Updates
The Story of The Cricket Queen
The “Story of The Cricket Queen” recreates digital media tropes, trends, and aesthetics with analog film techniques.
Nothing in Particular (Unboxing Video)
A woman in Minneapolis reflects on becoming a new mom in the upheavals of 2020 through a seemingly banal object: cardboard. Combining stop motion animation with live action, this experimental essay unpacks the messiness of everyday life through the desires both revealed and hidden when we open the box.
Mantis Stream! Like & Subscribe
Craig gets engaged and chokes to death on an egg, live on the internet.
Big City Pizza
As tension rises in the big city for the Omniball Championship, Boney, a skeleton pizza delivery man starts his shift. Animated entirely from Boney’s POV in one continuous, unbroken take, we follow his delivery route where every stop is weirder than the last.
Branching Narratives: The Life, Death, and Rebirth of the Tappan Oak
This film represents both singular and collective stories. A lone undergraduate student communes with a tree to help him feel connected to a college campus from which he felt alienated. A professor collaborates with students to create a sense of belonging to Michigan’s natural environment. A society of students fosters belonging by performing a ritual […]
Anyone lived in a pretty how town
In a picturesque town, a man named “anyone” rejoices in the beauty of everyday life and celebrates the natural world. The people around him, however, are more focused on conforming to modern society, and ostracize anyone for being different.
The Life and Times of G
The Life and Times of G is a single channel version of an immersive four screen video installation that explores the tension between two opposing modes of technology and cognition. Inspired by Ursula Franklin’s concepts of holistic and prescriptive technologies, the piece examines how adaptive, individual-centered processes contrast with rigid, conformity-driven systems that increasingly shape […]
The Newcomer
*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* Amy forges an intense bond with the ghost in her apartment, risking the erosion of her own identity.
Myself Two Seconds to Cry
The digital presence left by people I knew who died young has vanished. Songs they uploaded, photo albums, public diary entries, all deleted and all that’s left is generic obituaries. When I think of these people, I think of a place. With two cameras, I’m capturing the outline of a memory we shared there in […]