Domestic Production Videos

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Original domestic titles

This section collects original domestic productions and local content. Entries are listed with their titles and the dates recorded alongside them.

Listings here sit within the wider library, which also covers Chinese subtitles, hostess shows and the numbered video zones. Use the navigation above to move between categories.

The domestic productions gathered here reflect a quiet attention to the natural world and its subtle transformations. Light moves through glass and water, catching the eye in moments that might otherwise pass unnoticed. These works often emerge from patient observation of a single place over time, tracking how fog settles over a forest or how the afternoon sun shifts across a wooden floor. There is a sense of intimacy in these recordings, as if the camera itself has learned to wait. The result is a body of work that feels both personal and expansive, rooted in the rhythms of daily life yet reaching toward something more atmospheric and enduring.

Across these entries, material and environment become intertwined in ways that echo the artist's broader practice. Neon glow meets the organic textures of leaves and stone; ultraviolet light reveals hidden patterns in blown glass and plastic lenses. The domestic setting becomes a laboratory for exploring how artificial and natural illumination interact, how sound behaves within a room, and how the gaze can be directed or disrupted. These are not merely recordings of objects or spaces but investigations into perception itself, where the familiar is rendered strange and the ordinary becomes a site for contemplation and discovery.

The archive of domestic productions also traces a geography of influence that extends well beyond the studio walls. From coastal rocks and Pacific waves to the engineered interiors of spacecraft and historic buildings, these works hold traces of California's varied landscapes and the artist's travels through them. Even in the most intimate domestic scenes, there is an awareness of the wider world pressing in through windows and walls. The forest, the garden, the wilderness at dusk, and the flight of birds all find their way into these recordings, linking the private act of making to the larger cycles of nature and light.