Mark Taylor

The Monster at the End of This Story

The Monster at the End of This Story is Sesame Street special on HBO Max.

Sensing the World by Echo

A "Frankenstein's monster" of a movie, stitched together with parts robbed from the graveyard of B-movie horror and sci-fi films. A colorful, animated paper collage, the video is assembled from scraps of 1950s and '60s children's books, how-to manuals, science texts and encyclopedias. A "biography" using science fiction elements to explore the classic themes (otherness, paranoia, alternate reality) of the genre. The video is a life story constructed from pieces of other stories, much the way we base our ideas of self on pieces of information we receive from our environment.

Lesson 9

Lesson 9 is a short film about the loss of a lover to insanity. Part horror story, noir-like mystery and disaster film, Lesson 9 weaves together shards of a narrative that has been shattered like excerpts from the journal of a lover gone mad. A disaster movie after the disaster, the film uses three different definitions of possession to form its thematic structure and to explore love, loss, sexuality and insanity.

He Would Have Loved Me to Death

A slow motion sky is blotted out by a deep black helicopter that chases a woman off the screen. A coin spins in deep space. A hand grabs. It's hard to breathe. Peace is exploded. One struggle disintegrates into another as a relationship shatters and blows the home to bits.