F I L M M A K I N G

NOMADIC MYTHOLOGIES: SITE DANCES

2023

“we are the dream the city is having about itself“ ~ “the city is the dream we are having of where we belong” this screendance film is a genre bending tale of a woman and the imagination of the city. As she maps each site with her body, the city is transformed from the foreign into the familiar, ultimately revealing what belonging somewhere truly means.

NOSTALGIA FOR PLACES I’VE NEVER BEEN

[work in progress]

Nostalgia For Places I’ve Never Been is an avant-garde mixed media animation about the concept of home. Imagery from a wide range of sources (video, found footage, handmade images, digital illustrations) coalesce, taking the viewer through an uncanny travelogue of memory and fantasy.

PHOSPHORESCENCE (2022)

[with String Orchestra of New York City]

Experimental Film to accompany premiere of new composition Phosphorescence by Matt Van Brink, performed as live score by the String Orchestra of New York City at College of Mount Saint Vincent, spring 2022.

Featuring dancer Lindsay Ryan

YOU SOHULD BE HERE

2020

Music video for the Bay Area [California] synth-pop, shoegaze indie band, BILLIE GALE.

From their album IMPRINT

Made in collaboration with singer, songwriter, front-runner, Beth Garber.

READING A WAVE

2017

Inspired by Italo Calvino's novella Mr. Palomar, this 3 channel video installation is about the impossibility of isolation: of a wave, of a moment, of oneself from the external world. It is reflective and investigative of the spaces between labor and meditation, divergence and convergence, the physical and the perceived.

AN UNQUIET MIND

2011

An Unquiet Mind: The Untold Story of Isabelle Cadieux is a fictional documentary film, part of a larger body of work comprising the artworks and artifacts of unknown French Outsider Artist Isabelle Cadieux  (b. 1966 – d. 1998, France) An intimate portrait of the artist, this experimental narrative prompts the audience to contemplate their own conceptions of history.

MEMORY MACHINE

2009

Memory Machine is is a mixed media experimental narrative film and and 3 channel video. We are a species that spends its lifetime documenting our individual existence. This need for external proof of our selves and our stories is reflected in our photographs, home movies, possessions (objects), achievements, our children. If we are to have lived, it is because we have a story.

ASSASSINATION JOURNAL

2008

Documentary Film following Radical Historian, George Michael Evica, founder of the first grassroots radio show on the east coast, Assassination Journal. As his obsession with the JFK assassination expands with the events of 9-11, this devoted scholar and patriot finds the answers to these unsolved mysteries when faced with his own mortality.

AUGUSTSTRAßE 18

2006

Mitte, Berlin

The act of looking is both instinctive and violent, it is exploitation as it is empathy. Looking affirms our common humanness, our struggles in the silence, our innocence in isolation.