FROG HOLLOW
A humanoid robot lives alone on an abandoned pastoral island, tending animals and repeating the routines of people who are no longer there. After a software update, she begins to dream and finds herself imagining life as a tree frog.
A film about what it means to belong to a world, and the limits of any single perspective on it.
Presented across three simultaneous screens the installation makes it impossible to watch everything at once.
Created in collaboration with Grace, an embodied AI developed by SingularityNET and Hanson Robotics, whose outputs directly shaped the film's scenes and structure. Authorship is shared and continually renegotiated.
Supported by:
Creative Capital
Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund
ETERNITY ONE
A disappearing island community in the Chesapeake Bay and a group of futurists pursuing technological escape from death filmed over multiple years as rising sea levels erode both land and tradition. A deep-time meteor, rendered in a game engine, narrates from outside human time.
A film about what it means to imagine a future while standing inside loss.
Observational documentary and game-engine animation run simultaneously, collapsing geological and human time into a single frame.
Filmed over multiple years on Tangier Island, Virginia, in close collaboration with the community living there. Their daily lives, labor, belief, water, are the film's primary material.
Supported by:
Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund
Rubys Artist Grants
The Deutsch Foundation
Rooftop Film Fund
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art
Macdowell
Vermont Studio Center
CRESTONE
In a world that undulates between fact and fiction, digital and physical, a group of SoundCloud rappers lives a solitary, post-societal existence in the desert town of Crestone, Colorado. Once a religious and spiritual mecca for many, Crestone’s endless sand dunes, waterfalls, and dark caves act as a backdrop for images of tattooed bodies, cosplay wardrobes, and clouds of weed smoke. "Crestone" explores the often hidden aspects of collaboration and friendship as well as the human desire to persist against all odds.
What does music sound like if there is no one left to repost and share it?
Screenings/Festivals:
TRUE/FALSE Film Festival
SXSW Film Festival
THE 4:3 ONLINE FILM FESTIVAL
Maryland Film Festival
Milwaukee Film Festival
Beat Film Festival
Champs Elysées Film Festival
Denver Film Festival
American Film Festival in Poland
Sound Unseen 21
Unerhört Music Film Festival
The DocYard Online
Bellweather Series
Rockaways Film Festival
BAM NYC
Le Cinema Club
Festival In-Edit Amsterdam
Tallahassee Film Festival
Press:
Filmmaker Magazine
Bmore Art
VOX
Moveable Fest
Bright Wall Dark Room
CRESTONE MINECRAFT SERVER
A Minecraft server replicating the setting of the film. The film's subjects, who built their identities through platforms, feeds, and digital performance, already inhabited a world that existed as much online as it did in the desert. To enter the world of the film, you navigate it the way they do: through a screen, as an avatar, moving through a space that is simultaneously a place and a representation of one.
The viewer becomes a body inside the landscape, making choices about where to go, what to enter, who to approach. The passivity of watching is replaced by the agency of movement, and with it, a different kind of seeimg.
Minecraft is a world built from blocks, from accumulation, from labor that leaves a visible mark. So is SoundCloud. So is a life assembled from posts and uploads and late-night recordings in a desert town most people have never heard of.
Welcome to Crestone. You are on your own.
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DIRT DAUGHTER
A security guard tasked with protecting a transatlantic fiber optic cable beneath a former Baltimore department store — now a private data center — develops a relationship with an algorithm promising love.
A film about the internet as physical object: the buildings, the cables, the bodies that maintain them in the dark. And about what it means to seek connection inside the infrastructure of connection itself.
Many of us believe the internet isn't a physical thing, rather an infinite, invisible resource.
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Screenings and Collections:
The Criterion Channel
The Eyeslicer: Season Two
Rooftop Films
Borscht Corp.
NoBudge
HI I NEED TO BE LOVED
A director ushers Craigslist actors one by one into an audition room and asks them to read from a collection of her spam emails. The equipment is all visible — lights, teleprompter, boom operator — and the locations keep shifting: a cow pasture, a sunset, a strip club.
A film about what happens when malware becomes script. Algorithmic contamination and human desire turn out to speak the same language.
Is this poetry or malware?
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WEBSITE
Screenings/Festivals:
Locarno Film Festival
Vancouver International Film Festival
El Gouna Film Festival
FICVALDIVIA Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
Denver Film Festival
London Short Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Florida Film Festival
Images Festival
Maryland Film Festival
Buenos Aires Film Festival
Lago FIlm Fest
Baltimore Museum of Art
GROWING GIRL
A film made entirely inside Microsoft PowerPoint — stock photo characters animated through a presentation software never meant for cinema, performing a story about labor, trauma, and female empowerment.
A film about reclaiming the tools you were handed. What you were given to make spreadsheets, you can also use to tell the truth.
Accompanied by a live performance that mirrors the digital space of the animation itself — the screen and the body occupying the same story at once.
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Screenings /Programs:
MoMA NYC Future of Film Is Female Program
Oak Cliff Film Festival
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Florida Film Festival
Indie Grits
Borscht Film Festival
Maryland Film Festival
New Orleans Film Festival
Cucalorus Film Festival
Art Scape Baltimore