Film and Media

I am increasingly fascinated with ways that immersive documentary practice can be used to deconstruct narrative. The interactive documentary world has many facets (virtual reality, augmented reality, etc.) and I intentionally use the term “immersive” as a way to distinguish my own practice, which includes both online interactive web platforms as well as social media as a form of documentary practice.

My documentary filmes and immersive projecgts are a part of my practice-based research, where I use the act of creation as a way to understand phenomena. PBR allows me the space to investigate queestions that I may not have known to ask — issues or conditions that only emerged through the act of creation.

I describe myself as a hybrid filmmaker and scholar, as comfortable in traditional platforms as I am in more experimental creative projects.

Landscape Stories

This project merges oral histories with augmented reality, immersive online film making, and social media to tell the story of the American landscape. Recipient of a National Association of Broadcasters Pilot Innovation Grant. In production.

Pin Up! The Movie: An Interactive Documentary

Meet the global phenomenon! Spanning six continents and seven years in the making, this interactive documentary immerses you in the global world of pin up. You’ll discover the women (and men) who are making their mark on the world with vintage style. 2021.

Pin Up! The Movie

Contemporary pin up girls, and the women who inspired them. Inspired by the art of Gil Elvgren and Alberto Varga, and the style sense of Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page, the pin up is, in the words of art historian Maria Elena Buszek, “a uniquely American phenomena.” The modern pinup is enticing, captivating, independent, and omnipresent – a thoroughly 21st century woman. 2015.

Homefront Heroines: The WAVES of World War II

Through oral histories, the documentary reveals a hidden history about a generation which changed the course of American life. The women who enlisted in the Navy and Coast Guard during Worlld War II may not have realized it at the time, but they were riding on the cusp of the wave of the future. As one woman notes, they were the “hinges of history.” 2013.

Ghost Resort

This experimental documentary offers a haunting reflection of remorse and remembrance within the conflicting framework of “paradise.” The film’s digital manipulations of sound and image challenge conventional notions of the role of the documentary storyteller and reality. The resulting questions are posed by a reliably unreliable narrator, Moira, a digital construction with a backstory through whose “eyes” and “voice” this visual poem unfolds. Producer. 2021.