Single channel video w/ stereo audio, 5 min 41 sec, 2023
"Haxan: Reducida" is an abridged recreation of the 1922 silent documentary horror film "Haxan." AI synthography, found footage, and language translators recreate select scenes from the original "Haxan" in lost sites of middle class, leisure, and vacation. This film reinterprets the phantasmic beliefs of witchcraft in the Middle Ages and applies them to modern environments.
Single channel video w/ stereo audio, 5 min 6 sec, 2021
An invitation from one stranger to another to open up about their very first car. A sighting of a witch and a chair to sit in. Opacity is a short video honoring the cryptic and restrained, using obscure symbolism, narrative distance, and an unresolved journey into a hallucinogenic netherworld. The latest short by Michael Mersereau explores semi-biographical events blended with an atmospheric narrative in otherworldly landscapes.
Single channel video w/ stereo audio, 5 min 20 sec, 2020
“Confessional” is a short video about a child's first seizure and descent into a technicolor hell scape of prophetic visions and faceless creatures. An absurdist experimental horror piece, its atmospheric storytelling insinuates a post coup suburban paradise and a journey into the underworld.
Single channel video w/ stereo audio, 5 min 6 sec, 2022
"Ameri-Paranoia" is a hallucinogenic nightmare, a character caught in paranoid repetition, scavenging guns, as the past burns around him.
Molissa Fenley / Michael Mersereau, single channel video, 2018
Video of dances created for the Catherine Wagner exhibition, Archeology in Reverse, at the Mills College Art Museum, . Choreographed and performed by Molissa Fenley. Dances captured and edited by Michael Mersereau. Sound by Michael Mersereau.
Single channel video w/ stereo audio, 1 hr 37 min 56 sec, 2012. Remastered, 2022
The full feature of 'Suspiria', with all sound replaced by similar sound spaces collected in the Bay Area, California and Montreal, Quebec.
Single channel video w/ stereo audio, 1 hr 37 min 56 sec, 20 12
"reverse view", utilizes two rear projections and foley to create the illusion of driving. An experimental dedication to driving in cinema, from film noir to classic Hollywood, by exposing the means of film production and highlighting the ordinary.
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