Below the Surface

Breaking An Image Breaking An Image is a dusty, scratched record. The needle skips a groove, and the image of Tiffany, 80’s teen popstar, jumps thirty years into the future. The image lands in the Southdale Center, the first indoor shopping center in the US.

Chicken & Roses When two people meet on an awkward first date, they struggle to be themselves.

Goodbye, Vietnam An animated documentary about the story of a Vietnamese refugee narrated by his daughter.

CORONA TIME Life during Covid19 can get a bit... repetitive.

Internal Conflict Triggered by recent events, Jacob is forced to wrestle the darkness within himself. Inspired by personal experiences, this film is dedicated to those who are constantly fighting to overcome their mental health battles.

To My Sister I wrote and directed this small documentary when my younger sister Michaela returned home from college unwell. She spent a week at home before my small family drove her back to the school she wished to continue to attend. It's vagueness speaks to my family's desire to keep elements of their lives private and the comfort they find within the dynamic. I am an English and Film Studies undergraduate student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and this was my final project of the Spring 2020 semester.

Back to Back Filmed during lockdown, Back to Back is a performance film about care centred around a phone conversation between a cleaning agency employee and a woman trying to empty a locked fridge. When the two women meet-up they engage in a strange dance through the streets of Seoul, locked together back-to-back in a movement of mutual support and dependence.

From Here and Back; Resi... “I have very little memory of my parents’ relationship; only pictures and the interactions between my dad and the things of my mom’s he’s kept. The image of them composed of storytelling, mannerisms, and attachment. The memory of them is a tape loop; very dense and repetitively patterned, yet each time it comes around I feel renewed.”

El loro de la soledad A group of English technicians who settled in Santiago del Estero to build a bridge for the railroad got in touch with local women.

Delle The full-length documentary is a story about painter Biruta Delle, who is of the so-called “Uncensored” generation in Latvian art. It is a story of loneliness and nonconformism, and great talent that dramatically eats up everything else in a her life... but Biruta Delle continues to paint, becoming increasingly isolated from society.