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A meta-hybrid feature film where the filmmaker dies in his own creation, setting off a plan where the filmmaker's father carries out his son's final wish. The film combines documentary and fiction techniques, as well as aspects relevant to art and performance. Won Best Feature Film at the Queens World Film Festival. (90 min.) 2012.
A feature film combining two story lines - one documentary and one fiction - that unify to mourn the loss of "the Mother." The documentary half of this feature is an edited version of the short film, The Boat (below). Premiered at Anthology Film Archive, NYC.
(76 min.) 2006
The Boat
A poignant documentary chronicling the unorthodox funeral request of a young mother carried out by family and friends during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Premiered at Museum of Modern Art, NYC. (30min.) 2004
Fake Flowers, Part V (doubting t.o.m. (the old man)
David Dixon re-performs an edited version of the text from Fake Flowers, Part 2 (K516) as The Old Man, an audio only, spoken-word "opera" with original music by Grammy winning composer, Fernando Otero. (23 min), 2003
Zeno's Paradox
Two short videos, Hermes Always Faces North and God's Cage, are edited together using a system derived from Zeno's paradox.
MsLO
An invented Chinese character,"Lo", is painted and explored in relation to its definitions as the cardinal points, compass, third person omniscient, or dispassionate remove. (11 min.) 1998
Pop Art
Shot on set during the filming of the feature film, Unloosened and Root, this video loop features character actor, Dan Snow, reflecting on the nature of pop art. (looped) 2006
Fake Flowers, Part 2 (K516)
David Dixon as The Prophet performs a text derived originally from sketchbook notes and structured by Mozart's String Quintet No. 4 in G minor. (36 min) 1994
A Letter to Hugh
Recorded as a video letter to update friend and mentor, Hugh Corbin, as to Dixon's then latest studio pieces. This conversational letter includes the full video piece, MsLO, as well as many discussed artworks both now extant and defunct. (68 min.), 1998
Hermes's Chlamys
Hermes as escort, a video loop, 2000
Hermes in the Woods
Shot in 16mm film, the two constituent film tracks are edited such that Hermes, stripped of his defining implements, is encapsulated in a landscape not his own, and looped. 1994