News

  • “Pareidolic Cinemas,” with Lana Lin

    I co-authored an essay with Lana Lin for Portable Gray’s Spring 2024 issue on “Paraäcademia.” We constructed a crossword puzzle as an eccentric device for considering pareidolia — the tendency to discern images in randomness — as a decolonial survival strategy in the films of three women/non-binary artists.

  • Midwood Movie

    Official selection of Prismatic Ground. May 11 at Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY. About the film →

  • “The Feral Film Habit of OJOBOCA”

    Journal of Environmental Media, special issue ‘Cinezoonosis,’ 4.2 (2023): 187–212.

  • MacDowell Fellowship

    Artist residency, July–August 2023. Peterborough, NH.

  • “Gestational Filmmaking with ART: An Odd Pair”

    Portable Gray 5.2 (Fall 2022): 278–291. Published for the Gray Center for Arts and Inquiry.

  • An Odd Pair

    Premiered March 26 at the 60th Ann Arbor Film Festival. About the film →

  • “Propositions for Feral Filmmaking in the Work of Ojoboca”

  • “Home Works: Making Art at the End of the World”

  • NYSCA Individual Artist Award

    New York State Council on the Arts award for Midwood Movie (category: Film, Media & New Technology; fiscal sponsor: UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art).

  • Flaherty Preservation Initiative

    In conjunction with NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) preservation fund, Garden Roll Bounce Parking Lot (2010) was selected for archival preservation.

  • Lightpress Grant

    Interbay Cinema Society. Grant awarded to digitize six of my short films made between 1994 and 2003 at Lightpress film laboratory.

  • Heidi Kumao’s “Experimental Animation” course

    Presentation for the course.

  • “Touching Teaching: Animating Care and Conjuring Closeness in Contactless Times”

  • The Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film in the Digital Era

    Presenting at the online conference, June 10, 2021, 11 am EST.

  • “Re/Lens: Old Glass for New Eyes”

    A workshop with Amir Husak and Melissa Friedling. March 14, 2020, livestreamed.

  • NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music and Theatre

    Awarded a grant for finishing An Odd Pair.

  • Yaddo Residency Fellow

    January 21 – February 4, 2020.

  • All My Fathers

    October 3–20, 2019, at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, New York, NY. About the project →