/ director, writer, editor
WAIT FOR NIGHT
2023 / 30m / color / 2:39
A speculative image tries in vain to capture the effect of an increasingly harsh climate on a deteriorating landscape. Two siblings return to their late father’s house for the last time, but they encounter an already unfamiliar environment in the place that holds their past. An old neighbor emerges, an enduring witness to the land, and tries to describe what’s happened to their way of life. WAIT FOR NIGHT is a triptych of loss in America’s Southwest.
Starring: Irma Yuliana Barbosa, Rigo Garay & Chuy García
DP: Lidia Nikonova
Sound: Shaun Yee
PD: Marian Wood
Recipient of 2022 NALIP Latino Lens incubator & Fall 2022 Future of Film is Female grant
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This film is a proof of concept for a feature project currently in development.
2023 / 30m / color / 2:39
A speculative image tries in vain to capture the effect of an increasingly harsh climate on a deteriorating landscape. Two siblings return to their late father’s house for the last time, but they encounter an already unfamiliar environment in the place that holds their past. An old neighbor emerges, an enduring witness to the land, and tries to describe what’s happened to their way of life. WAIT FOR NIGHT is a triptych of loss in America’s Southwest.
Starring: Irma Yuliana Barbosa, Rigo Garay & Chuy García
DP: Lidia Nikonova
Sound: Shaun Yee
PD: Marian Wood
Recipient of 2022 NALIP Latino Lens incubator & Fall 2022 Future of Film is Female grant
This film is a proof of concept for a feature project currently in development.
WHEN THERE WAS WATER
2022 / 15m / 16mm, color / 1:66
After a long separation, Ida’s encounter with her mother creates an unexpected sensation in her body. She resists the forceful lens of her daily life, cutting off the outside world, as she tries to recreate the image of her mother in her mind and body.
Starring: Irma Yuliana Barbosa, Idalis DeLeón
DP: Lidia Nikonova
Sound: Shaun Yee
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2022 / 15m / 16mm, color / 1:66
After a long separation, Ida’s encounter with her mother creates an unexpected sensation in her body. She resists the forceful lens of her daily life, cutting off the outside world, as she tries to recreate the image of her mother in her mind and body.
Starring: Irma Yuliana Barbosa, Idalis DeLeón
DP: Lidia Nikonova
Sound: Shaun Yee
SLIP
2019 / 12m / color / 1:78
A woman arrives home at the end of a regular day, but as she begins to turn in for the night, she is overcome with a sense of restlessness. Unable to fit inside her own world, she goes back out into the night. Her journey around a mostly vacant city, obscured by darkness, cascades in space and time, away from one feeling and in search of another.
Starring: Valerie “Tei Shi” Teicher
DP: Alex Ashe
Sound: Jackie! Zhou
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Distributed by Kino Lorber / Dedza as part of an anthology highlighting emerging & underrepresented filmmakers, WHO WILL START ANOTHER FIRE. Released theatrically & online in 2021.
Featured in Filmmaker magazine
Now streaming on Criterion Channel
2019 / 12m / color / 1:78
A woman arrives home at the end of a regular day, but as she begins to turn in for the night, she is overcome with a sense of restlessness. Unable to fit inside her own world, she goes back out into the night. Her journey around a mostly vacant city, obscured by darkness, cascades in space and time, away from one feeling and in search of another.
Starring: Valerie “Tei Shi” Teicher
DP: Alex Ashe
Sound: Jackie! Zhou
Distributed by Kino Lorber / Dedza as part of an anthology highlighting emerging & underrepresented filmmakers, WHO WILL START ANOTHER FIRE. Released theatrically & online in 2021.
Featured in Filmmaker magazine
Now streaming on Criterion Channel
UNTITLED, IN PROCESS
2015 / 13m / color, b&w / 4 channel
Multi-channel experimental documentary on the late visionary artist and founder of The Underground Museum, Noah Davis.
Previously on view:
2016 Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
2017 California College of the Arts, SF
2015 / 13m / color, b&w / 4 channel
Multi-channel experimental documentary on the late visionary artist and founder of The Underground Museum, Noah Davis.
Previously on view:
2016 Frye Museum, Seattle, WA
2017 California College of the Arts, SF