Biography:
I am a filmmaker and photographer from Placentia, CA but now reside in Chicago, IL. Before moving to the midwest to get my BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, I studied photography and worked at the darkroom at Santa Monica College. During my time in LA, I became infatuated with eroticism, especially that of the works of Robert Mapplethorpe and Peter de Rome, and found community working with fellow artists interested in exploring the psychological complexities of sexuality through the photographic image.
Since moving to Chicago, my work has shifted from photography to filmmaking as a means to add layers to the narratives I found emerging from my still photos. As well as this, I started learning about Lacanian with a psychoanalyst and began working his theories into my own filmic practices. Today, my work uses filmmaking as a language to understand and explore the intersection between; cinema, psychoanalysis, and homoeroticism. This is done through narrative structure emblematic of such theories, conjoined with emotional and visually striking imagery.
Filmography:
Hunger:
Experimental 16mm Black and White Short Film. 3mins. 2022.
Pan Eros Film Festival (Seattle, 2023)
Winner of “Best Silent Film Program”
Experimental Forum (Los Angeles, 2023)
Chicago Underground Film Festival (2023)
Cinema Soup Film Festival (Chicago, 2023)
Nominated for “Best Editing”
Europa Film Festival (Barcelona, 2024)
Nominated for “Best Actor”
San Francisco Porn Film Festival (2024)
Flat Earth Film Festival (Seyðisfjörður, 2024)
"What if We?" Pop Up Show (Chicago, 2023)
“Maybe Fake’s What I Like” Exhibition (Online, 2024)
“Processing…” Exhibition (Space.01, Chicago, 2024)
“Subversive Pleasures: Mapping the Problematic” Exhibition (SAIC Galleries, Chicago, 2024)
Annihilation:
Experimental 16mm Black and White Short Film. 5mins. 2024.
Chicago Underground Film Festival (2024)
Hacker Porn Film Festival (Rome, 2025)
Pan Eros Film Festival (Seattle, 2025)
“OH NO” 16mm Film Screening (No Nation, Chicago, 2024)
Artist Statement:
I utilize experimental concepts to explore dark psychological facets that coincide with romantic and sexual desires. Common themes that are discussed in my work are; romantic yearning, emotional torment, social isolation, and sexual frustration. I relay this through visually striking imagery that employs elements of melancholic homoeroticism and psychosexual surrealism. My work is deeply intimate, capturing the pained ecstasy of raw vulnerability. It is only through this vulnerability can we begin to examine the darkest corners of our individual psyches and collective desires.
You can contact me by emailing me at "chrisqnoon@gmail.com", or messaging me through my instagram, @meatsound.