GOOD LUCK

2025 (Ongoing) | 1080p HD Video | Black and White | Stereo Audio | Virginia | 00:53:42

Continuing explorations of surveillance and gamification, GOOD LUCK is a new longitudinal experimental film trilogy utilizing motion-tracking, solar-powered, and remote-operated camera traps to trace the movements and behaviors of predators after dark in rural Virginia. The work addresses questions of performance, digital voyeurism, hunting, and predators doing their best to survive and adapt to changing landscapes and ever-growing human presence. This first iteration focuses on a family of Eastern coyotes, Canis latrans var., tracing the movement of these animals within isolated protected landscapes (often abutting neighborhoods) in Virginia’s New River Valley. Long viewed as a symbol of adaptability, cunning, and luck, coyotes are also considered a nuisance species, and are possibly the most misunderstood and persecuted of America’s native predators.