Queen of the Sun

Assistant Editor. Location Coordinator. Research.

It was an honor to be part of the team that created this excellent documentary about the global bee crisis. Visit the webiste to watch clips and learn more about this beautiful and timely film.

Queen of the Sun
Collective Eye Production

work + play

Director. Camera. Editor.

This documentary explores different ways parents who run home businesses use their space and technology for two very different purposes. It highlights both the challenges that exist in melding a nurturing presence and professional demeanor and the ways technology helps make this possible. Ultimately, this is about the chaning social landscape and the emegent lifestyles of using non-traditional parenting and non-traditional professionalism to create a healthy work-life balance.

Thesis for MA Visual Anthropology
University of Manchester

Valentines

Director. Camera. Editor.

I created a series of shorts intended to be Valentines for the subject's sweetheart. I asked each person about their relationship and their lover to elicit sweet, honest declarations. Each interview was then edited down to concentrate these moments into an incredibly personal video card and a documentation of this moment in their narrative together.

It's Love Isn't It?

Director. Camera. Editor.

A mother wonders how much her child knows about her traumatic birth experience. Sarah really wanted a natural birth, but feels she was manipulated by doctors to have a c-section. She reads her daughters actions closely, wondering if she knows that her entrance into this world was marked with pain.

Part of MA Visual Anthropology
University of Manchester

Gradations of Independence

Director. Camera. Editor.

Portland, OR has a very healthy independent film scene. Sundance is the premiere independent film festival. These two sentences both use the term "independent" but they operate on a different scale and mean different things. The struggling artists lend an air of authenticity to the Indiewood films, but those films and their mainstream distribution are a far cry from the pracitce of indie artists who need a day job to get by. Linguistic and Visual Anthropological methodolgies tease out who's doing it for the money, who's doing it for the love and how you can tell by looking at their work.

Video for this project is not available online.

Thesis project for BA Anthropology
Reed College