Conjuring ghosts banal and intimate in speculative reconstructions of disappeared historical narratives, these films interrogate both ephemerality and endurance. Juxtaposing personal and sociopolitical layers, the Poor Image (no matter how quotidian or forsaken) illuminates neglected pasts, embodied presents, and potential futures.

A travelog through the familiar and unfamiliar terrain of digital landscapes. Pairing 16mm footage of computer desktop backgrounds with soundscapes of sites of technological extraction – precious metal mining, smelting foundries, microprocessing plants, and data farms – this project excavates and examines the geological and geographical sites that produce our virtual worlds.

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Drawing its title from a song by Afghan singer Ahmad Zahir, "you have black eyes" is a stream-of-consciousness montage depicting collective bodies in a constant state of disruption, movement, processing, and grieving. It celebrates the body as a historical, domestic site of resistance through dance and movement including found footage of ants carrying flowers, rubab player Ustad Beltoon interrupted, and Hazara throat singing across an imaginary landscape.

demarcations; you have black eyes (cheshmeh siya daree)

How to make a film about an event for which there are no moving images? In my search to make a project about Ecuador's largest worker's strike, which ended in the massacre of hundreds or thousands of workers in 1922 (and of which there are no moving images), I turn to other work from that same year. Inspired by Hito Steyerl's essay "In Defense of the Poor Image", this found-footage essay-film reclaims the "poor image" in the context of past and present class struggles in Ecuador.

1922

This project takes an unflinching, personal look into growing up with a flawed foundation. Using a remix of archival and personal footage, it explores concepts of childhood, trauma, and the complexities of familial love.

Roots

Personal archival VHS engages with a core question for artists in times of chaos: who owns a memory and what is its value? A record of the queer Midwest - drugs, sex, love, friendship, and a failed Los Angeles movie deal.

Even god

Using footage from my grandpa's retirement party, I explore memory, death, and masculinity.

a video about red balloons

A love letter about correspondence, an elegy to gay porn, and a promise to remember.

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