EDUCATION:
MFA, Program in Film and Video, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
BFA, Visual Arts, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, NY
FILMOGRAPHY:
Landforms (in-progress, 2024)
de-composition (3 min, 4K, 2023)
Fracture (4 min, 2K, 2020)
Las Breas (12 min, 2K, 2019)
Aquamarine (7 min, HD, 2018)
Meridian Plain (18 min, 2K, 2016)
Irradiant Field (10 min, HD, 2016)
Port Noir (11 min, HD, 2014)
Devil’s Gate (20 min, HD, 2011)
Vineland (10 min, DV, 2009)
34°/-117° (1 min, 16mm, 2009)
Skynoise (5 min, DV, 2008)
Language of Memory (3.23 min, 16mm, 2009)
American Parade (17 min, DV, 2006)
Suzan Pitt: Persistence of Vision (28 min, DV, 2006)
Cortlandt Alley (19 min, DV, 2002)
AWARDS/GRANTS:
2023 New York State Council for the Arts Support for Artists Grant
2023 UB OVPRED/Humanities Institute Research Grant
2021 “Geological Anxiety Award,” Chicago Underground Film Festival
2020 Director’s Choice Award, Spectral Film Festival
2019 NYSCA/Wave Farm Media Arts Assistance Fund
2018 Jury Award for Short Film, Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas
2017 Special Jury Mention, VideoEx Film and Video Festival
2016 Princess Grace Foundation Professional Development Award
2016 Film House Award, Athens International Film and Video Festival
2016 Leon Speakers Award for Best Sound Design, Ann Arbor Film Festival
2016 CalArts Faculty Travel Grant
2015 Jury Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
2015 CalArts Faculty Travel Grant
2012 Golden Gate Award Nomination at San Francisco International Film Festival
2011 Honorable Mention, Chicago Underground Film Festival
2010 Princess Grace Foundation John H. Johnson Film Award
2010 The City is Cinema Jury Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival
2010 CalArts Film/Video Project Grant
2009 Beutner Award for Excellence in the Arts (Finalist)
2009–2010 Ahmanson Project Grant
2008–2010 CalArts Film/Video Dean’s Grant
2008-2010 CalArts Film/Video Scholarship
EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Burchfield Penney Art Center, “The Front Yard Film Series”
2023 Cepa Gallery, “Reading Landscapes” with Nicole Chochrek
SCREENINGS:
2024
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival 10th Anniversary at Alternative Cinema, Colgate University
Light Matter Film Festival at Film-Maker’s Coop, NYC
Light Matter Film Festival at No Name Cinema, Santa Fe, NM
2023
Athens International Film and Video Festival
”Material Universe #3,” Evans School, Denver, CO (curated by Kalpana Subramanian)
Fisura, International Experimental Film & Video, Mexico City
Aurora Picture Show, Extremely Shorts Film Festival, Houston, TX
Braziers International Film Festival, Oxfordshire, UK
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Revolutions Per Minute Film Festival, Boston, MA
Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, BC
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, Binghamton, NY
Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY
RPM Festival, Macau Edition, “Palimpsest”
Director’s Lounge: Contemporary Media & Art, “Dark Sun Rising,” Berlin, Germany
2022
Selections from the Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY
Kodama Environmental Film Festival, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021
Deluge Contemporary Art, “rising” program from Dec 5, 2021- Jan 9, 2022
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Hawick, Scotland
Bogota Experimental Film Festival
REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, Mur Murs Film Series
Buffalo International Film Festival
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, BC
Light Matter Film Festival, Alfred, NY
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Istanbul Experimental Film Festival
Kodama Film Festival
Anthology Film Archives
2020
Rencontres Internationales: New Cinema and Contemporary Art, Paris/Berlin
Labocine, “Data Powers”
Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Center, “Punctures: Threading History”
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, “Notes Towards an Infinite Film Program II: Signal, Skin, Pixel, Camera”
Colgate University, Alternative Cinema Series, “Breath Poetics in Experimental Film
Best of Chicago Underground Film Festival
Gimli Film Festival
Spectral Film Festival
Ultracinema MX
2019
ZINEBI Bilbao International Festival of Documentary and Short Films
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image
Medienwerkstatt, Vienna (Two Journeys)
Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles (Two Journeys)
Antimatter Media Art
Buffalo International Film Festival
Berlin Atonal
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Hopkins Center for the Arts at Dartmouth
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival
Top Banana, Los Angeles
Athens International Film Festival
MoMA Doc Fortnight, NYC
Images and Views of Alternative Cinema, Nicosia, Cyprus
2018
Lausanne Underground Film and Music Festival, Switzerland
Swiss Film Archive, Lausanne
McAvoy Foundation for the Arts, (No Time exhibition) San Francisco, CA
Stranglosocpe International Festival of Experimental Film, Audio, & Performance, Brazil
An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
American Medium (Folds of Existence: Riddles in the Hills), NYC
Les Inattendus, Lyon, France
Edge of Frame Weekend, London, UK
SUNY Binghamton, Visiting Artist
Fovéa Film Festival, Nice, France
Cineteca Nacional, Mexico City
2017
BFI London Film Festival (Experimenta)
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Tiger Shorts Competition)
Rencontres Internationales Sciences et Cinémas (Jury Award for Short Film)
Hamburg International Short Film Festival (International Competition)
VideoEx Film and Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland (Special Jury Mention)
MoMA Doc Fortnight, NYC
Portland International Film Festival
Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Scotland
Athens International Film and Video Festival
NOFEST, Milan
Kyiv International Short Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
Questões de Espaço (Matters of Space), Sala Redenção, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Moscow International Experimental Film Festival
Antimatter Media Art, Victoria BC
25 FPS Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb
First Person Cinema, UC Boulder
2016
Antimatter Media Art, Victoria, BC
Cinema Project, Portland, OR
REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles
Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX
Iris Film Collective, Vancouver, BC
Unexposed Microcinema, Durham, NC
Directors Lounge Berlin- Urban Research
Haverhill Experimental Film Festival
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Poetic Research Bureau, Los Angeles
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Ann Arbor Film Festival (Best Sound Design Award)
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Film House Award)
2015
Ann Arbor Film Festival (Jury Award)
New York Film Festival: Projections
Art Toronto Fair: Verge Video
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Film House Award)
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC
Chicago Underground Film Festival
Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, NY
Strange Beauty Film Festival, Durham, NC
Traverse City Film Festival
Red Barn, UC Santa Barbara, “Portal Atop a Bus Stop”
REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles, “Transforming Spaces: New Films from L.A. Filmmakers”
2014
Cinema du Réel Documentary Film Festival, Paris
Encuentros del Otro Cine (EDOC) Documentary Film Festival, Quito
2013
Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, “Moving_Image #12 – L for Light”
Los Angeles Filmforum, “Constructions of Los Angeles”
Sight Unseen, Baltimore, MD, “Out There, Over Time”
MIA at the Armory Center for the Arts, “Same Ocean”
FLEX Fest, Gainesville, FL
Urban Research at Berlin International Director’s Lounge
Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
2012
Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, “Transient Control”
Pleasure Dome, Toronto, “Ready for Extinction”
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal, “Ésoterique”
Other Cinema, San Francisco, “Desert Rats”
Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, “In Which Appear” (curated by Fern Silva)
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin (Rencontres Internationales)
Uplink Factory, Tokyo (curated by Tomonari Nishikawa)
Sheffield Fringe Festival, “Urban Observations- Los Angeles”
San Francisco International Film Festival
Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University (curated by Mark McElhatten)
Big Muddy Film Festival
Fargo Film Festival
2011
New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant-Garde
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Centre Pompidou, Paris (Rencontres Internationales)
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin (Rencontres Internationales)
Spanish Cinematheque, Madrid (Rencontres Internationales)
Los Angeles Filmforum, “New Urban Observations”
Visions du Réel Film Festival, Nyon, Switzerland
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Beirut Art Center, “Expecting the Images, Part 1. Fragments”
REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles
Maysles Cinema, NYC, “The Experiment”
San Francisco Cinematheque (Crossroads)
Space Gallery, Portland, ME
Union Docs, Brooklyn, NY
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC
Chicago Underground Film Festival (Honorable Mention)
Wisconsin Film Festival
Millenium Film Workshop, “Migration/Dislocations”
CinemaSpace, Segal Centre, Montréal, Canada
Union Theater, Milwaukee, WI
2010
Ann Arbor Film Festival and Tour (Jury Award)
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Centre Pompidou, Paris (Rencontres Internationales)
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
Antimatter Film Festival, Victoria, BC
Gallery 400, UIC, “The Transformation Show” (curated by Ben Russell)
Athens International Film and Video Festival
Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids
Pittsburgh Filmmakers
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, “Los Ángeles Confidencial” (curated by Thom Andersen)
2009
New York Film Festival: Views from the Avant-Garde
REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles
Ottawa International Animation Film Festival
2007
International Film Festival Rotterdam
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., “New City Symphonies”
Los Angeles Filmforum, “An Evening With The Kranings”
Split Film Festival, Croatia
Image Forum Festival, Tokyo
2006
REDCAT Theater, Los Angeles
Denver International Film Festival
National Museum of Women in The Arts Film Festival, D.C.
San Diego Women’s Film Festival
Women Make Waves Film Festival, Taipei
Kansas City Art Institute
Webster University Film Series, St. Louis
Boxcar Film Series, Detroit Film Center
2004
International Film Festival Rotterdam
2003
Art In General Gallery, NYC
New York Underground Film Festival
Chicago Underground Film Festival
2002
Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival
Big Muddy Film Festival, Carbondale, IL
DISTRIBUTION/COLLECTIONS:
Criterion Channel
Fandor (SVOD)
First Run Features
Image Forum (Japan)
University of Chicago at Illinois, Film Studies Center
Art Center College of Design, James Lemont Fogg Memorial Library
California Institute of the Arts, Film Library
48th Ann Arbor Film Festival Short Film Collection DVD
Detroit Film Center's Boxcar Film Series DVD