Pronouns: they, them, theirs

I am a queer, nonbinary filmmaker, editor, director, artist, educator, facilitator, and space holder with 15 years of experience in documentary, narrative, and experimental film, education, and community building.

As an editor, I am highly organized, technically skilled, boldly creative, and ethically dedicated. I have edited commercially for a range of clients including MTV, Refinery 29, Nickelodeon, Food Network, Condé Nast, NBC Universal, multiple short narrative, documentary, and experimental films, and as a primary editor on the feature documentary, Roleplay.

As a director, I am a rigorous steward of vision, an attentive and compassionate leader, and a facilitator of emergent processes for storytelling and collaboration. My directing work includes short narrative films and award winners such as the kinky TV pilot, Mercy Mistress, and documentary projects, A Spell For Queer Home, Home Abyss and Dear Elsa: 10 Letters + 10 Experiments.

I have exhibited work in SXSW, DOCNYC, the Pride, Athens International Film & Video, Thomas Edison, Big Muddy, Brooklyn Women’s, Outgaze, Asian American International, Splice, Newark International, Damn These Heels Queer, Merced Queer, and Imagine This Womxn’s International Film Festivals, NewFilmmakers Los Angeles, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest, Queer Spectra Arts Festival, NOFLASH Video Show, Hyperreal Film Club’s HYPERDRIVE series, Landscape x Olympia video residency at Elsewhere, on FemmePowerTV, and at the Museum of Sex and Performance Space.

As an educator and facilitator, my vision is to create space and impetus for other artists to engage in thoughtful, intentional, and creative risk-taking and reflection with a lens toward challenging the ways oppressive systems manifest and collectively using art to imagine and catalyze new futures. I have put this vision into practice through teaching filmmaking at Reel Works, Hunter College, and Spy Hop Productions and Reflection Collective, a series of workshops and offerings that explore DIY and experimental filmmaking practices with a focus on exploration, introspection, and connection.

I hold a BA in Film from Montana State University and an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College.

I am currently the Artist Foundry Manager at the Utah Film Center.

I am also the co-facilitator of iowahouseSLC, a queer and trans community building project in Salt Lake City.

My artistic approach explores evolutions of intimacy, identity, body, and connection by utilizing practices of performance, embodiment, multiplicity, experimentation, and magic in the processes, stories, and experiences I choose to steward. I seek to create work that provides questions rather than answers, points of connection rather than completed paths, and exists in the cracks between art and life, subject and collaborator, narrative and performance, and the community and materials with which they are made. I am interested in using image and sound as material to shift time and memory, seek the unknown, gently disrupt consciousness, and in doing so, create space for new possibilities of being and connecting. Everything I create seeks to queer both the process and the content. I am rooted in my belief that video is a portal for breaking binaries, creating embodied experience, and a way to see and be seen. My films, projects, workshops, offerings, and spaces are reflections, openings, and spells, ways to see ourselves, question, and imagine, to hold nuance, complexity, and fluidity, to be in community.