Fallout (2023)
Director/Editor/Cinematographer
As community members in a rural Appalachian town become sick, the source of the contagion is called into question. Fallout follows three individuals experiencing illnesses after exposure to environmental contamination from a nearby United States Army Ammunition Plant. The film incorporates digital footage as well as over 600 feet of 16mm film processed with contaminants from the facility.
Fallout premiered on PBS as part of its Reel South Series. Additionally, Fallout has screened at festivals including St. Louis International Film Festival, Thin Line Fest, Charlotte Film Festival, and Mammoth Lakes Film Festival.
Wild Foods (2022)
Director/Editor/Cinematographer
Wild Foods reimagines the Nature Documentary by turning our attention to our own backyards as a landscape worth cherishing. Less than two miles from the North Carolina State Capitol Building, a group of foragers search for lawn foods in one of Raleigh’s largest public parks.
Light, Distance, Time (2022)
Director/Editor
Light, Distance, Time began in 1955 and continued with the unearthing of my grandmother’s film in October of 2021. In Light, Distance, Time, film is a physical form that lives and dies like the memories it captures. Although at once pristine, these images of midcentury America physically decay in front of our eyes and call to question the integrity of memory and our attempt to preserve it.
Half Past Seven (2021)
Director/Editor
Made in collaboration with Half Past Seven and the family-owned workshop that supplies their goods, this film documents the intricate process that goes into each piece of handblown glass.
Resistance in the Valley (2017), Excerpt
Director/Editor/Cinematographer
In May of 2016, twenty student activists traveled the route of the proposed Mountain Valley Pipeline to visit affected sites and community members. With a budget of $300, we followed the students as they traveled the 300 miles over the course of seven days.
The documentary was shot on location as the students traveled by car and camped overnight. We often spent the days utilizing outlets in community centers and gas stations to charge batteries and download footage from the previous days. After six months of assembling and editing footage, the documentary premiered at The Lyric Theatre in Blacksburg, Virginia.