Block Chain
2022

Block Chain single off the $ollar$ Self Titled album.

End of Cars
2022

End of Cars single off the $ollar$ Self Titled album.

Growin Old
2022

Growin Old single off the $ollar$ Self Titled album.

Supremacidal Tendencies
2022

Imagines eradicating white supremacy groups that lead to Jan 6 with the strategies of removing invasive plant species by the roots. Filmed on location with over exposure whiting out Mount Rushmore where kkk sympathizer sculptor Gutzon Borglum destroyed The Six Grandfathers sacred granite mountain.

Vaccine
2022

Vaccine single off the $ollar$ Self Titled album.

Bigger
2022

BIGGER single off the Skullture Self Titled album, describing all the bigger things that YOU, WE, THEY, and I all NEED.

In the Woods
2022

In The Woods single off the Skullture Self Titled album. The LP is a fuzzed out distorted smash & bash noise bomb of 13 jams with lyrical content pertaining to the political landscape, global warming and cultural critique being released May 1, 2022.

Bark
2022

Bark that Barks. Part of the Ice House video Installation.

Dark Breaths
2022

A monologue on climate change, covid, and environmental anxieties accompanied by percussion on oil drums. Part of the Ice House video Installation from Macdowell.

Land Within
2022

A poetic monologue contemplating the landscape within.

Ice House
2022

A music and video Installation in the former Macdowell Ice house. Icehouse featured videos of ice forming and harvesting accompanied with live percussive scores with ice tools, songs, and monologues on climate change environmental anxieties.

Ice Harvest
2022

Archival Ice harvesting accompanied with live percussive scores with ice tools and drum machine. Part of the Ice House video Installation.

Skating Backwards
2022

Blue Barrel rolls as a mess of footprints and cans litter the snow to the song Skating Backwards. Part of the Ice House video Installation.

Gasssed
2022

Self Imolation Failure projected on a Gas Can.

Trap
2022

Personification of a Trap as it is dragged down the road in Wyoming.

Kittie Paws
2021

Song describing and filming the actions of the Kitties of Istanbul, music by $ollar$.

Circle Moon
2021

A montage of Istanbul circles following trash to simit to luxury items was edited to a soundtrack of percussion performed by artist Ege Kanar playing bendir and myself playing locally made custom cymbal blanks.

Bosphorus
2021

Excerpts exploring the Bosphorus with soundtrack of Bosphorus Cymbal percussion played by drummer Erdem Eroğlu.

Electric güğüm
2021

Electric güğüm, amplified vessels wired with contact mics are played focusing on the güğüm’s function of filling, holding and releasing.

Istametabul
2021

Wall of Constantinople rubble walk with soundtrack composed of construction tools played percussively with rebar from rubble sites.

Stair well
2021

Feedback with glass vessels and stairwells in Istanbul.

Stop
2020-21

Roaving stop sign posts up on various street corners.

Thirteen
2020-21

1 minute video of street objects flashing with a bike light with counting to the #13 and drum soundtrack for minute 13 of Exquisite Moving Corpse a collaboration by Chip Lord, Jack Massing, and Sean Miller, 2020 - 2022.

Car Door
2019-2020

Door turned into a car and flinstoned down the street.
PLAY EXCERPT

Car Windows
2015-ongoing

Photo collection montage of Car Window Repairs as Abstract Improv Paintings over broken car windows.

COVID19 Global Warming Elect Pandemic
💀ture
Day of Noise - Feb 8, 2020 4:00-4:20-4:30am
KZSU Radio Stanford University Collaboration with Lee Lavy

Live Video Soundtrack to the Noise of the corona virus, impeachment, primaries, Australias Fires, melting glaciers brought on by Global Warming followed by 420 Marsupial Love. #skullture #dayofnoise
⛓🦠🧟‍♂️🧱🕳🚨📝✂️🔥🌊🌲🐨🦘🌬🥁🎸🎚 🔊💀ture⛓� 🔊💀ture⛓

Proud not Proud aka Merican't
2011-2020

Deconstruction of Lee Greenwoods GBtheUSA... song as I take a proud to be shirt off and on.

💀ture
BART TOUR - July 20, 2019
Frank Ogawa Plaza in Oakland and 16th St Bart in SF, CA - Collaboration with Lee Lavy

Roll the Skull to and on BART with beats as we ride the rail and shows in public space.

Psychoactive Web
Internet Archive's 2018 Artist in Residence Exhibition
Ever Gold [Projects]
July 14 - Aug 11, 2018

Video 12 min
Psychoactive Internet.

Interweed
Internet Archive's 2018 Artist in Residence Exhibition
Ever Gold [Projects]
July 14 - Aug 11, 2018

Video 11 min
Cannabis and the internet: collective potential and results.

Space Preserve
Internet Archive's 2018 Artist in Residence Exhibition
Ever Gold [Projects]
July 14 - Aug 11, 2018

Video 1.5 min
Video from canning & preserving to Space.

Pothole Beard
Feb 18, 2018

Beard transplant to pothole Sat Feb18 at 23rd and Minnesota st #concretedream #faceplant #narcissus

Bay Cycle

Bay Cycle Video documents the 288 mile trek around the San Francisco Bay with Nolan Jankowski for Bay Cycle 2016. 2 versions:
3 channel of 3 sections of the ride and 3 channel POV of Front, Rear, and Keeping the Bay on the Right.

💀ture
Live Acconci- April 27, 2018
Abondoned Pier SF
Collaboration with Lee Lavy

Live Acconci for the anniversary of Vito Acconci's death. RIP. First song Acconci played blindfolded after Acconci.

94110: Episode 1
collaboration with Michael Friedman
Premiere Date April 2, 2017

Television Pilot 94110 imagines the story of tech executives living, learning, and loving together in San Francisco's Mission District, 94110. Starring Scott Vemiere, Jennifer Locke, Gregorio Figuroa, Matt Shapiro, and Tony Labat as Carlos Santana. Music by Oh Sees.

Goatscapes
Contemporary Jewish Museum
Sep 28, 2017–Jan 28, 2018

For Jewish Folktales Retold: Artist as Maggid, Goatscapes follows a goat with a bell as it roams through a variety of locations from rural to urban, industrial to residential, low income housing to condos, developed to empty lots around the Potrero Hill neighborhood of San Francisco. Watch Making Of

Bay Memes

Sayings while tired during the 4 day 288 mile trek around the San Francisco Bay with Nolan Jankowski for Bay Cycle 2016.

Hoof & Foot
Manetti Shrem Museum U.C. Davis
November 2016 - April 2017

Commissioned Video installation that highlights the symbiosis relationship of learning between UC Davis’ animals & students as seen through a series of visual comparisons using the hoof and foot as a grounding point.

Tree & Turf
DAAAM Chico State University Art Gallery
November - December 2016

Tree and Turf traverse from the bottom of dried up Lake Oroville Reservoir across the Dam to Oroville the nearest town.

Hoof & Foot Trailer
Manetti Shrem Museum U.C. Davis
November 2016 - April 2017

Commissioned Video installation that highlights the symbiosis relationship of learning between UC Davis’ animals & students as seen through a series of visual comparisons using the hoof and foot as a grounding point.

Fountains of SFMOMA
Arthur Allan on Marcel Duchamp
@SFMOMA - July 29, 2016

Arthur Allan Live Video feed a tour of the Fountains of SFMOMA to ipads next to Duchamp's Fountain. Arthur starts at the top Allan starts at the bottom. Part of the 50 Artists: Arthur Allan on Marcel Duchamp. Watch Audience Video

DAAAM
California 2014 - 2016

Slide show of California Dams with matching 'DAAAM" audio.

Blu Scuba Blu

Diving into a recycling bin Blue Scuba diver swims through the blue plastic waters. Collection Recology Artist in Residence.

Lunar Eclipse

Upon completion of a red lunar puzzle the Red Samuri climbs the peak to cause the Eclipse. Collection Recology Artist in Residence.

Silver Space

Silver Spaced Man collects trash and debris and returns to the medical tent for review. Collection Recology Artist in Residence.

Leopard

Leopard looking for Leopard. Collection Recology Artist in Residence.

Castaways Trailer

September 19-30, 2015
Recology Artist in Residence; San Francisco, CA

Clothes Contact: Wheeled Conveyance Ghost Sign

Former Clothes Contact By The Pound store sign from 16th and Valencia is rebuilt as a wheeled conveyance and returned to its former residence. Clothes Contact By The Pound store sign, Metal, Plastic; Video. WATCH on Vimeo

Plastered
February 2015

Documentation of cutting off my beard with a utility knife and plastering it in the wall.

Islais Creek Walk Promo
Water Shed in Off Shore
Southern Exposure

Documentation of the Watershed Crew preliminary 5 mile Islais Creek walk from Glen Park Canyon to Islais Creek Channel with a city block length of rope.

WATCH on Vimeo

Mission Creek Walk Promo
Water Shed in Off Shore
Southern Exposure

Documentation of the Watershed Crew preliminary 4 mile Mission Creek walk from 18th and Market St. to Mission Bay with a city block length of rope.

WATCH on Vimeo

Yosemite Creek Walk Promo
Water Shed in Off Shore
Southern Exposure

Documentation of the Watershed Crew preliminary 2.8 mile Yosemite Creek walk from McLaren Park to Candlestick Point (Yosemite Slough) with a city block length of rope.

WATCH on Vimeo

Islais Creek 4 Man Walk
10 min - San Francisco May 10, 2014

Documentation of the Watershed Crew preliminary 5 mile Islais Creek walk from Glen Park Canyon to Islais Creek Channel with a city block length of rope.

Islais Creek Walk
22 min - San Francisco June 1, 2014

5 mile Islais Creek walk from Glen Park Canyon to Islais Creek Channel with a city block length of rope and 40 people.

Mission Creek 5 Man Walk
13 min - San Francisco June 7, 2014

Watershed Crew preliminary 4 mile Mission Creek walk from 18th and Market St. to Mission Bay with a city block length of rope.

Mission Creek Walk
26 min - San Francisco June 21, 2014

Mission Creek Walk (4 miles) from McLaren Park to Candlestick Point (Yosemite Slough) with a city block length of rope and 40 people.

Yosemite Creek 4 Man Walk
18 min - San Francisco June 14, 2014

Yosemite Creek Walk (2.8 miles) from McLaren Park to Candlestick Point (Yosemite Slough) with a city block length of rope.

Yosemite Creek Walk
19 min - San Francisco June 28, 2014

Yosemite Creek Walk (2.8 miles) from McLaren Park to Candlestick Point (Yosemite Slough) with a city block length of rope and 45 people.

Path of Least Resistance
Water Shed in Off Shore
@ Southern Exposure

Bike rides documenting the flow of water along the paths of least resistance. Using the Creek and Watershed Map of San Francisco, Sollars retraced the paths of the current and former creeks upon the contemporary city grid to develop the routes for the walks.
Islais Creek, Prectia Creek, Mission Creek, Hayes Creek, Yosemite Creek, & Lobos Creek.

Hayes Creek - Path of Least Resistance
14 min - Water Shed in Off Shore
@ Southern Exposure

Bike rides documenting the flow of water along the paths of least resistance. Hayes Creek 2014 - 14 minutes
Split screen of two tributary seasonal creeks that form Hayes Creek and run into Mission Bay.

Islais Creek - Path of Least Resistance
9 min 49 sec - Water Shed in Off Shore
@ Southern Exposure

Bike rides documenting the flow of water along the paths of least resistance. Islais Creek 2014 - 9 min 49 sec
Water is bottled and carried from Islais Creek Spring in Glen Park Canyon to the mouth of Islais Creek on the bay.

Lobos Creek - Path of Least Resistance
7 min 51 sec - Water Shed in Off Shore
@ Southern Exposure

Bike rides documenting the flow of water along the paths of least resistance. Lobos Creek 2014 - 7 min 51 sec
Lobos Creek followed in the Presidio to Baker Beach. Includes conversation with Old Timer in the woods.

Mission Creek - Path of Least Resistance
13 min - Water Shed in Off Shore
@ Southern Exposure

Bike rides documenting the flow of water along the paths of least resistance. Mission Creek 2014 - 13 minutes - Split screen of four tributary creeks Old Arroyo Dolores & Arroyo Dolores forming Mission Creek and enters the bay. The walk will follow Arroyo Dolores down 18th Street.

Precita Creek - Path of Least Resistance
15 min - Water Shed in Off Shore
@ Southern Exposure

Bike rides documenting the flow of water along the paths of least resistance. Prectia Creek 2014 - 15 minutes
Split screen of two tributary creeks forming Precita Creek to Islais Creek on the bay.

Yosemite Creek - Path of Least Resistance
8 min 49 sec - Water Shed in Off Shore
@ Southern Exposure

Bike rides documenting the flow of water along the paths of least resistance. Yosemite Creek 2014 - 8 min 49 sec - Water is bottled and carried from Yosemite Creek Spring in McClaren Park to the mouth of Yosemite Creek on the bay.

Bag v1
San Francisco October 2014

1 bag / 1 person performance on the street.

86d
Islais Creek

Refurbished 86'd Kayak paddled from Islais Creek homeless camp to Larry Ellison's Yacht docked at the mouth of San Francisco Bay to tag his boat with the # 86, during the 2013 America's Cup.

Drum & Stairs
SFMOMA
June 2, 2013 1:30 AM

Chris Sollars on Stairs featuring Mads Lynnerup on Drums
Chris provides live video feed of the stairs for drummer Mads. Performance for SFMOMA Future Countdown Live, developed around the removal of the stairs.
WATCH on Vimeo

Fixed Gear
Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Fixed Gear 2013 Mission Creek Motebecane bike frame, barnacles, with sourced bike parts rebuilt as working fixed gear bike.

WATCH on Vimeo

Holding Water
13 minutes - Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Found street objects used in attempts to hold water.

Lemon Song: Andreas Slominski remake
do it (outside)
Socrates Sculpture Park & Independent Curators International
Sunday May 13, 2013

Instruction - Andreas Slominski: Tip a bicycle seat so that the front points upwards and use the seat to squeeze lemons.

WATCH on Vimeo

Shoreline
69 minutes - Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Walk of entire San Francisco coastline from Candlestick Point to Ocean Beach drawing a line with found driftwood Rudder.

The Swimmer
18 minutes - Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Sollars revisits John Cheever's short story The Swimmer, traversing his way across San Francisco from Bay to Ocean via a network of pools and fountains in a Speedo.

The Swimmer Exhibition Trailer
Steven Wolf Fine Arts
October 26 - December 20, 2013

The Swimmer features photos, videos, and sculptures that intertwine street and sea through endurance actions and the transformation of objects. Sollars created a waterfront studio in the Bayview and repurposed a series of barnacle-encrusted objects pulled in from the bay for use back in town. WATCH on Vimeo

The Swimmer Trailer
Steven Wolf Fine Arts

Sollars revisits John Cheever's short story The Swimmer, traversing his way across San Francisco from Bay to Ocean via a network of pools and fountains in a Speedo. WATCH on Vimeo

Pacific Puddle Pedal

Pacific Puddle Pedal 2011-2012 documents a jarred street puddle pedaled to and exchanged with Pacific Ocean water to make a salt water puddle on the street. Watch

Albacore Alley

7:00 am • 59ºF water • 40 miles off shore
Albacore Tuna from Ocean to Mouth
Albacore Tuna Fishing Excursion with fisherman Marc Alley that ends at Chez Panisse with Head Chef Jerome Waag. Included in Pacific Tackle Monterey Fish Walkin Freezer Installation. Watch on Vimeo

Horizon Line

Pacific Ocean Horizon Line captured from fisherman Marc Alley's boat. Static Camera shot for video projection. Included in Pacific Tackle Monterey Fish Walkin Freezer Installation.

Crabbin

Crabbin, on going documentation of fishing excursions on the Pacific with fisherman Marc Alley for Pacific Tackle. Viewed at Rock Bar 2012.

Oysters

Chroma keyed Oysters overlayed with documentation of swimmers and fishing excursions on the Pacific with fisherman Marc Alley for Pacific Tackle. Viewed and served with raw oysters at Rock Bar 2012.

Swims with Fishes

Camera angle from the bottom of a pool filming swimmers the size of fishes from below. Included in Pacific Tackle Monterey Fish Walkin Freezer Installation.

COFFFEE & DONUTS promo

Utilizing this former Mission Police Station as a set, Sollars will activate the former station through actions, sculpture, and taste and make the inaccessible areas of the home visible through video. Southern Machine Exposure Project is a project developed by Southern Exposure (San Francisco) and Machine Project (Los Angeles), involving 20 combinations of artists and performers from LA and SF.

COFFFEE & DONUTS

Home of Bruce Tomb and Mary Sheppard with Liz Glynn & Nate Page"It Gets Dark. Utilizing this former Mission Police Station as a set, Sollars will activate the former station through actions, sculpture, and taste and make the inaccessible areas of the home visible through video. Southern Machine Exposure Project is a project developed by Southern Exposure (SF) and Machine Project (Los Angeles), involving 20 combinations of artists and performers from LA and SF.

Saturday Morning Cartoons

Saturday morning walks with an open mug of coffee through the San Francisco Mission 2011-2012 set to roadrunner and willie coyote cartoon soundtrack. Watch

the Missing Pig

version 1.
Cook Bacon, do not serve.

version 2.
Cook Bacon, do not serve, hide in front of live camera feed and transmit bacon image sporadically.

water for coffee

Water gathered for coffee from around the house faucets, tubs, and Bruce Tomb's basins.

Joint Rorschach

Water gathered for coffee from around the house faucets, tubs, and Bruce Tomb's basins.

ARTHUR ALLAN: CITY HALL PROMO

Arthur Allan through a series of actions will investigate the unoccupied open space of San Francisco civic buildings. In this series of interactions the pair will make use of the banal and the mundane, producing video works and sculptures that investigate the civic aesthetic and its function. Watch

ARTHUR ALLAN: CITY HALL

Arthur Allan through a series of actions will investigate the unoccupied open space of San Francisco civic buildings. In this series of interactions the pair will make use of the banal and the mundane, producing video works and sculptures that investigate the civic aesthetic and its function. Watch

Crossing the Rubicon (Secret Societies) Promo

Bohemian Grove promo for Crossing the Rubicon group show curated by Kottie Paloma at JAS Gallery in Paris.

Left Behind walk Feb 2011

Chris Sollars takes one of his afternoon walks making public sculptures with found trash and debris on the streets of his San Francisco Mission neighborhood. Sollars documents the sculptures with photos and leaves them behind.

Trash Rain

Trash Bag of collected neighborhood trash thrown out of his 2nd story window. Trash Rain is a video a part of PlayFill a multimedia installation for the exhibition Trash at the new children's museum of San Diego.

Pile of Trash San Diego

Narrative following anthropomorphic Trash from Mirmar Landfill, through downtown San Diego to Balboa Park the former landfill where they encounter a group of children. Pile of Trash San Diego is a video a part of PlayFill a multimedia installation for the exhibition Trash at the new children's museum of San Diego.

Private Collection San Diego.

Digger Bread

Artist Chris Sollars, Steve Sullivan from Acme Bakery and James Whitehead from Fist of Flour bake Digger bread in cans while David Simpson and Jane Lapiner recount stories from their experience as Diggers.

déjeuner sur la barbe

déjeuner sur la barbe (to lunch on the beard ) 2011
a new video by Chris Sollars & Jerome Waag

Hairy - 3 channel video

Hairy Sculpture material becomes focus for the 3 Channel Videos that get ruptured. The rupture simulates the instantaneous shift / change that happens with a cut of Hair, Video, or Wood through quick bursts of close-ups and sound. Features: Hair Grain, Beard Rub, Beard Object, Hair Ball, Hair Lay, and Shave.

Beard Object

Pulling objects out of the beard.

Beard Rub

Extreme Close Ups of rubbing my beard on objects and surfaces around the home.

Shave

Shaving my beard with a razor sharp axe in front of a redwood tree.

Hair Lay

Hair laid over objects around the 667 neighborhood.

Mishaps

Sollars investigates Failure through a multi-media installation of Mis-haps, consisting of a fleece security blanket to wear while they watch a compilation of short video mistakes.

Shipwreck

Video documenting the deconstruction of a sailboat brought to San Diego's Miramar Landfill. Dedicated to the Workers of Miramar Landfill and the city of San Diego Environmental Services Department. Video filmed in conjunction with the exhibition Trash at the new children's museum in San Diego.

Whiskey Waxing Promo

Come wax your whiskers and sip whiskey.
Whiskey Waxing is a two part event by artist Chris Sollars in conjunction with Comstock Saloon and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. A Twist of the Stache to San Francisco's Past.

Whiskey Waxing @YBCA

Come wax your whiskers and sip whiskey.
Whiskey Waxing is a two part event by artist Chris Sollars in conjunction with Comstock Saloon and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. A Twist of the Stache to San Francisco's Past.

Whiskey Waxing Competition 2011
Comstock Saloon
August 15, 2011

Welcome to the 2011 Whiskey Waxing Beard & Mustache Competition. Whiskey Waxing is a San Francisco Bay Area competition celebrating local hairy talent on the old Barbary Coast. Contestants judged on their form & ability to sip whiskey or tea.

Marc Alley Fisherman

2010 short documentary about Bay Area independent fisherman Marc Alley as a part of a collaboration with OPENrestaurant for OPENwater a SFMOMA off-site project at St. George Spirits in Alameda, CA.

OPENwater: Plight of the Salmon & The Damming of the San Francisco Bay

Live archival footage mixing of the shifts on and to San Francisco Bay accompanying a Chinook salmon dinner without any salmon. The first course will map a small part of the California water system. The central ingredient is sardines caught off the coast of central California, & anchovies, another salmon food, caught by Marc Alley, a local fisherman who has not fished for salmon for the last 4 years.

ARTHUR ALLAN:
Public Service Announcement for
Yerba Buena Gardens

ARTHUR ALLAN was recently commissioned to do a Public Service Announcement for Yerba Buena Gardens. The announcement aired this past weekend at an event held in the gardens and was attended by Mayor Gavin Newsom.

Home on the Range

In conjunction with Alison Pebworth's solo exhibition
Other Possibilities of drawings.

Northwest Circle

Vancouver Island B.C. to Missoula, Montana
Excerpts from Alison Pebworth's Beautiful Possibility Tour 2010
www.beautifulpossibilitytour.com

Glitter Box Promo

Chris Sollars survey of works and 56 seconds promo for show
cut to Quadrospazzed by Thee Oh Sees off their album The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In.

Colon Pattern Loop

Crash zooms of patterns from Ian Colon's home and clothes with Thee Oh Sees remixed.

Ian's LP Portrait

Portrait of Ian Colon Glitterbox curator through portraits in his LP collection.

BP Spin

British Petroleum green sun spinning.

Iraq Blackout

Iraq black shape held up and filmed around San Francisco simultaneous and edited to President Obama's Iraq withdrawl speech.

ri-FLEKT install

Sollars created a series of works juxtaposing the interior and exterior of WE, utilizing the Bus stop and neighborhood for a series of interventions, sculptures and videos.

ri-FLEKT promo

Rorschach Sleeper

Reflected video of man sleeping.

Trouble Everyday 2010

Frank Zappa's 1966 song Trouble Everyday with the Mothers of Invention remixed for 2010.

Trouble Everyday Promo

667Shotwell Summer Show Promo

2010 Summer residents Neet and Brian Moran present works and the Owl Cave Book Store in conjunction with the 667Shotwell video archive

Chroma Sculpt 2010

Video Series of Chroma Keyed Left Behind Sculptures.

ARTHUR ALLAN Promo

Arthur (Brion Nudah Rosch) and Allan (Chris Sollars) promo for 667Shotwell Show.

ARTHUR ALLAN Lunch

Arthur (Brion Nudah Rosch) and Allan (Chris Sollars) TV on Table lunch performance with kitty voices, filmed at Arthur's, shown at Allan's kitchen table.

Behind, Beside, Inside & Videos from ARTHUR ALLAN

Hallway Projects for ARTHUR ALLAN
at 667Shotwell performances by Allan at Arthur's,
Re-Projection of Arthur's Living space at Allan's.

Bird Trap

Bird Trapped in my studio, flys around the space trying to get out. A moving crop confines the bird's flight space even more.

Brautigan

Sculpture & Video Installation Featuring 7 sculptures for 7 books by SF Bay Area writer Richard Brautigan. Videos feature both read passages, images of the women on each book cover, archival footage, and footage gathered at San Francsico sites referenced in each book.

Dead Dadullah

Video installation of a killed taliban leader Madullah Dadullah in 2007 whose dead body was presented in a pink sheet. Watch.

descandent un escalier

18 minute short in collaboration with Tomas Phillips

green bucket

A deleted scene from my film C RED BLUE J of my Father, sister, and myself in my Father's basement in 2005 finding the same green bucket that is under our 1976 xmas tree super 8 footage. This video loop is projected directly on the original green bucket.

Head Land

Short Film made during Headlands Center for the Arts Artist in Residence 2009, contemplating the landscape out the studio window.

MUMBAI SF

MUMBAI SanFrancisco is a 13 minute documentary short filmed one week after the Mumbai terrorist attacks from the perspective of Indians living in San Francisco.

FUTUR IST NOW:
Soundtrack by Matt Volla

Event: October 17, 2009 at SFMOMA Sanfrancisco, CA
in collaboration with OPENrestaurant for OPENfuture: Spinning Marinetti's Wheels. Live video projection mixing by Chris Sollars and live mixed soundtack by Matt Volla

Pipe Roll

Pipe North by Northwest

Sheet

Tarp

Time in a Bottle

Wedding Fall

C RED BLUE J
An experimental documentary feature that illustrates the complications of division during the 2004 Presidential election as it is manifested in one family. Director Chris Sollars, an artist living and working in San Francisco sets out to try and bridge the political gaps in his own family between a younger sister who works for the Bush Administration, a Born Again Christian father, and Lesbian mother. 79 min www.credbluej.com
Watch C RED BLUE J on VIMEO!

C RED BLUE J Trailer #1

C RED BLUE J Trailer #2
La Chinoise Remix

Big Tree Little Tree Storyboard

Protest Sign Screen Tests

Revolution 08

A bike wheel bent from a wreck with a tweaked out bicyclist is spun on my floor.

Baghead Eyerack

Tiger Wack

Chinatown Los Angeles, CA
In collaboration with Kottie Paloma and Archie Mckay

Artist Commercials

Drain

A flood with a bread dough levee is reconstructed in my bathtub.
The documentation of this performance is edited into the feature film
C RED BLUE J.

Jar / Drain

A flood with a bread dough levee is reconstructed in my bathtub, and is displayed on a TV monitor on top of its packaging box at waist high. A video projection of a jar of dirty water is shaken vigorously and appears sporadically.

Kimono News
Tokyo Japan

Performed with Charlie Canfield, Yoshinori Niwa, and others.

Pile of Trash

Trash gets up, walks, and sits down again in downtown San Francisco. Pile of Trash is both a single and multi channel video.

SF DRIFT

In collaboration with Charlie Canfield, Yoshinori Niwa, and Jos Pollard, and Takuro Kotaka.

TOKYO DRIFT

In collaboration with Charlie Canfield, Tokyo Art Beat, Takuro Kotaka, and Yoshinori Niwa.

Fiery Regurgitate

MElt the Pot

In collaboration with Jerome Waag.

Pile of Trash LA

Pile of Trash LA was performed on Hollywood Boulevard on the block around the artist space LACE before a talk on my work.

Swimming Hole Directions

In collaboration with poet Anna Vitale.

Come Walk With Me Tour 2002-2004

Private Collection

Come Walk With Me: Purple Haze with JC

Private Collection

Rambo Mujahideen

Red & Blue

Blue chases and straightens up Red in 2004.
In collaboration with Lee Walton

To Bury a Scream

I dig a hole in the middle of the night, scream, and bury it.
The documentation of this performance is edited into the feature film
C RED BLUE J.

Transcendental Scream

Olana, New York

Bjorn Again

Private Collections

Death Valley

Walking alone in the sand dunes of Death Valley shouting protest slogans against the Iraq War through a megaphone with Airforce jets flying overhead. The documentation of this performance is edited into the feature film C RED BLUE J.

Implicit Memory

Documentation of people tying their shoes in comparison to the artist's seemingly undeveloped method.

Come Walk With Me: Magic Carpet Ride

Private Collection

Pile of Trash

Trippin on e

We're Waiting with Mads Lynnerup

Private Collection

Women's World Cup Animated Drawing

Phone Tag

Collection of the Berkeley Art Mueum & Pacific Film Archive.

We're Waiting with Mads Lynnerup

Scream, Ice Cream, Box cutters, naked waiting, match towers burning, time flying, people waiting
Opening Reception: September 2001
New Langton Arts San Francisco, CA

Cityscapes

Collection of the Berkeley Art Mueum & Pacific Film Archive.

Seascapes

Memorial Day

Night Copier Attack

She Loves Me ... She Loves Me Not

Snowscapes

STAR WAS

Wall

washer

you lose ... try again

667 Neighborhood 1999

A Good Time to Finish Up Old Tasks

Holy Light St. Peters

Labyrinth at Chartes

Landscapes

Collections of the Berkeley Art Mueum & Pacific Film Archive and the private collections of Janine Antoni and others.

Lemonade?

Fresh Lemonade is served to an Audience. A jug with yellow liquid is displayed with a video of two versions how the Lemonade was made.

Mannequin Pis

My Bank

Jar - Collection of Will Rogan

Pantheon

Shaving

Sleep Time Lapse

Star

TEST

I took any HIV test and documented the process. In front of a group at Skowhegan I played the tape, pinned the phone number for the Test results to the wall, and left.

Touching God

Documentation of touching God in the Sistine Chapel.

We Lose Another Day

World Cup

Butt Project

Buying the News

Glove Wash

Making Bread

Freshly baked homemade Whole-Wheat bread is served to viewers.
A video shows me touching myself bare handed and making bread with gloves on.

Step on a Crack

Street Clean

I pick up trash, wash it and put it back. My first performance and video. The documentation of this performance is edited into the feature film C RED BLUE J.