Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion
February 20, 2018My cousin Michael Moorman flies this beautiful beast, the largest and heaviest helicopter in the USMC.
NYE 2018 @ The Huntington Gardens
January 1, 2018Photographed at the Huntington Botanical Gardens on New Years Eve 2018 between 3PM and 5PM.
GIANNA X GIANNA
December 19, 2017GIANNA X GIANNA performing at The Wayfarer in Costa Mesa, CA on November 11th, 2017
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BREAK Music Video for Hil Jaeger
June 14, 2017“I would never hurt you,” is what we say in the wave of love when our nerve endings are braided together, when our motion is synchronous, when our bodies are inseparable… And then the wave breaks.
LOS ANGELES, CA — Electronic producer, vocalist, composer and engineer Hil Jaeger, in collaboration with independent audio/visual art collective Unraveled Artists, brings to you an unconventional music video for her newest single Break. Conceived by Creative Director Farida Amar, filmed by Cinematographer Viktoria Raykova, and edited by Jaeger herself; this visual experiment documents tension and release in subtle nonverbal communication between Jaeger and performance artist Kira Preston as they explore the phenomenon and intimately familiar emotional entanglement of heartbreak.
Break opens in medias res within a relationship narrative, intentionally positioning the viewer as voyeur into an improvisational process of lovers probing the seemingly infinite facets of their connection with subtle choreography. Mirrors paired with congruent flesh tones and slippery, synchronous motion creates sensations of endless recursion; the camera focuses and blurs. The push and pull dynamic of infatuated lovers devolves and a quiet violence ensues. Jaeger’s emotive tenor emphasizes this as the scenes of her performance become increasingly wrought and writhing while the scenes between the two lovers remain coolly lit and methodically articulated. This breakdown will seem familiar to anyone who has ever felt love slip between their fingers. The one we love stays the same, but suddenly we start to see them differently. We push and find there is no longer a response. The magnitude we once carried effortlessly now becomes an unbearable weight.
Break began in an apartment in Brooklyn with female musician Jaeger and her aerialist love/r, where they recorded their friend playing extended technique harp. Samples of that recording became the ghost that haunts the corridors of this song. With a bleeding heart, Hil carried Break back to Oakland where she built and mastered the song in her home studio beat by beat. The visualization of this journey was filmed at Everybody Los Angeles, a queer friendly health and wellness facility, by four queer identifying women who fearlessly confront love in its various formats. Break is now being brought to you with love, perhaps the most powerful challenge we can overcome.
SONG : B R E A K / ALBUM : CMPRSSN / MUSIC PRODUCTION, RECORDING, MIXING, PERFORMANCE & VIDEO EDITING : Hil Jaeger / BODY PERFORMANCE : Kira Preston / CREATIVE DIRECTION, PRODUCTION & STILL IMAGES : Farida Amar / CAMERA OPERATION, CINEMATOGRAPHY : Viktoria Raykova / LOCATION : Everybody, Los Angeles
Kominas Rock Therapy Tour
August 26, 2016Kominas show at Los Globos in Los Angeles, CA on 8/21/16, photographed by Farida Amar
Galaxies Are Growing Inside Me
May 22, 2016Galaxies Are Growing Inside Me was a summoning of life and the inevitable colliding of that which lives. It was attraction and repulsion, where creatures of the night met the light of day. Where sound was sent into concrete high rises. Wake up little crickets, and chirp towards the sun. Close your eyes human, and rest in the shade. Let yourself climb towards the sky, flip upside-down and use your fingers to trace the outline of your own shadow on the ground below.
MUSICIANS : Entertainment, Hip to Death, Nikki McKnight, Chris Gravely, Scott Box and Joshua Loner / PERFORMANCE ARTISTS : Sara Gregory of MakeShift Circus and Marilyn Chen of Liquid Sky / INSTALLATION DESIGN : Farida Amar / PRODUCTION : Farida Amar
Photo Credit : Farida Amar
This show was a part of Unraveled Tours 2016.
Sleep Is Not for Those Who Dream
May 18, 2016About the Wayfinding Installation built by Raphael Arar : This participatory installation includes a set of four electromechanical sculptures that operate in subsequent harmony and discord based on audience, performer and/or environmental impulses. Each sculpture, positioned at a Cardinal Direction, operates independently by way of a motor that strikes tensed bungee cables containing a glass orb with a glass marble. In effect, both movement and sound ensue, the latter continuously amplified by digital effects. Software manipulates and morphs the sequence at which the sculptures fire, inviting both the environment along with the participant to meddle with a sense of direction amidst time.
MUSICIANS : Brandon Tory, Model Soul and The Heavns / PERFORMANCE ARTIST : Camille Grenier / INSTALLATION DESIGN : Raphael Arar and Will Michaelsen / PRODUCTION : Farida Amar / DOCUMENTATION : Viktoria Raykova
Photo Credit : Viktoria Raykova
This show was a part of Unraveled Tours 2016.
Eventually, Everything Connects
May 17, 2016Eventually, Everything Connects
MUSICIANS : Canada, Airacuda and Vishnu Basement / PERFORMANCE ARTISTS : Marina Kec, Caitlin Dagle and Nicole Battestilli / MUSIC CURATING : Truong Ta / INSTALLATION DESIGN : Farida Amar / PRODUCTION : Farida Amar
Photo Credit : Farida Amar
This show was a part of Unraveled Tours 2016.
Crashing Into Walls We’ve Built
May 16, 2016About the Wayfinding Installation built by Raphael Arar : This participatory installation includes a set of four electromechanical sculptures that operate in subsequent harmony and discord based on audience, performer and/or environmental impulses. Each sculpture, positioned at a Cardinal Direction, operates independently by way of a motor that strikes tensed bungee cables containing a glass orb with a glass marble. In effect, both movement and sound ensue, the latter continuously amplified by digital effects. Software manipulates and morphs the sequence at which the sculptures fire, inviting both the environment along with the participant to meddle with a sense of direction amidst time.
MUSICIANS : Hoofwerk, Hydroplane, Wake and Whitney Lyman / PERFORMANCE ARTIST : Camille Grenier / INSTALLATION DESIGN : Raphael Arar and Will Michaelsen / PRODUCTION : Farida Amar
Old Ways Won’t Open New Doors
May 15, 2016About the Wayfinding Installation built by Raphael Arar : This participatory installation includes a set of four electromechanical sculptures that operate in subsequent harmony and discord based on audience, performer and/or environmental impulses. Each sculpture, positioned at a Cardinal Direction, operates independently by way of a motor that strikes tensed bungee cables containing a glass orb with a glass marble. In effect, both movement and sound ensue, the latter continuously amplified by digital effects. Software manipulates and morphs the sequence at which the sculptures fire, inviting both the environment along with the participant to meddle with a sense of direction amidst time.
MUSICIANS : The Shape, Wicked Man, Hoofwerk and Whitney Lyman / PERFORMANCE ARTIST : Camille Grenier / INSTALLATION DESIGN : Raphael Arar and Will Michaelsen / PRODUCTION : Farida Amar
Photo Credit : Viktoria Raykova
This show was a part of Unraveled Tours 2016.