i'm a writer, director, and media artist. my creative interests are represented through experimental filmmaking and personal filmmaking. my research interests surround experimental cinema, media ecology, and expanded media environments. through my art practice and research practice, i delve into the avant-garde's power to nurture a fruitful and dynamic curiosity about the complex world around us.
throughout my films, i often utilize hybridity — mixing media, along with fictional and nonfictional narrative devices. doing so pushes the boundary between audience and screen and challenges the techniques of realism. my methods put a microscope to human behavior and provide perspectives for how to see the world, while allowing the audience to intimately engage with those perspectives.
in addition to hybrid filmmaking, i also engage more directly with experimental filmmaking techniques. as of late, i've been utilizing superimposition to craft dreamy and poetic images. these images morph together to express autobiographical experiences — hyper-fixating on memory. i also often use the blend between ‘nature’ and culture in my work. in today’s world, it's difficult to separate ‘nature’ from culture, and the ways in which mass media, as cultural phenomena, have informed ‘nature,’ particularly with nostalgic images of the west. i explore and play with those ideas in my experimental filmmaking.
my films have been publicly screened at venues such as the millennium film workshop, the galactic panther art gallery, rhizome dc, the richard and carole cocks art museum, the morris gwendolyn cafritz foundation arts center, the university film and video conference, community art spaces such as artspace 304, and others.
i hold an mfa in media arts from southern illinois university. i'm currently a visiting assistant professor of film at miami university ohio. for more information on my professional experiences, click on the above 'cv' image.
additionally, i'm working on various experimental film projects. also, i've released an experimental cinema zine, which you can purchase here. and i've written a chapter about hybrid cinema for the book, father of the american mind: the influence and continuing relevance of emerson's philosophy on culture. the book can be purchased here.