Interstate Project (video series)

The Interstate Project is an ongoing series of short video experiments designed around original footage shot at a traveling circus encampment alongside a busy Texas highway.

It serves as a critique of popular media practices in the United States—the fetishism of surveillance, the status of detained foreign bodies, the irony of cultural appropriation, and the detached compulsion of witnesses.

"Interstate (part one)" is a night surveillance artifact. Elephants and zebras move in circadian rhythm while tracers from passing automobile traffic flash across the screen in waves.

2006, Video, 6 minutes

"Interstate (part two)" uses a Choubi-style pop song from Iraq, “Oh Mother, The Handsome Man Tortures Me,” as the basis for a caged tiger dance video. The original 40 second source clip has been manually remixed for time and syncopation with the song’s gunfire-inspired beat.

2007, Video, 4 minutes