Piercing Productions

A structuralist slow-burn investigation thriller. In a high-class neighbourhood in Rio De Janeiro a young woman is murdered. Detectives are contacted but the killer continues around.

Encounters in Light is the poetic documentation of two artists, friends, and lovers. The film eschews any biographical structure and instead looks at the ways these two artists are bound by time and light. Lawrence Jordan and Joanna McClure have extensive bodies of work between them. The film interweaves Joanna’s poetry, Lawrence’s films, personal interviews, and emotive imagery to produce a sensory engagement with a long lasting friendship and artistic practice. An understanding of mortality is ever present and the film let’s that feeling permeate throughout. How does one relate to years of love, friendship, and art? How does it resonate in the present moment? In the film, there is a sense of boundlessness and understanding that indeed, time dissolves all boundaries until there is only the possibility of light.

An experimental film shot on VHS. The personification of death traverses through separate stories discussing love, life, religion and beauty as she tries to help an assortment of characters through their final stop.

A non-narrative documentation on the humanity of youth in their early 20s, the situations they find themselves in, the way they look at their futures, in years to come will they look back at these days?

A letter to a younger self.

Three tapes defining the sanity of love.

A reflection on how the body and brain adapts after pain during a breakup or loss, how we change perception on certain situations, certain things in life, once we've lost something we feel is a big part.

A meditative stroll through Sacramento landmarks, from the gentrified to the urban.