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An attempt to reach Joan of Arc in her final moments as she beholds the beatific vision. To reach her, however, some anachronisms and a few propositions about psychology, mysticism, and eroticism were necessary. I consider myself a graduate of Catholicism and I believe the visual and intellectual aspects of my religious education caused me to cultivate a certain way of reading images; it also gave me a feel for the oxymoronic aspects of that phrase "reading images." The title "Mirror" was suggested by Hildegard von Bingen's "O felix anima," which is used as part of the soundtrack. The lyrics to the song appear in my own translation near the end of the piece. While Joan-as Hildegard's joyous soul would be a reflection of Divine Intelligence, the mirror alluded to suggested to me the idea of historical mirroring and of course Lacan's mirror phase. English medieval mystic Walter Hilton wrote a treatise he called "The Scale (or Ladder) of Perfection." After Hilton, I might have called this "The Mirror of Perfection," but I thought better of it. I have dedicated the work to Joan (Jehanne) herself, to Ghen Dennis who, as a media artist and curator at Squeaky Wheel in Buffalo, had some responsibility for inducing me to make this work, and to Chris Ofili whose recent black Madonna has been greeted with so many racist screeds disguised as righteous indignation by politicians and media pundits.

The history of an emblematic squat and its unavoidable transformation in the era of high-speed capitalism. 3 Mostra de Vídeo Independent de Barcelona 1996.

After many years of living overseas, the director meets his father in Shenzhen. The setting of the film is a Russian- made aircraft carrier named Minsk, which seems to have the same life experience as the director. With its past glory and memories, this huge carrier is now a major commercial opportunity. Chinese and foreign tourist swap their roles here. The way the director sees it, Minsk has been transformed from an enormous war machine into a money making machine.

In 1943, at the request of the American army, the University of Minnesota implements a psychological test for officer recruitment. The same test is later used internationally to recruit staff for private companies. "Relax, try to be sincere".

Karaganda, Kazakhstan's second-largest city, located to the south of the steppes, was built in 1930 by displaced prisoners over a coalfield in the immense Karlag. Today, the basis of the city's economy is disappearing, leading to considerable impoverishment. « Mine de Rien » documents a time of instability, of transition between two states, feeling abandonment and capitalist hope. A state that has passed and a state which is just starting, intangible, inevitable. The film follows this transition, which generates chaos, adaptation and suffering, revealing the impossibility of being : at a time when human beings can no longer be considered as a mass, but a sum of individuals. En exploding population mapped over the geographical structure of the city.

A documentary workshop that took place between the summer and autumn of 2004 in Barcelona and Vienna. Two groups of migrant teenagers are given the chance to use the cameras. A reflection on European migration that comes from migration itself.