Portland Documentary & eXperimental Film Festival

Love and Loss surrounded by two historical disasters.

A feverish reverie in which images glimpsed from a train window become lodged in a dream-like world of menace and beauty.

Through simple animation, this piece is a meditation on the ‘Defenestration of Prague’- the spark that began the Thirty Years’ War. Richly layered images evoking nature, humanity, and heaven explore this moment in history.

A childhood memory is told by an African living in Berlin. These stories of African magic meet drawings on the walls of a prison in Berlin, where refused asylum seekers are kept prior to their expulsion to their countries of origin.

Agua is a video about trying to stay afloat.

Reduced to rhythm and texture, the lights that lead us home reveal signs and cathode ray wonders.

This piece was created in response to the killing of James Jahar Perez by Portland Police during a traffic stop. Perez was a black man driving a nice car in the wrong neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. Within 24 seconds of being pulled over he was dead. I wanted to make a video about that time: 24 seconds.

A digitally animated adaptation of Soviet psychologist A.R. Luria’s research in Central Asia and interviews with Uzbek and Kyrgyz farmers who lived on or near the Soviet-sponsored collective farms in the 1930’s. the Soviets had introduced literacy programs into these primarily Muslim oral-based agricultural communities, and interested in documenting the cognitive changes that people experience when learning to read, Luria captured the cultural conflict of Soviet Socialism and Islam. In HOW TO FIX THE WORLD, these interviews are brought to life through digital animation, illustrating a particular historical moment when one culture attempted to transform another in the name of education and modernization.