A diary piece reflecting on the time, community, love, and anxiety...oh and also Dominican food.

A humorous look into one of the largest adult sex boutique stores in the Midwest.

In the early 1900’s, Soviet filmmaker Lev Kuleshov made a short film showing an expressionless man intercut with three other shots: a bowl of soup, a child in a coffin and a woman laid out on a sofa. When an audience was shown the film, they believed the expression on the man’s face was different each time, looking hungry, grief-stricken and lustful. It was the exact same shot of the man every time. I created a film that uses the same simple trick to expose our own perceptions about race, class and gender in these tumultuous times.

"Young Ali: those were the days" offers a rare glimpse into first-generation Iranian American family life. The film is an intimate portrait of a middle-aged Persian man who, after losing his job and divorcing his wife during Covid, moves back home to confront his emotional afflictions and shed his past. There is an internal expectation that Ali's set for himself that he's failed to meet and that's where our story begins - with Ali confronting this and reinventing himself.

Laura La France and Lizzie Derksen have collaborated on several small projects together, most often surrounding one of Lizzie's poems and/or utilizing Laura's skill with Super 8 film. They are currently working on a CBC Gem documentary about women's friendship, directed by Lizzie.

Low Rent spans the year I spent secretly living in a hut I built on my allotment in Edinburgh back in 2005. It follows the full cycle of the seasons and captures moments such as early dawn from the hut doorway, a fox running with a scavenged egg in her mouth and trees bending with fruit. In its course I explore questions that continue to preoccupy me about land ownership in Scotland, class, poverty, colonialism and how the violence of capitalism and the joy of life meet in our bodies.

"Interdeviation" visualizes a world where humans, technology, and nature become inextricably merged. The video blends live action footage taken from the environments surrounding the artist’s home as well as images and footage of the artist herself. This footage was used as reference within generative AI to cultivate new and imagined landscapes as well as speculative human-plant hybrid organisms.

There is an identification with the greater forces of life and death in not just a suspension of the self or the self as a singularity of interpersonal forces meeting with the absolute. When I deconstruct my body, obscure my personage, and simultaneously sacrifice myself, I multiply into a fragmented composite. This process is not rooted in spiritualist escapism. Rather, "I" undergo a symbolic detachment or displacement from the realms of nature, allowing me to decontextualize myself and attain a renewed sense of being.

At that unexpected hour, between sleep and wakefulness, the participants arrive for their first rendezvous. The inaugural intervention is the enactment of the logic behind the artistic experimentation device. The body of the performer that carries the guideline is written. Locks of hair with their poetic mathema are cut. Converted into offerings, they are handed in a box to each artist, while an unintelligible phrase, but not any phrase, is whispered in their ears.

Offensive cybersecurity tools are transformed into audio-visual instruments. Port scans, vulnerability exploits, wifi packet sniffing, deauth attacks, ping scans, and more are used to generate network activity that is converted directly into raw digital sound and raw terminal text in real-time.

The second of five trailers for Robert Kloss’s novel, “The Genocide House” is a viewing portal that puts on display the grim history of what dishonest people call civilization. Voices of the damned speak passages from the book over a blend of cinematic stock and archival materials optically cohered into a dusty black & white stew. 

This trailer brings together the previous five sections into a single short film.

SeaMonster II is a single channel video with sound. All the objects used in this performance were collected at the sea shore near the artist's studio on the island of Aegina.

This work is part of the "SeaMonster" series. The first iteration "SeaMonster Monk" a live performance took place at the Athens Art Fair 2019 and was featured at the WhiteBox NYC in 2023.

The second of five trailers for Robert Kloss’s novel, “The Genocide House” is a viewing portal that puts on display the grim history of what dishonest people call civilization. Voices of the damned speak passages from the book over a blend of cinematic stock and archival materials optically cohered into a dusty black & white stew. 

Section IV of “The Genocide House” Trailer draws comparison between the men who oversaw the extermination of European Jews and Japanese civilians at the height of their authority.  

“Dissolve” is a short meditation on the transience of sensory awareness pointing to that which is unchanging, immaterial, outside of time. It reaches for an equivalence between immediate sensation and metaphor. Ultimately, this work aims to be experienced more fully through the body than the mind. Moving at a breath-like pulse, modulating its light and atmosphere, repeating, varying, and elaborating both its visual and aural themes; “Dissolve” arrives at a dynamic stillness.

The second of five trailers for Robert Kloss’s novel, “The Genocide House” is a viewing portal that puts on display the grim history of what dishonest people call civilization. Voices of the damned speak passages from the book over a blend of cinematic stock and archival materials optically cohered into a dusty black & white stew. 

Section III of “The Genocide House” Trailer takes on a more impartial tone, shedding light on what life was like during the era of the 1918 Influenza pandemic at the tail end of WWI. 

My research stems from the need to investigate an immutable human peculiarity: miscommunication. By definition, it is an existential condition that makes it impossible to communicate oneself objectively to others. This state consequently results in a form of isolation and loneliness - a continuous attempt to be understood by clinging to the most humanly possible, followed inevitably by failure. Despite being the only living beings existing on Planet Earth to have the privilege of speech, humans are also the only living beings who fall victim to inexpression, incomprehension, and the impossibility of communication; at least, through verbal language.

The second of five trailers for Robert Kloss’s novel, “The Genocide House” is a viewing portal that puts on display the grim history of what dishonest people call civilization. Voices of the damned speak passages from the book over a blend of cinematic stock and archival materials optically cohered into a dusty black & white stew. 

Section II of “The Genocide House” Trailer explores the callous thoughts of a sexually malicious killer who lived in the latter half of the 19th century. 

“I want a symbolic death, that leads me in a last poetic, almost desperate act: to die with a seed stuck in my throat.” -- From the poem "Edge."

Echoes of Pandemic combines the power of video and poetry to explore the impact of the pandemic on the vibrant city of Miami. Capturing the beauty of poetry in difficult times, and painting a vivid and emotional portrait of a town in the throes of a global health crisis. “Echoes of Pandemic” is a video about the universal human spirit and the transformative power of poetry.