As a filmmaker and photographer, I tend to hone in on surrealism, brushes of humor, and psychological horror to make sense of our shared existential dread in the modern world.
This series features Matthew Van Gessel as the “clown.” We set out to capture the traditional aesthetics of a clown within the obtuse dwellings of his inner world. All the frames are set up to invoke some discomfort or sense of “danger,” using elements of the precarious environment to tell a story of a character who’s far more anxious than his outfit and facepaint may suggest.