Jean-Paul Kelly

A short film about fictional actor Maxwell McCourtney, featuring the cast and crew of 'Enduring Love'.

Jean-Paul Kelly's elegant and enigmatic The Innocents is partially constructed around a shot-by-shot re-enactment of segments from the Maysles brothers' 1966 documentary With Love from Truman, with Kelly ingeniously recasting Capote's desire as the speaker. With its own formal predilections, the film succeeds in drawing parallels with the legendary author's brazen statements about form and style.

Movement in Squares is a two-channel video comprised of three documentary sources: video appropriated from a Florida-based foreclosure broker who documents the condition of bank-owned properties at the time of their repossession; studio recordings that document retrospective exhibition catalogues of painter Bridget Riley; voice-over narration from filmmaker David Thompson’s 1979 profile of Riley’s work for the Arts Council of Great Britain.

"Service of the Goods" is comprised of selected scenes from American filmmaker Frederick Wiseman’s seminal documentaries profiling state-run, tax-funded institutions, including "Titicut Follies" (1967), "High School" (1968), "Law and Order" (1969), "Hospital" (1970), "Basic Training" (1971), "Juvenile Court" (1973) and "Welfare" (1975). While creating shot-by-shot reproductions of each scene, including accompanying subtitled dialogue, Wiseman’s representational strategy–his overall production and editing process–is, itself, evoked as an institution subject to the same means of observation and expression.

A Minimal Difference is shot using a multi-plane camera setup and features receding cell paintings referenced from widely circulated press images.

Figure-ground features hand-painted cells filmed in receding distance with a multi-plan camera. Each scene is derived from photographs published online and depicting the aftermath of a death related to the 2008 global financial crisis.

A three-channel video installation (presented in its single-channel theatrical version) incorporating primarily a re-enactment of events witnessed in a London courtroom.