EYESHOT
35mm slides & 8mm film transferred to DVD, single channel digital video, color, sound, 20 minutes, 2006
By looking at a Vietnam veteran's films, photographs, and objects and through recording conversations, EYESHOT is a non-polemical visual essay that investigates the nature of fighting in combat though the use of lens generated materials.
Later Fer Nou / Earth Shapes Us
HD Video, TRT 35 minutes, 2024
Later Fer Nou/Earth Shapes Us is an immersive visual essay centered on a once historically little known process of building the Mauritian frame drum called the Ravann. Focusing on the materials, tools and techniques, this film is intended to valorize this object of cultural significance, the artisanal methods of its making and the ecology that holds the wisdom to support its production. This film speaks to innate capabilities of human creativity to find methods that allow people to persevere and thrive. This work was made in collaboration with the local Mauritian development organization, ABAIM.
Passcode: Ravann
September-December 1966
35mm Slides, HD Video, 7 minutes, 2008-2015
Using structural filmmaking processes, this work takes the dates of September through December of 1966 as its subject matter. This film includes all of the photographs that my veteran uncle produced while in the army as a crew chief/door gunner and all of the written materials that my grandmother compiled as the president of the Newtown CT Ladies Auxiliary, preparing packages for the men stationed in Vietnam from her town. The text was read my mother for the making of the piece.