WORK

FILM

1. A Squirrel Turning in Its Cage

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2025, 38:06
Undergraduate thesis // Semifinalist in the Student Academy Awards, 2025.

“A Squirrel Turning in its Cage” is an essay film that combines Simone Weil’s early thought with industrial films, image processing, and collecting. Moving between text, textile, montage, absurdist musical, and experimental documentary, the film draws across disciplines to examine questions of labor, art, humor, and the eternal theory/practice divide. LEARN MORE.

2. An Inquiry into Crystallization

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2024, 02:26

This video piece was inspired by the history of microscopy and the films of JC Mol and Jean Painlevé. It incorporates my own microcinematography imaged at the RISD Nature Lab with found footage from early art animation and Busby Berkeley musicals. It seeks to examine the spectacle of scale and the connections between the human and the non-human.

3. A Short Video About Cadence

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2024, 04:19

I began this project by collecting voice recordings— voicemails from my grandfather, conversations with friends, radio hosts. I then brought these recordings into an audio processing program where I used them to create a set of MIDI tracks to which I could assign percussion instruments. I then assigned to each voice sample a corresponding piece of archival footage based on the topic they are discussing in the sample. To play with this relationship between form (cadence) and content, I toggle both the sonic and the visual in and out of legibility—images become abstracted geometries as speech becomes rhythm. Part of the idea of the piece is the impossibility of full comprehension in terms of content—words slip in and out of being identifiable, always just beyond reach. Instead, one becomes newly attuned to where these slippages occur in larger rhythmic patterns.

4. This Was Really Great (dir. Lydia Riess)

2024

Cinematographer for a feature-length narrative film by Lydia Riess.

5. Unfolding

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2023, 00:35, loop

This work features origami tessellations which conceal/reveal text when folded/unfolded. In their folding/unfolding each paper becomes a conver- sation between parts of myself which constantly undermine each other. The anxiety-ridden process is manifest in the complex, labor-intensive forms of the tessellations, which become an object of obsession on which the conversation comments. I began by writing the text on an unfolded sheet of paper which I then molded into each of the three tessellations. After folding, I wrote in the red text, which, of course, becomes illegible when the sheet is flat. I then filmed the unfolding and refolding, looped it so as to mimic the hypnotic, inescapable experience of folding, and added back in the sounds of the paper creasing.

6. See!

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2022, 03:01

Found footage poem-film using titles from the collection of the Prelinger Archives

7. A Study in Knitting

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2022, 02:11

One of two 16mm silent exploratory films.

8. A Study in Trash

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2022, 02:36

One of two 16mm silent exploratory films.

9. Inside Voices

2021, 04:16

Live Action/Handdrawn Animation. Winner of Scholastic Gold Key (exhibited at the Met). Official Selection of the All American High School Film Festival.

GRAPHICS