Film
Screenings
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2026 (Australia)
Crossroads/SF Cinematheque 2026
Seattle International Film Festival 2026
Cinequest Film and Creativity Festival 2026
Festival Fotogenia 2026 (Mexico)
In the Heavenly Cutting Room (2025), digital video, 2 minutes 59 seconds.
A woman on her deathbed summons her creator, chastising him and demanding a justification for her life’s trajectory, in this fusion of stop motion animation and dreamlike live action video.
View Teaser:
Vodník Many Years After the Rainstorm (2021), digital video, 5 minutes 58 seconds.
In San Francisco, many years after his hideous crimes, the fiendish water creature Vodník emerges from Czech folklore to recount his beguiling tale.
View Teaser:
30+ screenings and exhibitions, primarily as Official Selections
Screenings and Awards – Partial List
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2021 (Australia)
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2021
Shawna Shea Film Festival 2021 – Best Experimental Short
Film Maudit 2022
International Film Festival of Larissa 2022 (Greece)
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival 2022
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) 2022
Cadence Video Poetry Film Festival 2022
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2022 (UK)
CineYouth 2022, presented by Chicago International Film Festival
Warped Dimension 2023
REELpoetry/HoustonTX International Festival 2024
Lairs (2020), digital video, 1 minute 36 seconds.
Lairs, layers, liars: In this stop motion animated poetry film, hatred insidiously supplants a couple’s love.
View film:
50+ screenings and exhibitions, primarily as Official Selections
Screenings and Awards – Partial List
Zebra Poetry Film Festival 2020 (Germany)
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2020 (Australia)
Louisville’s International Festival of Film 2020 – Best Extreme New Media (XNM)
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) 2020
Film and Video Poetry Symposium 2020
Versi di Luce 2020 (Italy)
Palm Springs International Animation Festival 2020
Thomas Edison Black Maria Film Festival 2021 – Honorable Mention
International Video Poetry Festival 2021 (Greece)
Cadence Video Poetry Festival 2021 – Adaptation/Ekphrasis Award
Filmfest Bremen 2021 (Germany)
Demetera International Film Festival 2021 (France)
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2021 (UK)
Festival Ecrã 2021 – Videoarte (Brazil)
Sidewalk Film Festival 2021
Festival Fotogenia 2021 (Mexico)
ANIMAZE Montreal International Animation Film Festival 2021 (Canada)
CineYouth 2021, presented by Chicago International Film Festival
REELpoetry/HoustonTX 2022
Moviate Underground Film Festival 2022
I Am He Who Created Himself (2019), digital video, 3 minutes 35 seconds.
Joining with his shadow, the first god creates himself, the progenitor of humanity. This surrealistic film intermixes stop motion animation, time lapse photography, and live action sequences to re-imagine the Heliopolitan creation story, one of the paradigmatic creation myths recorded in antiquity.
View Film:
40+ screenings and exhibitions, primarily as Official Selections
Screenings and Awards – Partial List
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2019 (Australia)
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2019
Oaxaca FilmFest 2019 (Mexico)
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) 2019
St. Cloud Film Festival 2019
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2020 (UK)
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival 2020 – Special Jury Prize for Experimental Shorts
Beth’s three o’clock with Dr. Harlow (2018), digital video, 2 minutes 6 seconds.
Beth discloses a recent dream to her analyst. A vivid study of casual brutality and failed empathy, this surrealistic film intermixes stop motion animation with live action sequences.
View Film:
50+ screenings and exhibitions, primarily as Official Selections
Screenings and Awards – Partial List
Moviate Underground Film Festival 2018
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2018 (Australia)
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2018
CineYouth 2018, presented by Chicago International Film Festival
Festival de Cinema de Girona 2018 (Spain)
Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival 2018 (Spain)
Bolton Film Festival 2018 – Experimental Program at Neo Art Gallery (UK)
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) 2018 and invited Film of the Week via NFFTY website, September 11, 2019
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2019 (UK)
Aggregate Space Gallery, Holding Breath video art exhibition, 2019
Carmarthen Bay Film Festival 2019 (UK) – Best Experimental Film
Scholastic National Gold Medal in Film and Animation 2019
Manchester Film Festival 2019 (UK)
Delete TV 2019 (UK, Austria)
Cadaqués Shortfilm Festival 2019 (Spain)
Festival Ecrã 2019 (Brazil)
Lunatik Leipzig 2020 (Germany)
There’s More Than One Way to Skin a Man (2017), digital video, 7 minutes 9 seconds.
Up is down, and inside turns out: Who are these men that embody and fuel our collective existential upheaval? Are they heroes, anti-heroes, villains? Or something else altogether? This experimental work, created by intermixing original cinematography and archival film along with contemporary found footage, draws viewers into these questions.
View Film:
30+ screenings and exhibitions, primarily as Official Selections
Screenings and Awards – Partial List
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2017 (Australia)
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2017
Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema 2017 (France)
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) 2017 – Jury Award Best Emerging Female Filmmaker
San Francisco Frozen Film Festival 2017 – Best Experimental Film
CineYouth 2017, presented by Chicago International Film Festival
Bristol Radical Film Festival 2017 (UK)
NewFilmmakers New York Film Festival 2017
St. Cloud Film Fest 2017
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2018 (UK)
Leiden International Short Film Experience 2018 (Netherlands)
Sidewalk Film Festival 2018
Cold War Christmas (2015), digital video, 5 minutes 5 seconds.
In 1970’s America, an Eastern Bloc immigrant family lovingly celebrates a beautiful Christmas Eve...but is all calm and bright? Made using analogue and digital equipment with Super 8 film from 1971, this non-fiction experimental work is an immersive collage of image, sound, and silence that evokes the defector’s experience of displacement during the Cold War era.
View Film:
20+ screenings and exhibitions, primarily as Official Selections
Screenings and Awards – Partial List
Swedish Film Institute Short Film Day, Om exil (Regarding exile) program 2015, at art gallery Skånes
Konstförening (Sweden)
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2016 (Australia)
Open Art Short Film Festival 2016 (Germany)
Citizen Jane Film Festival 2016
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2016
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival 2016 – Jury Award Best Experimental Film
CineYouth 2016, presented by Chicago International Film Festival
The New Bohemia exhibition, Czech Center New York 2017 – Special Jury Mention
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival 2017
Weihnachtsfilmfestival 2021 (Germany)
Will I Scatter Away? (2015), digital video, 5 minutes 39 seconds.
Danger threatens a man seeking himself in a dream-like landscape. With live action sequences shot in San Francisco and its surrounding locales, this surrealistic thriller about a man’s encounter with menace and desperation also contains experimental stop motion animation using time-lapse photography, multimedia artwork, and cut-outs.
View Film:
30+ screenings and exhibitions, primarily as Official Selections
Screenings and Awards – Partial List
Seattle International Film Festival, FutureWave Shorts 2015
Moviate Underground Film Festival 2015
CineYouth 2015, presented by Chicago International Film – Festival Best Experimental Film, Junior Division
Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2015 (Australia)
Fear No Film Festival at Utah ArtsFest 2015
NewFilmmakers New York Film Festival 2015
Chicago International Film Festival 2015 – Invited Screening, Best of CineYouth
Louisville’s International Festival of Film 2015
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival 2016 (UK)
National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) 2016 – Jury Award Best Experimental Film
Mirror Mountain Film Festival 2016 (Canada)
Scholastic National Silver Medal in Film and Animation 2019
The Long Night (2014), digital video, 1 minute 52 seconds.
In a sequence of startling images, this experimental stop motion animation poetry film threads through the intervals and spaces of “The Long Night” using photography, paper cut-outs, painting, charcoal drawing, and other hand-crafted multimedia objects.
View Film:
20+ screenings and exhibitions, primarily as Official Selections
Screenings and Awards – Partial List
Aurora Picture Show’s Extremely Shorts Film Festival 2014
Sidewalk Film Festival 2014
Zebra Poetry Film Festival 2014 (Germany)
Bradford Animation Festival 2014 (UK)
NewFilmmakers New York Film Festival 2014
CineYouth 2014, presented by Chicago International Film Festival – Rising Star Award
Louisville’s International Festival of Film 2014
Intendence Film Festival 2014 – Juried Award Art-Experimental Film
Chicago International Film Festival 2014 – Invited Screening, Best of CineYouth
The Walt Disney Family Museum Bay Area Teen Animation Festival 2015 – Second Place Short
Animation Experimental
Mykonos Biennale 2015 (Greece)
Experimental Forum 2016
Video Art
Vodník Many Years After the Rainstorm (2020), three-channel digital video, 4 minutes 44 seconds.
Based on original poetry and Czech folklore, this three-channel stop motion animation and live action video art installation tells the story of Vodník’s alienation from human love. Created for the Jeffrey Ahn, Jr. Fellowship 2020, with an annual production grant awarded to one artist.
Wait Wait Wait (2017), single-channel digital video, 2 minutes 17 seconds.
Always we hear the robotic command to wait. Who will obey, and for how long? Shot in San Diego, this experimental film captures the real-time street sounds and images at the corner of 8th and E.
Screenings – Partial List
Aurora Picture Show’s Extremely Shorts Film Festival 2017
Louisville’s International Festival of Film 2017
San Diego Underground Film Festival 2017
Cinema on the Bayou Film Festival 2018
the last dream of sinister and dexter (2016), single-channel digital video, 8 minutes 16 seconds.
There was a catastrophe, and everyone else is gone. Soon, the Earth itself will disintegrate. What will the last eyes in the world--human, animal, alien, or mechanical--see in their final minutes? What would the last mind in the world dream? This experimental work of urban still life, filmed in San Francisco, imagines this vision, the last dream of oculus sinister and oculus dexter.
Screenings – Partial List
The Block Film and Art Festival 2016
London Experimental Film Festival 2016 (UK)
South Texas Underground Film Festival 2016
To view video art, please inquire through the Contact page.