As You Desire Me is a meditation on the city of Rome when the Iraq War was declared. Three city landscapes represent time in the haunting gap between the cold and barren landscape, and the people who traverse it. The three-channel film event uses surrealistic characters in real settings as a way to address sorrow and catastrophe. One of the components of the film is the poem, Empire of Dreams by Charles Simic.

Empire of Dreams By Charles Simic

On the first page of my dreambook It's always evening In an occupied country. Hour before the curfew. A small provincial city. The houses all dark. The storefronts gutted.

I am on a street corner Where I shouldn't be. Alone and coatless I have gone out to look For a black dog who answers to my whistle.

I have a kind of Halloween mask Which I am afraid to put on.