MY FILMS
Award-winning Short Film Trailer:
Taking Back August (2023)
A film star clinging to her dying career is suddenly confronted by her biggest fear… her son. As August auditions for the role of Hamlet, life begins to imitate art when her estranged son Grayson arrives unannounced at her coastal estate. Forced to confront past guilt and present fears concerning her role as a mother, August stands on the precipice of what it means “to be or not to be” as a woman who wants it all.
Short Film:
Exodus (2021)
Exodus (2021) is a short film I conceptualized, directed, and shot in the form of solely still images taken in the North End of Boston, Massachusetts, and edited together to tell the story of the violent and exclusionary history of institutionalized religion.
Video Essay:
Caligari and I: An Essay on Psychoanalysis (2023)
Here is a video essay I made for a Boston University history course about Weimar Germany. This piece explores themes of psychoanalytic theory, treatment of World War I veterans, and a meta look at the illusions of cinema as handled by director Robert Wiene in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. I take a reflexive approach at times, revealing myself as the filmmaker behind another illusive piece: this movie itself.
Art Installation Short:
AIDS Quilt Panel (2023)
This is my final project for Boston University's History 221 Catastrophe and Memory Course. Based on the late poet Paul Monette's poem "Brother of the Mount of Olives," this film showcases my AIDS quilt panel in his memory along with a reading of an excerpt from the poem.
Soundscape:
Gun Show (2020)
This piece incorporates layered and mixed audio tracks to create an immerse soundscape to enrich the viewing expereince of the 20th century painting The Hippodrome (1901-2) created by Everett Shinn. From a circus to a war zone, this audio journey explores the transition from the opulence of the Industrial Revolution in Europe, where more and more families had enough disposable income to spend a Sunday say at the circus, into the cataclysmic horror of the world wars in the 20th, the era in which Shinn was creating this very piece. The clash of tones reveals a sense of violence which can be decoded from the original painting and the international conflict to come.