2022
Documentary Feature
The Mirrored Road is a feature length film that explores the relationship between trauma and memory, and questions the function of home movies as a vehicle for truth. What began as a project about the life of my great grandmother Bessie, an engineer on the Manhattan Project, evolves into an exploration of my own trauma, which unfolds slowly throughout the film and is prompted by stories of traumatic events surrounding Bessie's early life and those in her orbit.
trailer
(Excerpt)
2019
Short, 8:09
Inspired by the Celtic myth in which a water spirit exchanges her magical powers for a human soul, Ondine is trapped in a dystopian purgatory. A more evolved woman from a future time crosses channels with her, becomes entranced by Ondine, and attempts to return her to her watery realm.
A woman warrior emerges alone from a rocky cliff. Compelled by unsettling visions of fire, she explores her surroundings. Moving from meadow to forest her garments and jewels change color. She encounters a seated knight, who coaxes her to sleep. She finds herself trapped in her dream, however, urgently seeking means of escape. She remembers her sword. Liberated by its power she is reborn. Draped in veils she steps from a lush, garden bath only to wrestle a new shadow force, but as she confronts it her bedazzled veil shields her and the spell lifts
2020
Short, 3:03
This meditative composition of sun-kissed moments from Southern CA in the 1960’s projects a safe, calm social order. Golden-haired girls in pressed polka-dot summer dresses run, scuba dive, ride horses and scooters — all in kaleidoscopic slow motion. They play, as they should, under the serene supervision of a glamorous woman wearing white-rimmed sunglasses.
2018
short, 1:08
A young woman walks alone through a dappled eucalyptus grove. An ominous unseen, supersonic force from above disrupts her world. In a rising panic, she begins to run through the trees as the atmosphere around her turns red, yellow and orange.
2019
Multi-channel web installation
archival footage
Multiple, bright images of voluptuous highly styled women are stacked to make a cruciform. The beautiful women pulse and nod as if in thrall to the chorus of high children’s voices sweetly singing a hymn. They are caught in a cycle of seduction and worship.
2019
Short, 1:54
A Parade is a hypnotic journey through a sunny day in New England, and a meditation on the women and girls of the early Fifties.
(House Remix)
shot 2008
completed 2019
Short, 2:42
Fierce yet vulnerable young beauties are shot in a visual arc of urban settings from dark, fenced in underground chambers to day-lit rooftops. Echoing Persephone’s lost innocence the pure voice of neglected child star Lena Zavaroni sings of a lover’s rejection.
