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8mm tests/outtakes from Chemical Meadows, along the Hackensack River in Kearny near the new NJ Transit bridge currently under construction. These shots ended up not having a place in the film because, while the entire lower Hackensack is now a Superfund site, this particular bit of shoreline is not.

The actual full film shows this Wednesday, June 25, 7pm, at @smackmellon in DUMBO, followed by a conversation with @pallavisuranaa (and your chance to grill me on Meadowlands ecology, history, photochemistry!)

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landscape.179, a storm of flowers

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water qualities, dutch kills.

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The Panopticon, 2020/25

ICE never went away, but they're stepping up the viciousness of their operations again, abducting people from their due-process immigration hearings and shipping NYC high school students to Texas. Two days ago, city officials were denied access to inspect the ICE detainment facilities here, at their regional offices on floors 9 and 10 of the New York Federal Building downtown.

Protest at 5pm today a Foley Square, and every day outside the Federal Building.

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landscape.176, the convulsive botany

a last shuddering efflorescence swept the empty lands for a week and then was gone

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Emulsion Geographies, Kearny Drum Dump #5,

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landscape.177, dissolving hilltop

the deterioration began in the high places, further from view, but soon fanned out down slopes and coursed unstoppable through once-ordered valleys.

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Water Qualities, Gowanus 2025

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A fire in East Orange.

Why do so many of my long bike rides through New Jersey end with coming upon something on fire? (I was told everyone got out okay.)

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Terrain vague, Brooklyn.

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I updated my reel. Direction, cinematography, editing, also some animation and design. Let me know if you need me.

Containing clips from:

Iron Triangle (2018, co-directed with Maya Edelman) Drift Roards, Neck Creek (2018) Vacation (2019) Urban Growth (2020, co-directed with Nathan Kensinger) Sanctuary (2020) Triboro (2021) Light Leak (2021) Now Close the Windows (2021) Monocellular (2021, co-directed with Farah Abdul-Rahman) 15 Backyards (2021) Special Coastal Risk District (2021) Fire & Ice (2022) The Regional Plans (four docs, 2022) Holding on for Tonight (directed by Ben Wigler & Sophia Canfield -- I was cinematograper and editor, but not director, 2022) Specters of Watch Oak (2023) ywnhx (2023) Wetland Shadows (203, co-directed with Nathan Kensinger) Leaky Ship (2024) Another Day in the Experiment (2024) Chemical Meadows (2025) Ageographic (Forthcoming) Water Qualities (Forthcoming) +some odds and ends from other projects

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Winter Jersey shores.

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landscape.175, luminous effluent . what the structures were designed to produce was never firmly understood, but sunsets became more spectacular following their establishment. . FOR SALE, ink and copic on handmade paper, 4 x 5", $110. First to DM gets it! . I've also updated the Disaster Landforms etsy with other recent landforms, but feel free to just contact me if you want one.

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landscape.174, biome rupture that which had been changed could no longer be put back