films & videos

Selected Films & Videos

Black and white close-up image of my mother with her head tilted slightly, her hand resting on her cheek

Missing person

work-in-progress

Revisiting footage I filmed over 30 years ago when I interviewed my mother about her brother who went missing during the Korean War, a second attempt at a film I never made.

Missing Person is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Point John

2026, 16mm transferred to digital, 3:35
Co-directed with Bill Santen

Music video for Point John by Birddog and Wake Up. Here’s a write-up about the release in Magnet Magazine.

 

snow (buffalo/berlin)

2014, single-channel, audio, 3:00

Snow falling in Buffalo and seed pods snowing in Berlin are connected by a breath.

 

corridor (myoptic projection)

2019, looping animation, 6:15

Animation produced as part of my myoptic show; stand-alone video or to be projected on wall opposite Telescope House.

 

oology

2013, co-directed with Dorothea Braemer, three-channel, audio, 4:15

Three-screen video that asks which came first: the chicken or the egg? Or was it the fried egg?

 

10 Views

2013, single-channel, 9:00

A fractured view of a new medical building and its surrounding neighborhood commissioned for a Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center group show, Vascular Modes.

 

Fire Escape

2005, video, 4:30

An impressionistic study of the fire escape outside my window, the vinyl siding and the light passing through. Made for group show, Sound Needs Image.

 

Good Soil

co-directed with Dorothea Braemer, 16mm film transferred to video

Good Soil looks at one family’s effort to start a farm in the heart of a post-industrial Rust Belt city.