The films of Chel White explore dreams, memories, love, alienation, and obsession. White's narrative perspective is often that of the estranged individual; the outsider looking in. His films paint indelible pictures of the human experience. Described as both a black humorist and a cinematic poet, Chel White's work is intricate, sublime, and beautiful. He is the recent recipient of a Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship. From Berlin to Hong Kong to Sundance, his films have been shown in film festivals all over the world and recognized with numerous awards.   "Chel White's short films are unpredictable journeys through obsession and allegory, where the individual is at the center of his insights."

-South Carolina Arts Commission

 

Chel White DVD compilation Thom Yorke project
 
 
 

Based on a one-hundred-year-old poem by Antonio Machado,
 WIND is an allegorical perspective on climate change. PRESS KIT

 
 

Dark and humorous, this extremely short film features a
  stream-of-conscious look at the writing process, told with
 animated images straight from the subconscious...
 or somewhere. PRESS KIT

 
 

A first love is corrupted as a man recalls his affair with a beautiful
  circus contortionist in this stop-motion animation of wooden manikins. PRESS KIT

 
 

A fractured fairy tale of one man's strange obsession.   Darkly humorous, Dirt is also an ecological parable for the 21st century. Written and narrated by Joe Frank. Starring Evan Knapp.   "A very original and inspired work."

-Stockholm Int'l Film Festival

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Humorous and sublime, this is the ultimate Xerox fetish film.   The film's images are brought to life from an ordinary office copy machine. "True art in the age of mechanical reproduction - a rhythmic celebration of a photocopier's cinematic potential."

-Filmfest DC

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Enigmatic images trail the path of a poem, exploring one aspect of grief when a life is eclipsed. PRESS KIT

 
 
 
 

Haunting underwater portraits of people are juxtaposed with archival film footage of war
  and atrocities in this stylized film collage.  Passage deals with the poetic and the terrible,
  with innocence and corruption.
"An eerily beautiful rumination on the passage between birth and death."

-Bill Smith,  Willamette Week

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A complex study of alienation and sexual obsession.   Soulmate explores longing and objectification through the story of a landlady and her younger male tenant. Based on a radio play by Joe Frank. Starring Vana O'Brien and Randy Russell. "A bold and unsettling film...with chilling acuity, confronts sexual loneliness or rather, allows it to confront us."

-Todd Haynes

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