Masturbation in Space (commissioned for "Strange Attractors," book and DVD project [2012, 4 minutes, HD video, stereo]).

This video, commissioned by Suzie Silver for her Strange Attractors project, is a collaboration between myself and Mike Harringer, whom I met at a sci-fi book fair in 2009. Harringer recounts an extra-terrestrial abduction that followed a late-night conversation he had with his boyfriend about Whitley Streiber and Christopher Walken. Harringer's story is accompanied by CGI video sequences that illustrate his account of auto-eroticism-as-performance for curious, sex-positive alien anthropologists.

Direction, effects, sound, and edit by Joshua Thorson

Written and narrated by Mike Harringer