Salise Hughes

Big Daddy Learns He Is Mortal

That which makes Big Daddy so big could be his big heart, his big belly, or his big money.

Stagecoach

The legacy of manifest destiny and the west

Yugoslavian Home Movies

Made from a collection of home movies, news footage and photos gathered from a residency in Belgrade in memory of a country that no longer exists.

Everyone I Have Ever Known

Based on a dream by poet Larry Crist who is also the narrator.

The Flapper

The buoyant energy of a modern woman who bobs her hair and dances to jazz is too often objectified and repressed by a figure like that of Robert Mitchum from Night of the Hunter.

The Flapper

The buoyant energy of a modern woman who bobs her hair and dances to jazz is too often objectified and repressed by a figure like that of Robert Mitchum from Night of the Hunter.

How to Draw Clouds

A meditation on the desire to hold on to the ephemeral.

Whidbey Video.

Edited from video shot visiting my family’s farm on Whidbey Island in Washington State during a thirty-five year period. A homage to the immigrant farm communities that were dying out when I began the project in the mid 70s.

LUCKY

Lucky begins and ends with a story/ monologue about luck. One man's single act of violence changes the course of world history.

The Education of Lulu

A film made in sympathy with G.W. Pabst, who followed Pandora’s Box in 1929 with another film featuring Louise Brooks. In this film he was investigating the social pressures that created women like Lulu. Made with footage of Diary of A Lost Girl, and historic photos of Magdalene Laundries from around the world.

The Devil’s Haircut

Two variations of the same modernist haircut, 40 years apart, both of which helped change the world’s culture.