Self-Reflexive Video

This three-DVD collection features 18 titles, 10 years of videography, and over six hours of material by Donigan Cumming.

"Cumming has said that it is his intention to question, "the myth of the innocent, invisible photographic witness." Borrowing from what he calls, "experimental ethnography," Cumming consciously positions himself not only as investigator, but also participant, caretaker and friend. Thus his examinations of human frailty are always tempered by a compassion that stems from his own involvement in the situations he records."

A young man is finally able to leave behind his unrequited desires and longings and move on.

This title is only availible as part of the Mike Kuchar compilation Thoughts and Feelings. 

A young man yearns for a mysterious lover.

This title is only availible as part of the Mike Kuchar compilation Thoughts and Feelings. 

"It was as if I was living by the Nike slogan Just Do It."
— George Barber

Morayngava: the “design of things.” Yngiru: the box of the spirits, the films, just like xaman dreams. This is how the Asurini define video, which has just arrived in their village. After discovering that it is possible to store their images, the old men lament that they never stored images of their ancestors and decided to register the initiation of a xaman, a tradition threatened by new times.

Directed by Virginia Valadão and Regina Müller.

In Assurini with English subtitles.

Thoughts and Feelings is comprised of five short works which are a part of Mike Kuchar's ongoing Soul Searching Series. Each episode is designed with reflective, meditative, and philosophical tones, expressing the emotional and problematic state of existence. This collection is sensual and mood provoking.