Sam Wagster
YX is an allegory about cities, bodies, fluid media, privation and loss, in which hermetic spaces create hermetic narratives. Shot in 2007 in Chicago with performances by Evan Scott Rubin and Jeff Harms, production assistance by Sam Wagster, Britt Willey, Matthew Kellard, Chris Vlasses and Lizzy Lynette Vlasses. Music by Vaughan Williams and Paysage d'hiver.
You can also view the full page with stills here.
In 2007 I shot ten scenes for a feature length project called The Upper Air, but I was dissapointed with the results and scrapped the project. I've decided to re-edit the scenes into a short entitled yx, which will hopefully be finished next month. The themes and concept are very much the same as the original project: the privitization of resources and of bodies, the translation of hermetic spaces into hermetic narratives, allegories of ecologies in crisis. The new title comes from Stéphane Mallarmé's poem, Sonnet en -yx. The video has performances by Jeff Harms and Evan Rubin, and Sam Wagster was an immense help in the production. Below are some stills from the edit in progress.
