Mark Toscano Movies

After discovering a set of cryptic microcassettes in her new home, Cas is drawn into a meditative mystery of environmental sound and experimental...

When feelings are reduced to keywords, it’s a lot easier to find just the right soundtrack. And when an emotional response can be so readily...

Sometimes you just don’t know what to say about something you’ve made, whether it’s a painting, a movie, a sandwich, or a mistake....

Truth as held to be self-evident, however inconsequential or ludicrously subjective. Truth as not a matter of opinion. A meaningless game of...

“A film about control. A refinement of energy for purposes of conserving resources, materials, impetus, potential, so they might all be...

A potentially valuable lesson in history and authenticity is sabotaged by poor supplementary materials. (Mark Toscano)

Not a critique of consumer desire and the forces that fuel it, which are comically horrific and beyond depressing. Just a dumb joke for the...

A deceptively (?) stupid commentary on the disposability of information in this, the dawning of a bold new era of thinly spread knowledge and vastly...

This film came out of nowhere, and very early in its brief making became, for me, a crystallization of all the confusion and amazement I feel about...

It may be that exhibitionistic displays of emotion are purely for the benefit of the demonstrator, in an act of self-indulgent catharsis, but that...

Mark Toscano, 2014

An experiment in re-ordering one kind of information turned into something having to do with the power the material has over the maker once I tried...

Brine is sodium chloride (NaCl) dissolved in water. If you perform electrolysis on brine you will get three substances: chlorine, hydrogen and sodium...

A rite of passage, an emptying out of things, and a process of emotional alchemy.

Certain things you remember. These are two of them, remembered by my father, as we drove north on S. Las Vegas Blvd in November, 2011. (Mark Toscano)

An experiment in bringing together two field observations of two completely different activities from two disparate times and places. I joined these...