Film
Excerpts of my film work - exploring the human spirit through experimentation, ambiance, scores, and time-based tone.
When It Rains, It Pours
An ode to the experience of waking up to raining paint, stars knocking at the door, and a world that is right-side-up but feels like it’s upside-down. Made with paper cutout portraits, paint, and thread combined with digital memories.
Arrival
A tale as old as birth and as young as death - this piece examines the human chase from a perspective of nature, suggesting that what you’re looking for might be what you’re looking with.
Upbringing
Multimedia, traditional animation orchestrating a voyage through libraries of memories and browsing the sensation of remembering. Made with physical drawings, paper cut-outs, and gouache paint.
Mismatch
16mm color film project exploring the feeling of being misunderstood. Color negative film underneath my poem and guitar - mismatch. Can we keep company? Can we lose the crowd? The romantics of eventual dwindle will get it. What I am saying will leave it thread-like, as such talents spread. Compassion, marine overlaps makes unproductive my gain. Those wordless amenities, chaotic and factoring you. plighting light itself unseen, but which makes all appear. The setting sun desires me, challenges anonymously. Isn’t that enough? I am already memorized by sky. Why so desperate for manmade recognition? I am shore. I am unsure, over-explaining, under-explaining the plain. To bed too late, up to early tangling too massive. Knives on paper, rulers measuring the ocean, swim in grass and pluck at ponds- aroused by decay. Can we keep company? Can we lose the crowd? And still be valuable, desired? This rushed note of us. On our own paths, in the same forest.
When You Realize
16mm in-camera double exposure short - shot with a matte box (cardboard shapes) rewound and shot again. All the images you see (except for the title scene) was shot in-camera with no post-editing. This film, paired with the voices of Joanna Macy and Anita Barrows, both activists, workers with grief, and translators of Rilke’s poetry, examines the four stages of awakening. Here, I collage what it may feel like to roll over and not be able to roll back, to come to terms with the truth, both tragic and beautiful.
It's Just Good Manners
Through 16mm double exposures, sonic layers, and hand-wrought animation, "It's Just Good Manners" turns the non-human world into a central protagonist to satirically examine humanity's absurd, ironic, and commodified relationship with nature. Alongside layers of voices, this student film urges us to consider our sources of beauty, and what it may mean to sustain them.
Unmanageable
Experimental 16mm film with infrared and ektachrome playing with angle and movement, narrated by my grandmother. This film expresses the question of management, when to intervene in nature's healing, and when to not.
No Duh
Paper-cut out animation paired with a philosophical, yet profoundly simple conversation with a friend while backpacking the Pacific Northwest Coast.