Beach Cafe

With very little money in her pockets, a young, street smart, starving actress, La 'Akea Roberts, leaves her home in Chicago and sets out to find her fame on Broadway, as a rich girl, Peyton Lee Parker, leaves her gilded-cage life style in North Carolina, in order to get out from beneath her father's rules and money, and heads for New York City. Coincidently, both young women find themselves renting the same apartment in the village. Though rightfully, the apartment is leased to Peyton, she allows La 'Akea to stay until she finds her own place. Unbeknougnst to both, the apartment belongs to a deceased mobster, Johnny Diamond, who happens to still reside there, in spirit. As Peyton, La 'Akea's and Johnny relationship takes shape, they also find themselves intertwined with the other eclectic residence of the apartment complex. "You, Me and Johnny" is a delightful, fantasy, dramedy; which is best described as a cross between a modern day female "Odd Couple" and "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir".

The lives of a snobbish family are turned upside-down by a surprise visit from their ill-bred relatives.

Organized around the principle of a tidal wave, the content of the video was shot with the participation of more than 170 visitors during a three-month residency at Recess Activities, Inc., a unique artist program/ gallery space in Manhattan. I built seven minimalist gray-scale sets inside the storefront space and invited visitors into conversation with the use of an intake form. The resulting video is a complex but cohesive experimental narrative about the experience of being overwhelmed. It is made up of interviews, reenactments, and performances conceived of in collaboration with visitors.

After a lot of trial and error, Hilde Reimer has finally decided to marry her late love Theo. Immediately after the wedding, Theo moves in with her in the Reimersche family villa - nothing seems to stand in the way of their mutual happiness. Or is it? While Theo soon gets to feel the idiosyncrasies of his new wife, Hilde quickly realizes that she can hardly keep up with the pace of the agile Theo in everyday life. In order not to worry him, she doesn't tell him about her mysterious dizzy spells. Even when Hilde faints while shopping and misses the plane to her honeymoon, she doesn't tell Theo about her health problems. No wonder that the deeply disappointed and hurt Theo begins to doubt Hilde's affection because of the canceled vacation and moves from the shared bedroom to the attic room for the time being. Even with Hilde's adult daughters, who also live with their families in the large villa, the house blessing is lopsided. While Anja waits in vain for her friend Karin, who went to Brazil alone, to finally get in touch, Sebastian fights to finally be accepted as the father of her child. Regina, meanwhile, returns to her old job at the bank with great success after her husband Robert loses his job - which soon leads to jealousies as the newly minted house husband finds the role difficult to cope with. The situation is very similar for Frank and Susanne, because Frank has the feeling that Susanne has never really accepted his job as a car mechanic and doesn't even see how much he puts in for her and little Viktor. Only when Hilde collapses again and is taken to the hospital do Theo, her daughters and their husbands finally seem to come to their senses.