Kyle Beechey
2021Celebration
Kyle Beechey
Imagine waking up in the most perfect American suburban landscape. Carefully manicured lawns, pristine white picket fences and not a spec of litter in sight. Welcome to Celebration, Florida, the town that Disney built. It pushes the classic Americana tropes to the nth degree. CELEBRATION questions this perfection, can it all be real? Through colored filters and handheld camera it provides and interpretive study of place.
Celebration
Static Jello
Kyle Beechey
A 1960s Jell-O advertisement revisited and revised. The initial values of the perfect suburban nuclear family are transformed through techniques of bleach, paint and punching holes in the celluloid. Through the use of freeze frame, nuanced subtleties embedded in the advertisement take on new meaning. The idyllic and seamless Jell-O fantasy is displaced.
Static Jello
Blushes
Kyle Beechey
BLUSHES is an exploration of the body. It contrasts gentle imagery of the female form with stark geometrics and powerful rushes of color. Self-depiction and tangible manipulation of the filmstrip establish a new agency for the filmmaker. Through its confrontational nature it subverts the gaze from viewer to subject.
Blushes