Film
Still from Let's Make Love and Listen to Death from Above featuring performers Camilo Godoy and Jorge Sánchez.
Part of the series “It’s Just Business, Baby,” the film and related work examines the histories of various forms of body labor across the Chelsea district that was renown as a site for sex work, sex clubs, and "illicit" public sexual activity. The series, which includes Super 8mm narrative portraits and photographs, forgoes any attempt to “authentically” represent the past in favor for making images that foreground the desire and affect that still roam and haunt the Chelsea district.
The narrative portrait films re-animates those “illicit” trades that took place across the meatpacking district. The films intentionally lack a soundtrack in an effort to have audiences follow what the image is doing rather than the sounds associated with the image (specifically sex). Each narrative film features a series of “moving stills” that are gathered from a cinelarger directly from the original Super 8mm film.