Drift through the spectacle! Drift is a 22-minute aggregate montage created with a bricolage production style. In traditional film production it is typical to execute on a pre-, principal-, and post-production line. With Drift, many of my images were built intermittently over two- and four-year periods, often without a screenplay or rigid plan of execution. I chose to explore as many film techniques as possible often preferring to shoot in the moment while taking inspiration from the present and editing in line with surrealist automatism. When it came time to edit and structure Drift’s montage, I had a rich bank of content to work with.

Drift is a structural avant-garde film that is influenced by film scholars and cineastes. It is both the film process and how it’s defined by the filmmaker that helps to demarcate cinema. And I live by their words. I have many influences in this film, but I always return to the works of: Maya Deren (American avant-garde legend), Hollis Frampton (experimental, structural filmmaker), Germaine Dulac (1920s, queer and feminist impressionist and surrealist filmmaker), Slavkho Vorkapich (a 1930s professional editor hired in Hollywood for the sole purpose of making montage), Stella F. Simon (1920s Avant-garde filmmaker who lived in Salt Lake City for a time), and Chris Marker (Left Bank French New Wave genius).