mad About You” and his neo-soul apotheosis on the hard rock “A.N.F.O.” With a set full of powerful melodies and a diverse enough sound to please both pop and rock fans, Ugly, Broke & Sober has it all and then some."

egg by Alexandra Beller/Dances

egg is a solo work for Beller unearthing the turmoil, ecstasy, passion and ambivalence in the first year of motherhood. Shot during performance at the Abrons Arts Center at the Henry Street Settlement, NYC, March 2009. Shot, directed and edited by yours truly.

Excerpts from What Comes After Happy . . .

What comes after happy cracks open our cultural obsession with happiness. More than almost any country, America is driven by the search for a state we consider "happy." As if happiness were a state of the Union rather than a state of being, we seem to be constantly mapping out the route towards a place, rather than experiencing the journey and taking in the states along the way. While other countries give deep value to the states of sadness, anger, passion and fear, we often whitewash our everyday lives to announce to the world and ourselves that we do not covet, that we are not filled with unrest, that we do not mourn. What comes after happy features 300 fortune cookies, an eclectic score and a ferocious physical vocabulary. These are video excerpts of the 2009 rendition performed at Abrons Art Center, NYC. Created and directed by Alexandra Beller. Choreographed by Alexandra Beller in collaboration with the company. Performed by Tim Cusick, Toni Melaas, Milvia Pacheco Salvatierria, Edward Rice and Jenna Riegel. Co-photographed (with Martijn Hart) and edited by yours truly.