Mark Taylor has been making short films since 1985. Here is a sampling of the most recent. home | films | web sites | kill time Sensing the World by Echo 2006. Video. 17:31. Sensing the World by Echo is a "Frankenstein's monster" of a movie stitched together with parts robbed from the B-movie graveyard of horror and sci-fi films. A colorful, animated paper collage, the film is assembled from scraps of 1950s and '60s children's books, home and how-to manuals, science texts and encyclopedias. Sensing the World by Echo tells an unconventional narrative about growing up feeling like an alien from outer space and of finding one's place in a mad, mad world. Lesson 9 1999. 16mm. 16 min. The journal entries of a lover who has gone mad tell the tale of a man invaded by an evil spirit that came out of the wall and took over his body. What made him take apart every electrical device in the house looking for answers in the circuitry? What made him feel that he was close to discovering the key to how everything in the universe is connected? Was it brain chemistry that went haywire? Was it too many semiotics texts? Or do evil spirits really inhabit the edge of our reality, waiting for the opportunity to cross over? Don't get too close to those who have lost their grip. Sometimes, insanity is contagious. My Daddy and Animal Daddies 1994. Video. 13 min. A candy-colored nightmare about cycles of violence inside one small family, to the sounds of Sonny and Cher. He Would Have Loved Me to Death 1992. 16mm. 9 min. This film is about disintegration. It was inspired by a magazine article that reported a high incidence of abuse in the families of military personnel. As so many of our society's resources are directed toward the military, I wondered whether the disintegration of the family couldn't be traced back to the training of so many men for violence and destruction. I wanted the film to be about how this destruction feels, with the images themselves melting and exploding into one another, always on the verge of coming apart.