ORTVI presents No Going Back Before Present

Dear friends,

I am pleased to announce that ORTVI is now streaming my 2016 film No Going Back Before Present free of cost for a limited time on their website (it will continue to be available afterward but for a small cost).

I created the film while living in Southern California and shot it using a 4K drone camera on location at Lake Piru in Castaic, the Del Valle Oil and Gas Field in Val Verde, and both the Petrochem Refinery and the Water Purification Plant in Ventura. Originally conceived as a full-album music video for my album Stressings (2016), the work explores the Anthropocene’s arrival into commonplace knowledge via an omniscient eye-in-the-sky looking down at humans’ effect on the earth (the Greek word for human “άνθρωπος” has a connotation with “looking up” [i.e. when man finally stood up on 2 legs and faced the sky]). It is also worth noting that I had help editing the film from the wonderful filmmaker James Benning, who reminded me that “we hear better in the dark and see more clearly in silence.” I am extremely pleased this film finally has a home and, in many ways, No Going Back Before Present is an ode to my 7 years in Los Angeles — a time of exponential growth which I am still unpacking today.

For now,

Jordan