North (2027) [Upcoming/Unreleased]

16mm, B&W, 3 min, Sound




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I found a decaying print of Nanook of the North buried in the archive at Northwest Film Forum. Vinegar-soaked. Warped. Unstable. I let it keep rotting. Then I pushed it further: through photochemical abrasion, through touch, through light.

This film, north, is not about restoration. It is about confrontation. I turned the lens back on the original, flipping the ethnographer’s gaze onto itself. These frames have been fumbled through too many hands, canonized in textbooks, uncritically screened in classrooms. Flaherty’s legacy is one of observation masquerading as truth, of distance framed as authority, of violence rendered as romance.

I approach the material not to represent it, but to hold it. To sit with its damage. To mark it with heat, with light, with gesture. I am not re-presenting the image. I am pressing against its surface, smearing its claim to objectivity. I see myself not as a filmmaker, but as an image handler.

What do we do with the myths we inherit?
We unmake them.
We hold them until they blur.
We watch them burn.

Objectionable Fruit (2026) [Upcoming/Unreleased]

16mm, 4 Channels, Color and B&W, 15 min, Sound




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Objectionable Fruit is an experimental documentary examining the Ginkgo tree—a living fossil celebrated for its resilience and unique capacity to change sexes, defying human-imposed binaries. Using the Ginkgo as a metaphor for fluidity and endurance, the film weaves together themes of gender identity, ecological interconnectedness, and the nuanced complexities of queer existence.


Collaboration with Gabby Follett and Amber Vistein.

i walked away with the garden's weeds (2025) [Upcoming/Unreleased]

16mm, B&W, 6 min, Sound




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Using garden weeds both as a subject and a material, I am creating a 16mm film that investigates the value we assign to plants in the context of gardening. The process involves crafting a black-and-white developer from weeds like goldenrod, Queen Anne's lace, and bull thistle, while also imprinting their forms directly onto film using direct animation. Through a queer lens, I explore the weed as a metaphor for transness and queerness—digging, spreading, and flourishing into untamed beauty while simultaneously facing efforts of control and eradication. This film weaves together experimental processes and metaphorical reflections, embracing the untamed and undervalued.


Sounds and composition by Annie Dodson.

in the streets of june (2025)

Super 8, color, 4 min, Sound



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Layered in the grain of Super 8, in the streets of june captures the vivid contradictions of a Seattle Pride parade: a kaleidoscope of joy and resistance, fractured and reframed through layers of multiple exposure. The film's textured imagery merges the vibrant defiance of the parade with the imposing presence of police lines, their shadows cast across the glitter-strewn streets.

Scenes of dancers and banners dissolve into one another, overlapping with sharp flashes of riot gear, creating a haunting interplay between celebration and surveillance. The camera lingers on fleeting moments while the weight of unseen power hovers, ever present.

Clear (2024)

16mm, color, 6 min, Sound



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Clear is a visceral confrontation with the illusion of "safety," where altered 16mm footage and layered audio reveal the quiet violence surveillance imposes on trans and gender-nonconforming bodies.