ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, 2005,(23 minutes), single channel video

Winner of the Programmer's Choice Award at CINEMATEXAS 2006.

This semi-narrative re-enactment video, compiled from bits of newpaper articles, a novel, an exposé, and an Oprah special, follows real events that took place between the years 1993 and 1995 between a young boy who writes a best-selling memoir of his abusive upbringing, his foster mother, and a famous novelist, whom he has never met in person. When a meddling reporter begins to snoop around, the triad is thrown into confusion.

With Dale Hoyt, Kevin McGarry, Jill Zimmerman, and Patrick Palermo. Special music by Nick Hallett and Sara Marcus.

Premiered at Rotterdam International Film Festival, 2006

Jon Davies created my favorite context for this video: http://www.jondavies.ca/BadBoys.htm