Gentle Fiddling
Gentle Fiddling, animation, 2:31, 2024
banff artist in residence summer, 2024
Digital illustrations, 44” x 44” inkjet prints on enhanced matte.
Site-specific Animation
Studio Idle, 1:30m, animated loop, Banff Center Studio, Summer BAIR 2024
Installation view, Studio Idle, Banff Center Studio, Summer BAIR 2024.
Crisis in masculinity
Crisis In Masculinity 1
2015/2024
3D Animation, silent
:47
Crisis In Masculinity 2
2015/2024
3D Animation, silent
:45
Crisis In Masculinity, still from video performance, 2024
if on occasion i have wondered
2024
It was after our breakup,
She asked me to split it.
I fitted the check
With no note
Into the crack
Of her door
Relieved she wasn’t home.
If there were a lost one
That I never knew,
I would pity the fat fool,
Worry for their mental
And pray they abstained.
If on occasion I have wondered
Who that person might have been,
I apologize.
I think of the ones I spared
Never to exist.
No angry mornings, no dangerous nights,
No slow build of psychic pressure
Only later to blow.
I never wanted to pass down
This billowing body,
This meandering mind.
I thought I would not have the courage
To love you through it.
If On Occasion I Have Wondered
2024
Video Poem, sound
1:15
Rotoscope Drawing
2023
I Want Out Of This Body
2022
I WANT OUT OF THIS BODY
2022
3 Channel Animation
:30s, Loop
3D Animation Loops
molecular Covid
Drastic Treatment
a zine
Drastic Treatment was originally published as a social media essay via darrendouglasfloyd.com and pushed to Twitter, Instagram and Facebook two posts per day between December 25th, 2019 and January 16, 2020.
Click to read the full zine. Drastic Treatment
Experimental essay about masculinity, prostate cancer, androgen deprivation therapy, eunuchs, castrati, and spadones. Proposal for critical spado studies, a subfield of gender studies, concerned with understanding masculinities through the lens of the spado: a liminal masculine identity from which gender, sexuality, society and politics can be viewed and understood uniquely.
2D Animation Loops, with zine
troubling bodies
Something Wasn’t Right
An exhibition of zines and looping animations developed from the content of the CancerGram.
3D Animation
moire sins
Cancer Stream
Self Portrait As A Live Streamer
2018
HD Digital Video, sound
2:58
Created using Signal Culture apps during a live streaming event.
CancerStream
2018
HD Digital Video, sound
2:01
Zine with 2D Looping Animation
FROM THE MIDDLE OF RADIATION
THROUGH A FEW WEEKS AFTERWARD
Destroyer of Dreams, Or, Container of All Future Meaning
2014
16mm color film and digital video
Experimental Documentary Film
14:23
At the age of 37, I experienced a sudden and surprising moment of clarity: I want to be a father. Realizing that my future child would only know me as an older man, I began shooting a filmed letter on 16mm to help explain who I was before s/he was born.
I Have No Children
2014
1:06
16mm color film, transferred to video, digital video, sound
I Don't Think That Way Anymore
2014
3:50
16mm color film, transferred to video, digital video, sound
My Life Is A Beautiful Dream
2013
:55
Digital video with sound
She Might Have Been Your Mother
2013
2:20
Digital video with sound
My Life Is A Hideous Nightmare
2013
1:10
Digital video with sound
Melancholy Birthday
2011
single channel digital video, sound
2:59, loop
What Will Become
Of Her
2011
single channel digital video, sound
3:06, loop
This Is My Life
2011
single channel digital video, sound
3:00, loop
Installation view, Melancholy Birthday, What Will Become Of Her, and This Is My Life, 2011
There's Nothing Wrong With Me That Hasn't Always Been Wrong With Me
2012
16mm film transferred to video
9-channel video installation, silent
:27, loop
Installation View of There's Nothing Wrong With Me That Hasn't Always Been Wrong With Me, 2012
The Bolex film camera has been an important tool in my work. I have considered the length of a Bolex shot as a conceptual container for moving images. These shots, about 27 seconds in length on my camera, lend themselves well to portraits, self-portraits and continuously moving landscape shots that I call ‘continuations’. I have made several multi-channel video pieces using grids of small monitors with a single 27-second shot on each monitor. What Is Wrong With Me Has Always Been Wrong With Me is a set of nine self-portraits taken over a decade of shooting.
Installation View of There's Nothing Wrong With Me That Hasn't Always Been Wrong With Me, 2012
Search For The Future
2010
16mm film transferred to video
5-channel video installation
various lengths, loop
Self-Portrait As A Christain Saint
2009
single channel digital video
1:53, loop
Self-Portrait As Contented Madonna
2009
single channel digital video
1:53, loop
Self-Portrait As A Minor Cardinal
2009
single channel digital video
1:53, loop
How To Live
2009
16mm color, transferred to video
Experimental Narrative
2:01
When How To Live Was Undecided
2009
16mm color, transferred to video
Experimental Narrative
14:30
The Hope EP
2008
16mm film transferred to video
5-channel video installation
various lengths, loop
Get In Here
Cancergram