Video Essays, Poems and Studies
Short-form video works in an essayistic and diaristic mode, moving between documentary, personal address, and experimental video poem.
Voice, image, memory, and place become ways of thinking through intimacy, crisis, relation, and the difficulty of locating oneself inside larger social conditions.
- The Dream2024
This is the romance of the group.
- Mars in Time2020
Made in 2020, this video essay moves through pandemic stillness, personal despair, whiteness, collapse, and the impossible wish to outrun the world we have made.
- Upriver Return2019
Two boys find their direction moving up a wild river.
- Near East Iron Humm2018
On the wet streets of Inner Southeast Portland the line between wandering and being chased blurs.
- Film as trance2025
I am thinking a lot about film as trance, and how much of filmmaking can potentially be accurately described in these terms?
- We forget, We understand2025
A rainy Spring day at the lake reminds of all that we can never know but already understand.
- Solstice Plunge 20242024
Getting in cold water and talking about it.
- Honor the Wander - April 20242024
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.
- Honor the Wander - May 20242024
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.
- Walking home from the beach after a sad day inside2026
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.