Creosote and More
Chicago Filmmakers
San Francisco based artist Eric Saks? films and videos are innovative and challenging. His work has concentrated on culture at the intersection of technological evolution and personal desire, focusing on phone phreaking, gun control, hazardous waste, parthenogenesis, and forms of cultural jamming.
San Francisco based artist Eric Saks? films and videos are innovative and challenging.
His work has concentrated on culture at the intersection of technological evolution and personal desire, focusing on phone phreaking, gun control, hazardous waste, parthenogenesis, and forms of cultural jamming. Creosote (1997, 42 min.) combines two analogous stories into a unique vision of religion, individuality, and modern spirituality. The true story of Jared Negrete, a young boy who was lost on a Boy Scout camping trip and never found, is embroidered with the life story of St. Francis, also known as the ?hippie sain.? The arresting visual style, which uses stop-frame animation, speech-synthesized commentary, and a diarist storyline to dig into issues of gun control and get at his distaste for firearms. KNGR (1993, 15 min.) posits a view of redlining and segregation in the domestic life evidenced in a collection of suburban Los Angeles home movies and a scrapbook documenting local bus-line history. Touch Tone (1995, 29 min.) is a discursive diary about anticipating the millennium. The tape is structured around one phone-sex call.