Videos
My collection of moving portraits, both conventional and experimental :)
Experimental Exercise
An introductory video in my Experimental Cinema course spring 2022. I got to play around with audio and visual effects in order to create something fun, and this is the finished product. I was inspired by the dizzying but fascinating 1977 video, Powers of 10, and decided to use that as the backdrop for the hands.
Call Me (bless the telephone)
"call me (bless the telephone)" was a video I made as the final project for my Live Video Performance Art, taken during the fall semester of 2020. This project is about the beauty in communication (and its necessity during a pandemic), strongly inspired by Kelis' cover of Labi Siffre's song Bless the Telephone. The video is cut over Kelis and Labi's voices singing the aforementioned song. Though I was nervous about this new format of videography and conveying a message through it, the video was chosen to be displayed in the Tisch Open Arts Gallery!
Digital Girl
For the second part of my documentary course (spring semester), we began to explore documentaries using interviews. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, our class was cut short, rendering us limited in terms of contact and access to equipment. Despite this, I managed to conduct a remote interview with the founders of Digital Girl, self-described as "an nyc-based collective created to empower all womxn involved in digital audio." The interviews were conducted via FaceTime, and most of the footage was sent to me from the founders themselves or taken from their social media platforms.
Night Time
This was my final project for my first documentary class, in which I decided to observe one of my suitemates. Eni is a diligent student, with an organized and strict schedule. It is how she manages being a student worker as well as a double major in International Relations and Environmental Science, and her nightly routine is most representative of her priorities. Observing one’s self-care ritual is an essential glimpse into an individual’s rawest self, which is what I aimed to capture in this project.
At the Root
In the fall semester of 2019, I also took a class called (De)Tangling the Business of Black Women's Hair, in which we discussed the historical and cultural significance of Black women's hair expression in America. For our final project, instead of writing an essay, I and my peers Artavia Taylor and Ugochi Egonu decided to create a documentary capturing intergenerational conversations and ideas surrounding Black hair.
Hour 2
In my Fundamentals of Documentary Filmmaking class, we focused on observation for the duration of the semester. One of my assignments specifically required the filming of an activity. I chose to document an artistic process, specifically the songwriting process. Dani and Manie had booked three hours of studio time with the intentions of writing one song per hour. This is the second hour of their studio time (hence the title), and the second song from that night.
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