Mother's Glass (2009)

Directed by Diane Vallecillo

I did the costumes.

Emma's Flickr page

Norma's Fall (2009)

Directed by Rita Piffer Alves

Photos by Molly Brooks Livingston

I designed and constructed this costume:

I chose the scarves (the palette) for this costume:

Blue Eye (2008)

Directed by Chris Villareal

Blue Eye

I assembled my wardrobe.

Choices, Part I: The Blessed Virgin Mary (2009)

Choices, Part I: The Blessed Virgin Mary Trailer

Directed by Lukas Lukasik

I did the costumes.

The Man Who Hyper-Expanded His Mind (2009)

Directed by Matthew McKee

Photo by Christopher Villareal

I assembled my wardrobe.

The Man Who Hyper-Expanded His Mind (part 1)

The Man Who Hyper-Expanded His Mind (part 2)

zombie std

PREMISE: revealed gradually through duration of feature in tabloid TV news shows and The Mortician's Origin Myths

A sexually transmitted virus is symptomless until after death. About six hours after death, the corpse becomes sexually irresistible. Bodies and faces swell in sexually desirable ways. Even grandma looks sexier than she did at sixteen. Muscle contractions tighten stomachs, thighs, etc. and twist the body into sexually inviting positions. A fever roses cheeks and lips. Most importantly, most insidiously, overpowering pheromones instigate aggressive sexual arousal in anyone within ten yards of the corpse, relieved only by fucking the corpse.

The carriers suffer unbearable guilt and self-hatred in silence, unaware that anyone else has been likewise seduced by a corpse. The virus has an especially high rate of occurrence among health workers and morticians. They are not the only victims, however. Especially devout/devoted family members are also likely to fall prey to the disease--fucking their deceased kin. Suicide rates among the bereaved sky-rocket.

Biopsies are problematic because of the nature of transmission. Symptomatological diagnosis is impossible. The combined effect means the virus runs rampant, undetected for months. The epidemic is gradually identified due to the spike in health worker mortalities. Still, scientific identification of the mode of transmission is retarded by the reticence of the afflicted. Eventually, the nature of the disease comes to light.

Because self-identification as someone who has fucked a corpse is difficult to induce and impossible to rely on, the immediate destruction of all recent cadavers is prescribed to stymie the spread of the disease.

A Northern Californian, coastal mountain town populated by religious fundamentalists and secular libertarian/secessionists (Felton) refuses to comply with Federal law demanding the destruction of all corpses within the first hour of death being declared. As a result, the town in placed under quarantine. The residents may leave the remote mountain town only if they agree to spend two full moons in solitary confinement (the disease takes about a month to run its course and the majority of the casualties fall on or around the full moon.) The vacation homes in the town are abandoned and yuppies who consider it a "bedroom community" desert their property. The military rings the town with security gates, guard towers, and armed personnel in haz-mat suits and off-road vehicles.

AESTHETIC:

redwood trees for claustrophobia, chiaroscuro lighting, sublime & dirty, decrepit turn of the century architecture, cabins in woods (Evil Dead), dull drilling, slow building terror, bloody revenge, super dark comedy.

Sadistic 1965 Movie

An elite secret society initiates its members, one per year, as college freshmen. The society chooses two debutantes of equal beauty and social importance for each initiate. The initiate must simultaneously court both with equal intensity. He reports to the society on his progress. The society offers guidance whenever he goes afoul in his courtship just as successfully as they guarantee his career path--perfectly.

At a certain point, a full member of the society, selected as his mentor during the initiation rite, gets to choose which of the two debutantes the initiate is to marry. The initiate vows to treat his designated bride like a princess for the rest of her life. The initiate must deflower and systematically destroy the ego of the other debutante through a series of humiliations. He prostitutes her to the other members of the society and, ultimately, forces her to whore in a brothel entirely made up of women cultivated in the same manner by the society.

The mentor has full authority to choose the fates of the two girls regardless of the sentiment of the initiate because this privilege is part of the mentor's own initiation into the senate of the society. The other part of his entry to the senate is executing the debutante/whore of his youth. All the whores know their execution date once they enter the brothel. The members enjoy the whores' frenzy to curry favor and/or dejected submission to depravity and/or desperate and doomed attempts at escape as their execution approaches.

The protagonist has been assigned a mentor who is infamously sadistic. The protagonist is more in love with one of his debutantes than the other from the outset. Expecting his mentor to hurt him by making him destroy the woman he loves, he tries to mislead the society about his feelings toward the two debutantes. He manages to mislead the society, but not the mentor. The mentor chooses to destroy the girl the boy is in love with. The boy engineers an elaborate escape plan that results in a deadly chase, the lovers sacrificing themselves in the manner of Romeo and Juliet; but it's all a fantasy. The boy does as commanded and deflowers the debutante to begin the ceremony in which the mentor's whore is sacrificed. The sadistic mentor breaks down after he executes his whore--he was in love with her all along. He shoots the boy, as well, for being a traitor and misleading the society. The society covers it up as a hunting accident.