HOW YOU RETURN
Awarded Jury Award at Cinepoint Film Festival | 2019
Our headspace is our home; a compartmentalized space in which we harbor and repress memories in attempt to protect ourselves and sanctify our sanity. We invite people into our mental space just as we seal our doors to block them out. Sometimes, despite our diligent efforts to do so, we cannot control what (or who) enters our head. We falter into a cyclical trap of remembering the very memory we wish to forget. ​The way in which you return, it's as if you never left.
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TRUE LOVE WILL FIND YOU, BABE
2020
Pandora’s box of online dating has exploded … and now astronaut cowboys and seductively monstrous femme fatals have no other choice than to search for love in its twisted pandemonium. To swipe or not to swipe? This video encapsulates the enticing, aggravating, wacky, and humorous nature of "dating"
in a deceiving digital world.
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BIRD FLU
2020
Praised for their crooning, scoffed at for their bird brains. Gawked at for their feathery flair, mocked for being robotic government spies. Smelly, pestering, invasive, disease-bearing worm-eaters! Hatched from spoiled eggs and pushed out of their nests prematurely. What's the word, baby bird?
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YOU & I
Screened at CinePoint Film Festival | 2017
As humans, we are constantly reinventing ourselves. The interactions we have with others influence us in both obvious and subliminal ways. On a daily basis, we wake up a different person from the day prior, even if the change is extremely minor and unintentional. Our lives, even if shared in simplified vignettes, impact each other. You are a piece of me, just as I am a piece of you.
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FOR NOW
Screened at CinePoint Film Festival | 2018
Friday night -- for us, for now, but not forever. This film documents a Friday night shared with friends -- some old, some I had just met for the very first time. It's a genuine account of a single night, but also a reflection on how I had felt about my college years coming to an end. Whether getting ready for a Friday night spent in good company or getting ready for the rest of our lives post-graduation, these moments are fleeting. The youth we manifest is only temporary. We have a responsibility to savor these moments so that we may enjoy them in memory.
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OF THE ENDLESS WORLDS, I WONDER WHICH ONE I AM LIVING IN
2018
A summer away. The footage and audio woven into this project were gathered during the summer I lived in Washington D.C., a place initially foreign and uncomfortable to me. I moved states away into the spare bedroom of an Arlington condo belonging to a couple I had never met before. This documentary serves as a visual and auditory diary recapping the mental, emotional and physical space I resided in for three months.
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ASSEMBLE WITH CARE, HANDLE WITH CAUTION
Awarded Jury Award at CinePoint Film Festival | 2017
I am the night and the night is alive; streams of neon swallow the sleeping. Where does my mind drift when no eyes are watching? Who does my mind belong to when I have no control?
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