An avant-garde superhero film in five parts. Parsley's structuralist response to the genre.

Shot and edited on 16mm Kodak 3383 color print stock, hand processed by MONO NO AWARE.

Various robotic narrators tell stories, get into arguments, and speak on isolation within this avant-garde essay film.

Empty Throne features Josh's empty apartment in footage that was sourced from archives of Josh's past YouTube videos. Empty Throne was originally conceived and displayed as an infinitely looping video for projection in a gallery setting. This is the film version complete with opening credits as well as a dedication to Josh Saunders (KingCobraJFS).

"This film is a culmination of my meditations with objects, both with and without a camera present, in order to attempt 3 things: breaking down the binaries that separate me from the objects, destabilize my hierarchical position over the object, and to peer into the objects' history and their possible thoughts/emotions. The title is the combination of two essential reference points: Notes From Underground (Dostoevsky) and A Cyborg Manifesto (Haraway)." -Connor Parsley

Poetic film about labor and color.

Experimental short film by Connor Parsley. Skimming deals directly with the corporeal world coming into violent contact with the digital. Its structure and shapes are drawn from that of the handheld screen of the cellphone. This is simultaneously a hopeful and a depressed film about being a very small, intensely controlled organism in a hostile world. Also, one must ask oneself today in 2024, “Is the constant stream of light, images, sounds, and videos coming from my palm actually cinema or something else entirely?”

A structuralist poetic film about Christmas.

A cinematic attempt to cast a hex.

A short, flashing experimental film about obsession, idols, and the internet.