Kingdom of Desire
Volda High's adaptation of Toto's 'Kingdom of Desire', performed live in 2013..
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Slave of Desire
Poet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation..
Bodies of Desire
Using Varsha Panikar's poetry series by the same name, Bodies Of Desire is a sensual celebration of genderless love and desire, inspired by the poet's lived reality. One of the #FiveFilmsForFreedom 2021..
Spiralling Into Desire
Spiralling into Desire is a Movement X Film collaboration that traces a woman's descent into her deep body to access and retrieve her true autonomy. The film draws parallels from the first epic poem 'The descent of Innana' which narrates the story of the Sumerian goddess Innana's descent into the underworld, to visit her sister Ershikegel - the queen of the dead. Separated, the two sisters represent the Madonna/Whore split, a dangerous consequence of patriarchy..
Desire with Digressions
A man trapped in a fugue state goes on an unexpected journey..
Law of Desire
The story of Trelita, a Chicana sex worker with an abusive boss and a dead boyfriend (who she may or may not have murdered). It is the second episode made in the Clit-o-matic: The Adventures Of White Trash Girl! series about female superhero White Trash Girl. It has been referred to as part #3 in an ongoing series..
Music of Desire
When intimacy couples with dysfunction; feel the sensation of becoming suspended between pleasure and a reverse soundtrack of desire. Produced through a media art residency at Signal Culture using real-time analog video processing tools and found media. Sexual dysfunction and disruptions to pleasure are common symptoms of trauma. High and low-level therapies can include music and body work. I converted the filmic body into a controlling signal, which was then applied back onto itself. The process a model of trauma; the material sources, point to the need for therapy; clinical and pop..
A Fatal Desire
This melodrama, staged by me and produced with my students at the San Francisco Art Institute, follows the turbulent journey of an aspiring singer as she flees a frigid environment to heat up a tepid career. Hauling along her decrepit mom and an equally cadaverous aunt, our heroine falls prey to a variety of libido-inspired stresses and also has a tragic debut at a disco club populated by repressed, trailer trash and ousted meteorologists. It's a fast moving trip from north to south with many odd detours for the viewer to relish..
Women of Desire
An outwardly happy suburban couple become involved in the play-for-pay racket for money and thrills..
Love and Desire
Love and Desire: Directed by Barry Chu. With Ana Capri, Teresa Mak, Katrina Paula, Michael Tse..
Cries of Desire
Jermaine, an aspiring male model, controls his wife Ariel, until a terrible accident invites a dangerous affair..
Blinded By Desire
Children disappear every day. One by one their lives are taken away. What happened to them remains secret. But it seems clear: the most innocent among us are being lured out of the niches of society by dark shadows. One of these desperate creatures has left all humanity behind in the process, giving himself entirely to his dark desires. He will stop at nothing for that!.
Proof of Desire
A twenty-four year old struggles with the realities of life as he pursues his musical passion..
Reifying Desire Three
The latest installment in a six-part series, Reifying Desire 3 is a surrealist creation myth that stems from his ongoing collaboration with his mother. Satterwhite writes: “‘Reifying Desire 1–6’ will use 230 3-D modeled versions of my mother’s drawings, my body, and animated figures. The intersection of the disparate disciplines including dance performance, drawing, and digital media acts as an exquisite corpse strategy for guiding the storyline. Ordinary utilitarian objects become queered and repurposed in pursuit of defining a new utopian and nonpolitical space for me to perform in. The result is an overlap of visual trajectories between my mother and I—her private domestic documentations/inventions and my public reactions to pop culture, art history, and political histories..
Protest and Desire
Protest and Desire is a video artwork that challenges popular STD / HIV discourse by focusing on how women of color deal with intimacy, sex, and age that relates to STDs and HIV within the landscape of white Europe..
Edge of Desire
Written and Directed by Carlos M. De La Torre, this film tells a story of longing and closure.
A Hearts Desire
A lone camper hears strange noises coming from the depths of the lake.. Will she stand her ground or will she give in to their fishy temptations?.
Jungle of Desire
The king of x-rated animation, Wong Ping returns with his take on marital bliss..
Sight and Desire
An experimental film that investigates the act of perception and the limits and possibilities through vision. Accompanied by an omniscient narrator and the conjuring of striking imagery, the film examines various conceptual underpinnings of what it means to "see" and what our eyes can truly do. A 2K restoration was made possible using a sole-surviving 16mm colour positive print from the Asian Film Archive Collection (AFA) in 2021..
