Stara, a teen-witch-pop-star performs MIRACLES. Miracles is a type of mantra and a manifestation using pop frequency for positivity. Anything is possible if you believe in M-I-R-A-C-L-E-S.

Miracles

Aquí is an experimental 16mm short film exploring what home means to a multicultural young woman living in Oregon. (In Spanish with English subtitles)

Aquí

Clamorseeking is an audiovisual project made over the course of two months living in a tiny house in Poulsbo on the Kitsap Peninsula. Many of the percussive sounds in the music came from field recordings of shells, stones, wood, and water that were encountered and played with on daily walks. I wanted to create an audiovisual object that embodies the experience of introspection aligning with freedom and creativity.

Clamorseeking

In an alternate reality, a team of scientists provoke an ancient inter-dimensional deity known as THE TETRAHEDRON. What started as a scientific exploration turns into a fight for survival as several team members find themselves hopping through various dimensions.

The Tetrahedron

A magical potion and mysterious glory hole suddenly appear to transform a group of bored babes into their truest and most uninhibited forms. Shot by an entirely trans and non-binary cast and crew, Ogre Hole is a light-hearted exploration of transness.

Ogre Hole

A concrete reproduction of a distant neolithic past meets the infrastructure of a green future amidst an ethereal desiccated landscape.

Line of Apsides

Each segment of 12 Months First Love was constructed under restrictions: they could only be made from videos, photos, and music created during the month which they represent. Created chronologically throughout 2019, these video collage pieces were then compiled together. The film "documents" the first year of a relationship which becomes long-distance, the death of a childhood pet, and the travels between home and not-home.

12 Months First Love

An attempt to follow a breathing exercise which turns into a nightmare.

Inhale/Exhale

A new melody for an ancient song whose voice has been lost - pilgrims on a still sea plunge into fear when a powerful storm pulls them out farther and farther, until suddenly an eerie calm creeps in and a giant sea serpent appears, ready to fight. "Le Voyage de saint Brendan'' is recounted in the medieval insular dialect of Old French and accompanied with an English translation reflecting the 12th century metric and rhyme scheme.

Monstres en Mer (Somewhere at Sea)

Lost in Barcelona, Alicia tries to find the place that she used to visit as a child.

Secret Place

In response to scc's experimental theater showcase prompt "Origins: True Tales of the American Immigrant Experience".

Lima's Place

Day Dreamin' takes place between the bed and scenes along the Salish Sea, and forest. The film tells the story of a person struggling to get out of bed, preferring the excitement of the semi-lucid morning dream space to the presumed monotony awaiting in the day ahead.

Day Dreamin'

A meditation on interiors, exteriors, and the shadows between them.

The Walls Were Violet

During the summers of 2020 and 2021, I worked as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service on the Willamette National Forest in the foothills of the Cascades. I lived alone with my dog at Warner Lookout and was responsible for tracking weather and new fire starts. This film is a compilation of images from my time at work as well as video poems I curated and filmed in my off hours.

Ranger Danger

When an unexpected tragedy occurs, how can one family navigate the aftermath? A tribute to a young girl who died before her time and what happened after through the memories of her family. This work in progress concerns topics of child death and grief. Support this work by becoming a patron at <a href="https://www.patreon.com/Mistress_Diana_Darc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">patreon.com/Mistress_Diana_Darc</a>.

After Katie

T’shuvah is an experimental film exploring the ways we repeatedly return to self through love and loss. In Jewish practice t’shuvah is a process of spiritual accountability, a time of realignment with personal and collective healing and transformation. The sonic landscape is composed of the amalgamation of six separate poems that lead into one cohesive piece, to which improvised movement is paired. T’shuvah documents the gesticulation of poetics. This is a dance between poetry and movement; traversing the nuance of beginnings and endings, tenderness and anger, pain and joy.

T'shuvah

A Manual for a correct study of Telepathy in 3 steps leads the story through an evocative universe in which the characters are immersed. The mind is like a shipwreck, which always leaves remains on the beach…a story depicted in colors, shapes and symbols. Mental Soirée tells the story of two shipwrecked people who meet in a unique soirée.

Mental Soirée

Exploration of masculinity begins with the Minotaur, a mythical creature Picasso used to portray himself in his etching print series. The Minotaur goes through a violent struggle between being male and female. Finally, lines blur and boundaries of sexes disappear.

Eyes and Horns

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