Cracking up with Alec Baldwin and his daughter Carmen.

Robert Downey Jr. jumped into the photo.

In 2015 and 2016, I was involved with the film 'Imponderable' by multimedia and installation artist Tony Oursler. An early version of the film was shown at LUMA Arles (France) in the summer of 2015. The final version, containing many new scenes, is running at the Museum of Modern Art from June 2016 until April 2017. 

The film explores Tony’s interest in mysticism, psychedelia, popular culture, and media history, and employs macabre humor and theatrical surrealism. It is presented in a "5-D" cinematic environment using a contemporary form of Pepper's Ghost (a 19th-century phantasmagoric device) and a range of sensory effects.

I had a lot of fun working on it, as you can see from the behind-the-scenes video and the photos below. 

Tony had me play his grandfather, Fulton Oursler, seen in the bronze relief above.

A video I shot for this year's Tribeca Film Festival with comedian Duval Culpepper is now online. It was a delight to work with the whole production team.

An extraordinary exhibition of playing cards from the late Middle Ages opened at the Cloisters last night. It was an honor to be invited by curator Timothy B. Husband to perform card magic at the opening reception. I used a facsimile of a deck known as the Cloisters Playing Cards from the Burgundian Netherlands (ca. 1475–80), which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is the only complete deck from the period, consisting of 52 hand-painted cards with four suits pertaining to the hunt: Collars (for dogs), Tethers (for hounds), Horns (for hunting), and Nooses (for suspending birds or small game from the belt). 

You can read a nice New York Times review of the exhibition here.

Just an average night working at a wild party in downtown Manhattan. Thanks to the lovely make-up artists for my raccoon eyes!