Feature length dream project in (pre)-pre-production

The System Works, 85 mins, 2026 (Rough Cut)

A delirious invocation/loose adaptation of Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin’s “The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of U.S Empire”

Part 1: 1914-49

Alan J. Pakula’s Paranoia trilogy gets a Trumpian spin - or a return of the [conspiratorial] repressed: mysteries, revelations, and deception woven into a vast web of collective memories and traumas.

54 Shocks, 16 mins, 2025

A paean and lamentation for Paul Robeson

An archaeological exploration of the “medical public imagination”. Digging up footage from every imaginable source in the hopes of finding an alternative or radical history of medical care in the United States.

Music: “Alo” (Tahsan Khan), “Baladin” (Nancy Ajaj), “Watan” (Aryana Sayed w/ Qais Ulfat),

According to data from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), January and February 2026 mark the deadliest start to a year for Mediterranean migrant crossings since records began in 2014. At least 655 deaths or disappearances have been recorded so far, more than double the 287 reported during the same period in 2025.

Ode to Black Girl

Music: "Something Wild in the City: Mary Ann's Theme" (Morton Feldman)

Footage: "Black Girl" (Ousmane Sembène, 1966)

Footage: "Vertigo" (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Music: “Acts of Magic” (Boards of Canada)

Footage: “Vertigo” (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958)

Music: “Rothko Chapel: 5th Movement” (Morton Feldman)

Footage: “I Am the Way: A Pictorial Study of Jesus’ Life and Ministry in Holy Land Settings” (Religious Motion Picture Foundation, Inc., 1931)

Audio: Gene Akutsu (Densho Digital Depository, Interview 1016-4, Segment 2) / Music: “Minidoka: III. Haiku: Andante Cantabile” (Paul Chihara)

 Footage: “Home Movie: Koura Family Collections: 006104 and 006110” (Prelinger Archives, 1940-41), “Home Movie: Hirota Family Collection: 071160” (Prelinger Archives, c. 1930s)

Audio: Gene Akutsu (Densho Digital Depository, Interview 1016-4, Segment 2)

Footage: “Home Movie: Hirota Family Collection: 071160” (Prelinger Archives, c. 1930s), “Home Movie: Koura Family Collections: 006104 and 006110” (Prelinger Archives, 1940-41)

Music: “Canticum Canticorum Salomonis” (Krzysztof Penderecki), “Power and Dissent” (Maya Shenfeld)

Music: “The Coup” (Maya Shenfeld)

Music: The Ceremony OST (Toru Takemitsu) + Secret Honor OST (George Burt) 

Footage: "Secret Honor" (Robert Altman)

Music: “Dream in White on White” (John Luther Adams)

Footage: “Nuclear Strategy for Beginners” (Time-Life Video, 1984)

Music: “Clouds of Forgetting, Clouds of Unknowing: Clouds of mixed Seconds” (John Luther Adams) 

Footage: “Alice in the Cities” (Wim Wenders, 1974)

Music: “Over the Edge” (Symmetry)

Footage: “Point Blank” (John Boorman, 1967)

Music: “Tonight” (The Juan MacLean)  /// Footage: "The Wedding March" (Erich von Stroheim)

Music: "Ode To Street Hassle" (Spacemen 3)

Footage: "News from Home" (Chantal Akerman)

Music: "Scène d’Amour" from Vertigo OST (Bernard Herrmann) 

Footage: "War and Peace" (Sergei Bondarchuk)

Incredible Machines

Audio: Gwendolyn Brooks reading

Music: “Heirloom” (Björk)

Footage: “Coy Family Home Movie 005085”  (Coy Collection, 1970)

Music: “Psychotic Photosynthesis” (Omar-S)

Footage: “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” (Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, and Adrian Malon, 1980)

Kenyatta Listening to Mozart read/written by Amiri Baraka

Footage: "U.S. Delegation Visit to Kenya" (U.S. State Department, 1968), "Azania" (Herbert McCoy, 1969), "Black Journal: Interview with Amiri Baraka" (NET, 1972)

“Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats” by Billy Collins

Cinema as both mythology and history, as both liberated by dream logic yet bound up with material reality; as the delight and fantasy of the Belle Epoque is undercut by portents of doom. An ode to and an interrogation of the Lumière brothers, riffing on their imagery in the hopes of discovering something new or even elemental to the film medium. As well, a celebration of the ways in which these films encapsulate the magical intersection of the archives, geography, and history.

Music by Jesse Brown

Needle Gun, 2014, 2 mins

The horror genre stripped of narrative and narration. Total creep.

Wandering Solitude, 2020, 6 minutes

An attempt at a sort of intoxicating reverie exploring themes of alienation, absence, darkness, and desire. It was in part inspired by a concept/proposition that “the energy of desire be transformed into a utopian machine”. Wandering Solitude is a deeply personal and therapeutic work animated by the blurry and mysterious boundaries between the subconscious, the sociopolitical, and the cosmos.

Daddy, Are You A Warmonger, 2010, 6 minutes

Former congressman turned lobbyist Jim Moran once said about the government-driven boom in the D.C. suburbs, "Maryland got the life sciences and Virginia got the death sciences." Harbingers of death and destruction dot a bucolic suburban landscape seen often from Virginia’s scenic byways. A landscape where media, commerce, and war perfectly intersect, and all of it undergirded by the promotion and execution of spectacular violence .

Life is Something Special, 3 mins, 2017

A tirade from 2000s era Congressman Mike Pence anchors this exploration of the contradictory anti-life strains of the pro-life movement. The detritus and carnage of the Bush II era looms in the background while the chorus of the Peech Boys “Life is Something Special” plays. All of this culminating in an audiovisual assault as discombobulating and nauseating as the subject at hand.

Pale Stan Brakhage Imitation of Life, 2014, 1 mins

Speed + Vision = Transfiguration

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.” - Stan Brakhage

“The Virgin Mary Responds to Her Critics”, 2012, 4 minutes

Inspired by the iconography of the Virgin Mary and the dark beauty of Catholic aesthetics. Light, camerawork, montage all work to create an atmosphere immersed in the mystery of divine darkness, a darkness devoid of fear and anguish and marked by mystery and eroticism.

“Future Half” (Face of Man), 2011, 4 mins,

Double Team Joey Castellano, 2011, 1 mins

In and around Riverside Park 2009; young men in motion, skating and playing basketball. Bathed in a shimmering gold light often refracted and manipulated by overexposure and overlaid images. There is a hint of menace and desire. Take it as you will.