Directing
Short film about a young girl and her unanswered desire for a boy in her class.
Inspired by a Buddhist ritual for grieving abortions, a Japanese-American woman reevaluates what it means to end her own pregnancy.
An artist moves to a mysterious island to focus on her work. Quickly, she becomes obsessed with one of her projects.
For her entire professional life, renowned ecologist Nalini Nadkarni pioneered climbing techniques to study "what grows back” after an ecological disturbance in the rainforest canopy. Now, after surviving a life-threatening fall from a tree, she must turn her research question onto herself in order to understand the effects of disturbance and recovery throughout her life.
A girls lives life through a camera lens
A video poem that celebrates the resilience of womxn in a culture full of body politics, through a young woman's retelling of her abortion. The film travels in real time through the raw and heartfelt reactions from her circle of friends.
Taking place over the course of a single day and night, five vignettes tell the story of five New Yorkers who find that their personal relationships to light mirror much larger systems of power playing out across the city.
During a period of isolation, the filmmaker returned to recordings of stories told by her grandmother, who shares episodes from her youth without sentimentality. Using home movies from her grandmother's life and her own as the base for handmade animation loops, she repetitively and obsessively listened and drew, while lingering in the feeling of what it means to be stuck.
A collective introspection among the filmmaker’s high school friend group that explores the manifestation of unspoken memories, following the rhythms of the seventeen year cicada emergence in Virginia.
