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  • The Ecology of Dreams 

    Image/ text study of Los Angeles: last outpost of the West; the culmination of U.S. cultural history. Less the Tinseltown of sun and surf, rather a 21st Century megalopolis forty years into neoliberal capitalism: a city of corporate empires and militarised police forces, gated communities and environmental catastrophe. L.A. is also a city of deep mystery and strange beauty, where wild animals roam the night and forked histories lead down occult corridors. Combines documentary, history, fiction: in L.A. reality and fantasy are in a terminal feedback loop. 

    The title is inspired by Reyner Banham’s book The Architecture of Four Ecologies, which found the meaning of Los Angeles in its four 'ecologies': the beaches, freeways, flatlands and hills. The city’s fifth ecology, I propose, is that of dreams, which are famously central to the city and the national identity.

  • POST-WESTERN LANDSCAPE.

  • I WAS DRIVING IN THE COMPANY OF A STRANGER.

  • THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME (Executive Limo).

  • OWEN'S LAKE (Halobacteria)

  • AT THE DAWN OF THE LEISURE SOCIETY.

  • THE POWER (of Their Knowledge).

  • BEYOND THE PLEASURE DOME.

  • IN THE KINGDOM OF THE DEAD.

  • MARATHON REFINERY.

  • THE GHOSTS OF CHARLES MANSON AND IBM MEET IN CAESAR’S PALACE.

  • BUILDING 95, 1460-1474, UNIT No. 999-1006 (Nickerson Gardens).

  • A LABYRINTH WITHOUT A CENTRE.

  • TEMPLO DE LA SANTA MUERTE.

  • HAMBURGER OUTLET NEAR THE AIRPORT.

  • WRECK OF AN UNKNOWN EXECUTIVE LIMO (80s).

  • THE FUTURE OF AN ILLUSION (Century Drive-In).

  • SEMIOTIC GHOSTS.