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NORMALIZATION
(15:27) 2008
film/video: Michael Sumner
story: Melody Sumner Carnahan
voice: Robert Ashley
Premiered at “Word Virus,” The Process, November 23, 2008, at the Santa Fe Complex, New Mexico.

SEE YOU IN HELL
(Will we be punished later or is this it?)
(03:16) 2007
video: Michael Sumner
words: Melody Sumner Carnahan
voice: Elizabeth Wiseman
sound design: Dino J.A. Deane

SEE YOU IN HELL
(original installation version) 2006
Two video loops, two audio loops, all different lengths. Always new juxtapositions of images and sounds.

BETWEEN 5TH & 6TH
(16:40) 1984/2007
film/video: Michael Sumner
words: Melody Sumner Carnahan
voice: Alex Neville
music: The brilliant Dullards
Filmed from the window of a car driving around the block in San Francisco. Stop lights and traffic determined the pacing, rhythms, and framing of the camera.

NO HEAVEN
(03:11) 2004
video: Michael Sumner

VULCAN
(02:03) 2004
video/music: Michael Sumner
Drama . . . in three found photographs.

IT SHOULDN’T BUT IT DOES
(04:02) 2004
video/music: Michael Sumner
Ordinary moments but what's really going on? Images made with still cameras. Soundtrack made on a broken tape recorder.

THROBBING GRISTLE 05/29/81
(07:11) 1981/2008
film/video: Michael Sumner
The last live concert of Throbbing Gristle in the 20th century at the Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco on May 29, 1981.

VIEW
(07:17) 1987/2009
film: Michael Sumner
People on Twin Peaks in San Francisco looking around. Men pointing.

STATIC
(03:35) 1984
film: Michael Sumner

FEATURES
(13:45) 1983
film: Michael Sumner
words: Melody Sumner Carnahan
Faces. From magazines, newspapers, and books. A list of human attributes.

SPECIFIC INSTANCES
(07:00) 1981
film: Michael Sumner
music: “Begin Again” by Anthony Gnazzo
voice: Louise Phoenix
Glimpses of people in San Francisco and Oakland doing ordinary things.
• Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1982

INK, BLEACH, & RAZOR BLADES
(01:00) 1978/2011
film/video/audio: Michael Sumner
Hand made film. Clear leader and unexposed Super-8 film stock altered with ink, bleach, razor blades, etching needles, sand paper, etc.

BLANK
(03:27) 1977
film: Michael Sumner

WALK
(03:53) 1977
film: Michael Sumner

ARTIST’S PROOF
(03:05) 1976
film: Michael Sumner