Directing
For hope in the face of resistance. For the 20,000 communards executed at the Paris Commune on May 28, 1871. Filmed at Bread and Puppet theater in Glover, Vermont on a spring afternoon 150 years later.
A short documentary about community gardening in Ridgewood, Queens one year after the COVID-19 lockdown, and the legacy behind a former boundary marker between the two colonial counties of Newtown and Bushwick named Arbitration Rock.
This tortoise is very sleepy. He lives at Gatorland, near Orlando, Florida.
"It is undone business I speak of, this morning, with the sea stretching out from my feet." - Charles Olson, 'Maximus Poems'
observations of the wood people
The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.
Short film on the River of time.
Confluence is a 4-part impressionist representation of the Merrimack River, which runs from Franklin, NH at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesauke Rivers into the Atlantic Ocean in Newburyport, MA.
Amazon drivers in Palmdale, CA are on strike against Amazon's unfair labor practices, unsafe jobs, and low pay. NYC Teamsters show solidarity and ask for justice, now!
an observation on a theme from Ethan WL
A song of the crab apple tree
Landscapes are permeable, impermanent. They are hallucinations of literature, manifestations of human manipulation. Like the pixel, they are degraded, rearranged, forgotten. “Eclogues” is an expression of landscape in the purest principles of digital image-making: duration, practicality, limitation. Shot in 2020 in Strafford, Vermont.
A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric production and consumption alongside systems of visual and spoken language. The piece investigates recurring graphic symbols and how their cross-cultural appropriation functions within a global economy.
on the ground observations of the 2023 WGA strike in New York City
'Home Away From Home' is a short documentary about the efforts of educators in the Solu-Khumbu Valley (Sagarmatha/Everest Region of Nepal) to create longterm systems of education for Sherpa children. Generations of Sherpa people have not had formal education. Tsedam Sherpa and others are working to change that forever.
The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.
Two men materialized on the empty street...
What Else Can I Buy You With?
The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts explores accessibility, memory, and experimental filmmaking as a tool for accessing the inner self. In the Fall of 2019, while traveling across the United States, I taught camera-less film workshops in which I asked participants to express their “inner self” on a strip of 16mm film. These “visual autobiographies” are a synthesis of expression and memory in an abstract form. To capture my own inner, I documented the journey on super 8 film, and drew animations of the landscapes that drifted by me during my travels. My footage is stitched together with the collected consciousness of the many people that I met in these workshops; my memories in conversation with theirs. Each person’s contribution calls to mind one of my own memories, which relates back to the collective memory of the universe.
