Daviel Shy

When a laid-off sex worker falls for a fitness witch in 2020 Los Angeles, it will take the help of an internet astrologer, cinema guru, cam model, retired dungeon owner, porn star and host of the supernatural, to craft a new way of loving.

A honeymoon in the desert turns sour when two lovers' acid-dipped raspberries bring them on a trip from which there is no return.

A re-imagining of Ovid's metamorphosis trope. Instead of Daphne transforming into a tree to escape from a God's intention to rape her, the violence is removed from the story and instead, her desire is foregrounded.

In Paris in 1928 American Djuna Barnes writes a farcical novel about the lovers, friends and publishing elite that make up "lesbian Don Juan" Natalie Clifford Barney's sordid salon. Dolly Wilde, Elizabeth Gramont, Romaine Brooks, Mimi Franchetti, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Liane de Pougy, Radclyffe Hall, Mina Loy, Janet Flanner and many more of the finest minds of her time enter her colorful book. Concocted to cheer up Barnes' ailing girlfriend, Thelma Wood, who is sick in the hospital, the story ultimately outlives the romance.

In conversation with Kenneth Anger's avant-garde classic, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), After the Pleasure Dome fuses slow hypnotic performance, live visual effects and underwater footage inspired by a myth overheard while visiting a Sacred Cenote (Cenote Sagrado) at Chichén Itzá. The psychedelic imagery asks: what precious jewels threaten to drown you? Which riches must your expel to survive?

A poetry film shot on super 8 with archival collage elements about water and resistance.

When a laid-off sex worker falls for a fitness witch in 2020 Los Angeles, it will take the help of an internet astrologer, cinema guru, cam model, retired dungeon owner, porn star and host of the supernatural, to craft a new way of loving.

A honeymoon in the desert turns sour when two lovers' acid-dipped raspberries bring them on a trip from which there is no return.

A re-imagining of Ovid's metamorphosis trope. Instead of Daphne transforming into a tree to escape from a God's intention to rape her, the violence is removed from the story and instead, her desire is foregrounded.

In Paris in 1928 American Djuna Barnes writes a farcical novel about the lovers, friends and publishing elite that make up "lesbian Don Juan" Natalie Clifford Barney's sordid salon. Dolly Wilde, Elizabeth Gramont, Romaine Brooks, Mimi Franchetti, Colette, Gertrude Stein, Liane de Pougy, Radclyffe Hall, Mina Loy, Janet Flanner and many more of the finest minds of her time enter her colorful book. Concocted to cheer up Barnes' ailing girlfriend, Thelma Wood, who is sick in the hospital, the story ultimately outlives the romance.

In conversation with Kenneth Anger's avant-garde classic, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (1954), After the Pleasure Dome fuses slow hypnotic performance, live visual effects and underwater footage inspired by a myth overheard while visiting a Sacred Cenote (Cenote Sagrado) at Chichén Itzá. The psychedelic imagery asks: what precious jewels threaten to drown you? Which riches must your expel to survive?

A poetry film shot on super 8 with archival collage elements about water and resistance.

Das Buffet is a willful pollution of film tropes and histories. For these sex-hungry lesbian cannibals, death is just the beginning. Filmed in Vienna, 2012.

Red rocks, open roads, and bodies under the desert sun. The rugged beauty of the landscape is transformed into a playground for intimacy, fantasy, and queer desire.