Cole Seidl

Hoxha is an experimental film triptych. Comprised of 3 screens shot on 3 different formats: Canon DSLR, Super-8 Film, and iPhone 6s. The film consists of juxtaposed images from 3 cities in Albania. Gjirokaster, the birthplace of Enver Hoxha. Tirana, the capital city, location of his government, residence, and death. Berat, a historic ottoman city, and location of the Antonio Gramsci Battalion’s first fight against the Nazis. Through these three screens, we explore the Albania of the past via images of the Albanian present, with a look towards their future. We explore trauma, both personal and national, and the ways that the past remains alive in the present, and forms the future. Hoxha is dead. Hoxha has not yet been born. Hoxha lives.

The Iron Peony is a Romance told through the lens of Gothic Horror. Naive American newlyweds find themselves stuck in a nearly abandoned hotel in the mountains of Transylvania and as each day goes by they become more irritated with each other and even more suspicious that something sinister is brewing at the hotel.

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The Six Moral Tales tells the existential story of a fugitive making his way through the desert towards Mexico where he meets a deeply religious man on self-imposed exile. The two wander the desert like a purgatory and debate their violently conflicting views of morality.

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Based on the novel by Alain Robbe-Grillet. A series of repeated situations and moments either reveals or obscures the truth of the relational dynamic over the course of an evening.

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Max hasn't left his apartment in nearly a year. After waking up to the inexplicable appearance of an eyeball on his window ledge, he is overcome with anxiety as he is seemingly encouraged back out into his city.

Max on IMDB.

Travelogues is a continuing series of short video essays I create by editing whatever footage I am able to gather while backpacking. They are a combination of documentary, home video, staged scenes and archival footage which are infused with some sense of narrative meaning through the edit. Sometimes they take form into what is essentially a short film, other times they focus in on small cultural details, or even develop into a travel show gone haywire.

For years I have been gathering footage while I travel, and have imposed rules of creation, that the films must consist of 70% unscripted, unstaged footage. Only in the process of editing can I begin to write and formulate a story or structure. 

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I have a large and constantly changing photography practice. Many of my photos serve as aesthetic and thematic explorations for films I intend to make, where others are merely experimentation, documentation, and creative portraiture. 

These are a few examples the type of work I have done.