ABOUT

Every time I commute across my home state, crossing the vast expanse of farmland and wilderness, an undeniable sensitivity seizes me, and the hazy tree lines, the rugged antique dealers, the fields of grass opened up to the sky, and the sun peeking over a verdant horizon all remind me why I pursue film as a conduit for my voice. I cannot help but to watch the world through a lens, and to share that image of life with others through film.

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Film, as an immersive, fully-flexible marriage of image and sound, is like a room I am drawn back to in a recurring dream – the only place where I can conjure and examine a fragment array of my own reflections, asking, sometimes interrogating, sometimes cajoling – all in an attempt to unravel a bit more of who I am. It is a ballet of negotiation between cliché and incomprehension, and each attempt is an experimentation of poetry – juxtaposition – bringing together elements of story, character, image, and word, to hope that a few little epiphanies of both the personal identity and the broader human condition might be wrung from it. 

For a long time, I struggled to find my unique voice, to identify the story I wanted to tell, to convince myself that my stories were worth telling. That beginning of my film studies, though, was the beginning of finding my own voice – this was the artistic medium through which I could share my struggles and my empathy with others, to feel distinctly a part of something larger than myself. The creative positivity and artistic passion of the environment I found in filmmaking sparked my passion for pursuing the visual storytelling medium and for dedicating my creativity, sensitivity, and skill for compositional synthesis to the artistic form that will tell the much-needed stories of young filmmakers today, including my own – stories of loving, of fighting anxiety and loneliness, of looking inward, of embracing the physical space one takes up as an individual with a distinct place in the world.