Video Essays, Poems and Studies
Short-form video works in an essayistic and diaristic mode, moving through voice, image, memory, and place as ways of thinking about intimacy, crisis, relation, and the difficulty of locating oneself inside larger social conditions.
Essays
The Dream
The romance of the group.
Mars in Time
A reflection on personal despair and its connection to the position of whiteness amidst early pandemic stillness.
Poems
Upriver Return
Two boys find their direction moving up a wild river.
Near East Iron Humm
On the wet streets of Inner Southeast Portland the line between wandering and being chased blurs.
Videologs
Honor the Wander - May 2024
May 2024. A month’s everything-nothing moments: unfinished paintings, altered shirts, relational doubt, old Soviet papers in Tallinn, Estonia all reflected into a theme of germinal longing and dread of always approaching and never arriving. It's indeed Spring now.
Honor the Wander - April 2024
April 2024. Following an early Spring wander through linen self-fashioning, camping with my son, and waking by a castle after deciding to be a less worried about knowing where I am going.
Solstice Plunge 2024
Getting in cold water and talking about it.
Otherwise
Walking home from the beach after a sad day inside
A final wandering walk home after a long journey in which water, a cat, a train, and flowers invite me into the warm world waiting for me.
We forget, We understand
A rainy Spring day at the lake reminds of all that we can never know but already understand.
Film as trance
I am thinking a lot about film as trance, and how much of filmmaking can potentially be accurately described in these terms?