Jefferson Everest Crawford

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.

Two men materialized on the empty street...

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.

An elegy in found footage for saw. Music performed by "Lutra."

Flattened image of a classic film

Soft light, new running surfaces of life, splintering merrily. Poetic observations.

A detour featuring the Central Vermont railroad, West Hartford, rt. 89, "disastrous train wreck," and VA cutoff bridges along the White River as it runs from Sharon, Vermont to White River Junction, where it meets the Connecticut River.

Toledo Meat Packing Explosion

Filming Confluence (2019)

A view of the common looking north

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.

Rose Hobart haunts the cinema.

The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.

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A place is an obelisk, reaching to the sky; down again to a point in the ground. Not a solid point, but a hesitant, mysterious one (some say always shifting). Ripples of life arch out from its base in unexpected ways. The obelisk series is an informal collecting of time and place haphazardly documented by two perambulating filmmakers.

for Dorville Finkle (1927-2020) and his memory

"It is undone business I speak of, this morning, with the sea stretching out from my feet." - Charles Olson, 'Maximus Poems'

After a piece by Al Razutis

for Barbara Crawford (1928-2024)

Short film on the River of time.