Double Feature: Self Insert and Bad End
Self Insert and Bad End are a set of two short films, two installations, and representative of two years of study at Cornell University. The work spans the genres of science-fiction, musical, horror, romance, and slapstick comedy. It comments on tendencies within queer theory, religious dogma, and online communities to moralize elements of ourselves that we cannot control - our desires. These works, both the videos and the installations, have been created with a dysphoric sensability in mind, through their collaged construction, overstimulating audio-visual qualities, and the trans in-jokes and references to queer fandom peppered throughout. This is a personal quest to explore how desires create their own realities, a revelation of how desire is a mysterious yet crucial element of subjectivity, and a plea for solidarity between marginalized genders and sexualities. Above all, it is a cautionary tale of suicidal theory and suicidal theology.