A short meditation on becoming and being.

Boys Clap, Girls Dance

A short meditation on becoming and being.

Through journal entries, a mother’s words, neighborhood stories, and existential inquiries; one still searches for meaning beyond the walls of one's mind.

as time passes

Through journal entries, a mother's words, neighborhood stories, and existential inquiries; one still searches for meaning beyond the walls of one's mind.

A ghost, a face, lucid minerals, vague landscapes... What do you see when my words fall?

Only If You Could See a View Above the Clouds

A ghost, a face, lucid minerals, vague landscapes... What do you see when my words fall?

A nonbinary visual artist contemplates their relationship with darkness and its hold on their complexion, trauma and queerness.

ELE OF THE DARK

A nonbinary visual artist contemplates their relationship with darkness and its hold on their complexion, trauma and queerness.

An experimental documentary based on the executions of Iranian political prisoners that began in the summer of 1988.

I was born in 1988

An experimental documentary based on the executions of Iranian political prisoners that began in the summer of 1988.

A film about appearing "racially ambiguous". Performing a choreography of resistance, an amalgam of body pieces tries to remain whole in an environment programmed to disassemble it.

Hospes

A film about appearing "racially ambiguous". Performing a choreography of resistance, an amalgam of body pieces tries to remain whole in an environment programmed to disassemble it.

An experiment in film sets the stage for a hitherto unseen magical life form.

Arrest in Flight

An experiment in film sets the stage for a hitherto unseen magical life form.

A film about time, memory, fear, and the challenges of holding onto joy.

Sun Coming and Casting a Shadow

A film about time, memory, fear, and the challenges of holding onto joy.

Through microscopic photography, a filmmaker documents his own subtropical parasitic disease.

Stinger

Through microscopic photography, a filmmaker documents his own subtropical parasitic disease.

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