DEAD BIRDS DON’T FLY is an intimate portrait concerned with labor, love, loss, and grief over the past 22 days, weeks, months, and years. Consciously navigating the structural medium of film, the narrator attempts to reconcile with the impossibility of creating a new work, ultimately yielding a collaboration with his parents, and a desperate and laborious refusal/acceptance of the cinematic.

Directed and edited by Rodney Murray
Dramaturgical collaboration with Ryan Louis
Special thanks to Fadi Skeiker

https://vimeo.com/541101463

DEAD BIRDS DON'T FLY

but if i don't move, how will you see me? situates queer visibility at the center of its study, considering ghosts of queerness, or notions of the Derridian "trace" within and underneath normative architectures and landscapes. Is queerness liberated if we align with its ghostliness, allowing ourselves to collide with pasts, presents, and futures? Where even are we?

https://vimeo.com/413751419

but if I don't move, how will you see me?

Why are straight men going "gay for pay" and what the fuck does it even mean? How does portraiture create character? How does portraiture create a moment both here and beyond?

https://vimeo.com/408922935

22 / 6'1 / 155lbs

An experimental short made for Solo Studies in Fall 2019. Utilizing self-portraiture, monologue, queer imagery, and distortion, this short addresses queer selfhood as a performative and erotic politic, one that is constantly failing and reasserting itself and located within a binary swarm of the here and now.

https://vimeo.com/405996333

solo

UNTITLED [TRAGEDY] is a film/play/study which utilizes queer imageries to locate meanings of eroticism, isolation, and impossibility between two queer men.

https://vimeo.com/406036361

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