Explore my recent works.
Gay Guerrilla | 2024
In a collaborative documentary experiment, a dancer and a filmmaker explore composer Julius Eastman's Gay Guerilla. Through the lens of dancer César Valenzuela's choreography, we engage with a black queer composer who was almost lost to history and understand his work as an embodiment of pressing against outsider expectations of your body and your being.
Director of Photography: Hunter Taylor-Black, Director & Choreographer: César Valenzuela
Ding Pong | 2024
In this 16mm narrative short film, a keeps-to-himself clock hobbyist moves in to the spare bedroom of a decidedly quirky family during their annual ping pong tournament.
Director of Photography: Hunter Taylor-Black, Director: Serena McGrane, Editor: Eliza Jones
A Hummingbird’s Found Digital Song | 2022
What does it mean to observe a hummingbird? To watch as it flits from flower to flower as you sit beneath a tree? When we encounter the hummingbird, in whatever form, natural media is transmitted to us, every individual flash of color distinguishable is a transmission of wavelengths, just like the frantic buzz of its wings that disturb the molecules of the air. As human activity increasingly threatens the species, these digital imprints may one day be the only form in which this animal exists. In this critical media work based primarily in the concept of transduction, hues are translated pixel by pixel to a musical note. Through a wavelength to wavelength conversion process, we explore information in a new form, asking, what is revealed of an image by its representation in (un)familiar digital form(s)? What is lost?
Neither a strictly climbing film nor a story of queerness, this short documentary follows the story of three queer climbers as they share tales of carving out their own space in the climbing community through experiences of incredible mentorship, loss, and the embracing of their true authentic selves.
Directed, filmed, & edited by Hunter Taylor-Black.
Offwidth | 2022
A short video art piece, A Seat at the Table queers the narrative of sexual expectations. Created by two genderqueer artists and told through the words of poet Shaina Kaye, it illustrates a journey to find pleasure in sex despite traumatic history, religious expectations, and a misogynistic narrative surrounding what sex should be
Cinematography & Edited by Hunter Taylor-Black. Written by Shaina Kaye.