An incarcerated crew fights fires for 70¢ an hour. A housebound mother struggles against the celebration of matrescent martyrdom. Observing and reenacting daily routines where human potential is bought and sold, these projects document their own production in contested terrain, confronting the exploitations of capitalist culture on the clock.

In a world of escalating wildfires and expanding prison systems, an incarcerated crew fights fires for 70¢ an hour. As the camera observes their daily routines, it examines not just their labor, but the systems of surveillance shaping both their lives and the film’s production.

as the fires rage on

This short film uses a destructive, frame-by-frame editing pipeline to glitch and reshape a spoken testimony into a reflection of the filmmaker's own anxieties. Through generative fill, frame-interpolation, and manipulative editing, the narrative is humorously transformed into a disturbing commentary on the pastimes of the elite.

documentary

Reality, fiction, and performance overlap when Shaggy asks his boss for a two-week vacation.

Shaggy's Big Break

Four middle-aged women each confront their deepest fears in their dreams—things they never wish to happen, yet feel as if they have already lived through. In the end, dreams and reality blur into one indistinguishable chaos.

DUST DREAM

A housebound mother's hunger for agency and control among the mutating textures and temporalities of her home sets off an uncanny transformation. A portrait of matrescence and post-partum depression in the time of pandemic lockdown, narrated in Western Armenian— the filmmaker's endangered mother tongue.

Domestic Demon

As the UK overhauls its benefits system, three disabled people navigate a hostile bureaucracy that demands constant proof of disability in order to access support. Through re-edited interviews and speculative imagery, the film reveals how enforced visibility restricts care. As an alternative, the film imagines aesthetic interdependence as a radical form of resistance.

Independence

An incarcerated crew fights fires for 70¢ an hour. A housebound mother struggles against the celebration of matrescent martyrdom. Observing and reenacting daily routines where human potential is bought and sold, these projects document their own production in contested terrain, confronting the exploitations of capitalist culture on the clock.

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