Catalogue is a silent 9-minute 16mm film that consider the time it takes to look at desirable objects for sale in a mainstream catalogue of designer furniture knock-offs. The catalogue presents de-saturated photographs of staged rooms shot and printed to resemble sets for film-noir era movies. This mediation hypothetically increases the objects' desirability by picturing them in a nostalgic historical moment that is, in fact, fictional. In these pictures, copies of designer furniture are indistinguishable from original pieces. In an effort to insert subjectivity, feeling, into the structure of duration, the film became a documentary of the filmmaker’s looking; each cut was determined by the rise and decay of desire for the object or for the image itself.

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Desire is learned. Desire is cultivated. It’s a habit formed through continuous repetition of a particular class of interactions. Desire is the most important of all industrial products. — Gene Youngblood