Theo Macdonald

A woman tells her boyfriend a funny story about a barista in a local coffee shop asking her out. He wants to be cool and casual about it, but can't help reinterpreting the story in his head.

When an unpaid train fine comes back to haunt him, Ralph, a black British Brummie, flees London to a forest motel where a temporary hideout becomes a nightmarish purgatory and he's forced to confront the loss of his father.

"Waterfall Confessional begins as a montage of hazy waterfalls captioned with simple statements. The waterfalls are kitsch, in that they have a 'designed for television' profundity. Situated in a public space, like Masons Screen, I imagine the video as a storefront television from a Superman cartoon, the ones Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, and a crowd of onlookers, gather in front of to see what Superman is doing. In this case, Superman isn’t quite sure what he is doing. Like television news, it is sort of hollow.The text describes a moment of crisis, without providing much detail. These waterfalls transition into a series of spinning objects, of various scales, collected with a rapid, sincere dance beat. Muffled dialogue sporadically intrudes under the footage." - Artist Statement

A woman tells her boyfriend a funny story about a barista in a local coffee shop asking her out. He wants to be cool and casual about it, but can't help reinterpreting the story in his head.

A woman tells her boyfriend a funny story about a barista in a local coffee shop asking her out. He wants to be cool and casual about it, but can't help reinterpreting the story in his head.

A woman tells her boyfriend a funny story about a barista in a local coffee shop asking her out. He wants to be cool and casual about it, but can't help reinterpreting the story in his head.

When an unpaid train fine comes back to haunt him, Ralph, a black British Brummie, flees London to a forest motel where a temporary hideout becomes a nightmarish purgatory and he's forced to confront the loss of his father.

"Waterfall Confessional begins as a montage of hazy waterfalls captioned with simple statements. The waterfalls are kitsch, in that they have a 'designed for television' profundity. Situated in a public space, like Masons Screen, I imagine the video as a storefront television from a Superman cartoon, the ones Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, and a crowd of onlookers, gather in front of to see what Superman is doing. In this case, Superman isn’t quite sure what he is doing. Like television news, it is sort of hollow.The text describes a moment of crisis, without providing much detail. These waterfalls transition into a series of spinning objects, of various scales, collected with a rapid, sincere dance beat. Muffled dialogue sporadically intrudes under the footage." - Artist Statement