Apple Pie is a 10-part creative/critical cinematic complex that compartmentally surveys various relational intersections between modes of astronomical observation and the evolution of human agency.

The film is a large-scale feature-length artist film shot on super 16mm film in Aoteaora New Zealand, Samoa, and during a 5 day meteor shower filmed at a remote mountaintop astrophysics observatory deep in a US western desert. The film significantly features Samoan dance artist Ioane Papali’i and 25 other “cast” members.

The “narrative” of the film follows a messy but vibrant trajectory, oscillating between anchors of meaning amidst a cosmic ocean of ecstatic potential and possibility; noise and silence; matter, meaning, and the resonating chambers of nothingness.
The trajectory becomes a calibration, questioning who we are, how we got here, and establishing our position within the confluence if existential matter and agency. A lensing of the past and present in order to better bring the future into focus.

Modeling its structural architecture from the solar system, Apple Pie is anatomically designed to function as an existent complex structure through which vibrant conceptual ecologies organically manifest via the same processes of accumulative observation, association, and multilateral extralinguistic translation that we inherently employ to make sense of, and navigate through the world around us.

Apple Pie is not available online and is only available for dedicated screenings and exhibition installation.