My Projects

By cutting together 22 of his films, this video essay explores the intertextuality between Gérard Depardieu's films and how they have contributed to his status as a symbol of French identity. I completed this film as my thesis project for my Master's degree at the University of South Carolina - Columbia.

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Official Selection at Orlando Film Festival 2022

Semi-Finalist at Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival 2022

Created by splicing together audio and visuals in a supercut-esque style, this video essay explores tropes within desert epic films (Lawrence of Arabia, The Mummy, Indiana Jones, etc.) and how they relate to Orientalist ideas about the Middle East. 

 

Selected for Theory & Practice of the Video-Essay: An International Conference on Videographic Criticism at the University of Massachusetts Amherst Sept. 2022

 

Official Selection at the Orlando Film Festival 2023

Official Selection at CineWorld Film Festival 2023

Funded by the Magellan Scholar Research Grant, Professor Susan Felleman and I created this video essay on how women artists are portrayed in film (as ridiculous, dangerous, abject, etc.).

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Published in [in]Transition 9.2 (2022)

 

Voted one of the best video essays of 2022 by the British Film Institute