For twelve years I lived in Florida. The longer I resided there, the more I noted the difference between the way I viewed the state, and the way tourists and natives saw it. This contradiction is the basis for TROPICAL DEPRESSION. The film is a collection of sound and image ... any element which suggested the mood or tone of my vision was considered. The result is an intensely personal perspective ... a Florida postcard, so to speak; however, one that I don't expect you would find in a souvenir shop on Clearwater Beach.
"... TROPICAL DEPRESSION uses images from Florida's boom to create an alternately elegiac and terrifying manic essay on the Sunshine State's ersatz paradise. The potent, recurring image of a grainy billboard picturing the Solarcaine lady wincing in masochistic pleasure as she sprays her parched, carmine hide is the film's most telling motif." - Linda Dubler, Curator of Film, High Museum of Art
1987, 16mm, color/so, 10m, $30
"Like any worthwhile piece of art, LEFT-HANDED MEMORIES can be read several ways. Images of frames and framed materials recur. Pages of a dictionary flip by, and it is here that the viewer can see a reference to Will Hindle. Entry words echo his film titles - BILLABONG, CHINESE FIREDRILL, etc. A soft-focus female nude, reminiscent of an Edward Weston photograph, becomes increasingly scratched as the footage runs, a memento mori of the plastic material itself. Much, the film tells us, is beautiful, and much will be forgotten. As the tail of Hindle's CHINESE FIREDRILL runs in an exquisitely small horizontal strip across the bottom of the frame, the last light flares, signaling the end, and the quiet title, "for Will," appears, I feel that, yes, it is beautiful, and not forgotten. Not quite yet." - Tom Whiteside, Independent Spirit, Spring 1990
Awards: Best Experimental Film, 28th Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival (also included in national tour); Best of Festival, ARTSWATCH Film and Video Festival; Silver Medal Award, Charlotte Film and Video Festival; cash award, 21st Annual Sinking Creek Film & Video Festival; Director's Choice, 10th Annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival (also included in national tour).
1989, 16mm, color/so, 15m, $45