Untitled (Ladera Heights), is a silent, short film composed of a single static black and white shot of an oil dyke operating in the Ladera Heights section of Los Angeles, interrupted by a jump cut to a second static shot, in color, of palm trees blowing in the sunset breeze. Through the privileging of the image of this one pumping unit alongside the stereotypical image of palms at sunset, Untitled (Ladera Heights) locates the dark subterraneus,buried within the physical geography of Los Angeles, that so often informs the cultural, socio-economic, and historical landscape of this sun-drenched, smog-cloaked city, and re-locates the Los Angeles dream factory from the hills of Hollywood to the hills of South L.A.. The film is zoot, noir, porn, horror, 70’s indie, cocaine-country, Sunset Strip metal, hardcore punk, and gangsta rap, boiled down to the simple fact that Los Angeles is a place that floats on an underground that is pure coal tar.