Joseph Byrd

Movies

The Ghost Dance
Music
The spirit of a long-dead warrior possesses the body of an Indian medicine man and turns him into a homicidal maniac.
Health
Music
Health is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
The Ski Bum
Original Music Composer
A ski instructor tries to teach a bunch of insanely eccentric people how to ski while dealing with everyone wanting his attention.
Lions Love
Music
Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie about actors and Hollywood.
7362
Music
7362 is concerned with dividing and joining together. It begins with two black circles against a white background, knocking together and gradually moving further apart. The circles fade out, and return as white circles against black inside a square. Images similar to Rorschach blots appear. Gradually the viewer realizes that the images were not originally abstract, but were human forms (dancers, gymnasts, etc.), bridges, and others that have been split down the center of the frame, with their mirror images printed on either side of the split. Red, green, and white tints further abstract the images from their original foundations in the natural world, making dancers appear to be amoebas or dividing cells. The accompanying sound track is a mixture of electronic music and musique concrète ("real" recorded sounds manipulated to sound abstract).