The Irresponsibles was an experiment in extending the secretive quality of photographs into the cinematic dimension. Late photographer Diane Arbus put it best when she said that "a photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you, the less you know."

Photographs show us only a slice, leaving the rich fullness of the moment they refer to hidden. Film has a stronger reality effect, which makes it well-suited to the immersion required for drama, worldbuilding, and surrealist inversions, but I've always been drawn to its capacity to act like extended photography. In short: to act as a 'secret about a secret'. For The Irresponsibles, I crafted 'secrets' that we clue into via cinematic 'snapshots'.

I made The Irresponsibles for the 2019 Reel Loud Film Festival, which screens silent films with live accompaniments. At the festival the voice actors performed live while I controlled the sound effects and music.

You can watch The Irresponsibles below: