Film

Producer, writer, director, cinematographer, editor, and everything else.

Way Out West

Documentary Short. Official selection of the 2026 New Orleans Film Festival, 2026 Yucca Valley Film Festival. Dave Easley and his pedal steel guitar go west to the Joshua Tree desert to record a quartet album of improvised jazz.

Texas musician Alex Dupree playing a vintage Gibson guitar

Alex Dupree – Texas Doesn’t Care/Fortunado

Live performance by Alex Dupree and band on a porch in rural Bastrop County, TX. The band performs a medley of two songs from two different albums.

Title card displaying pixelated text in English and Korean characters against a darkened blue garage interior that reads: Talking With Hands - Organic Machine.

Talking with Hands – Organic Machine

Official selection 2025 Defy Film Festival. Music video for 2024 single by Talking with Hands. Taking inspiration from classic 16mm body horror films like Tetsuo: The Iron Man, the film features one mad scientist’s struggle with his own unique LLM (large language model) that communicates through the medium of sign language, viz. “talking with hands.”

In black and white, a woman wearing a long dark shroud and sitting at a wooden table between two bowls, one of which is empty and the other piled high with chicken eggs. A cuckoo clock hangs on the wall behind her.

The Public Service Announcement

The Public Service Announcement is a short film made to accompany a spoken word Guma composition of the same name. Partially funded by an arts grant from the city of Austin Dept of Economic Development.

Chris Schlarb sits in a white suit and sunglasses and gestures toward a small fire that appears to be hovering over a body of water next to him.

Psychic Temple – Doggie Paddlin’ Through the Cosmic Consciousness

Music video for the 2024 Psychic Temple single from the album with the same name. Doggie Paddlin’ is a surreal journey through a bright and infernal landscape of body and mind.

Title card reads “Workingman’s Guma” in a thin, gray, all-caps serif font set against a light background.

Workingman’s Guma Trailer

Short trailer for the 2023 Guma album Workingman’s Guma. Shot around Bastrop County, TX, in late summer of 2023, the film features bucolic country imagery and even a nod to the notorious “gas station” from the original 1974 Texas Chain Saw Massacre, which is located on TX-304 just south of SH-71.