This Side of Salina
Four Black women from the city of Syracuse, New York, reflect on sexuality, youthful regret, emotional vulnerability, raising a daughter, and working in reproductive health services.
2024
FILMS/VIDEOS
2024
Contractions
In the wake of the overturning of Roe v Wade, “Contractions” takes us to Memphis, Tennessee where we contemplate the discontinuation of abortion services at a women’s health clinic.
2023
The Jitters
Shot one frame at a time, “the Jitters” includes wiggling around, three pet frogs, and two bonsai trees.
2023
She Carries the Holiday in Her Eyes
A picture of parallels and swirls, two women touch with eyes closed, use cameras in motion, discover a holiday of optics.
2022
Swerve
Paolo Javier is a poet who thinks like a filmmaker. I am a filmmaker who thinks like a poet. In Swerve, we’ve come up with our own kind of movie language, or at least a dialect that articulates how we observe the world together as two artists using images, sounds, and words.
2021
Figure and I
Kristine Leschper wrote to me with a very intriguing proposition: create a short film in response to her song “Figure and I”. I knew that this deeply rhythmic two-minute song needed some kind of somatic imagery.
