Below are excerpts from my own “sound-films,” experimental non-fiction small-gauge films that approach filmmaking from a sound-first perspective and workflow. Many of them are explicitly about or around the subject of sound and sound-making itself. For excerpts of my sound work in collaboration with other filmmakers, visit the SOUND DESIGN page.
A Stone Tape film inspired by the yellow fever epidemic in 19th century New Orleans, using analog camera techniques and contact microphones to excavate the material traces of trauma.
A macro-acoustic study of three similar but distinct microcultures: the Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn Bridge and Williamsburg Bridge.
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A film about two roadside ghost towns in South Dakota. Camera and microphone become archaeological tools uncovering the material traces of living history.
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Alchemic hands transform natural materials into living, breathing instruments. A film about the Patagonian luthier Raúl Orlando Pérez.
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Loosely translated as "foreigner,” is the name given to thousands of Vietnamese refugees and their children who have journeyed “home."
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An in-camera exquisite corpse film shot between the Mojave Desert and Brooklyn's Industry City.
A journey above and below the Gowanus Canal with a homemade hydrophone and my last roll of super-8mm Kodachrome.
Co-Directed with Jen Heuson. An ethnographic portrait of migrant farm workers in Immokalee, FL.
The name of an abandoned train station in Lima; the origin of a three-long journey by rail and foot to encounter the ghosts of colonial relics.
An outside-in experimental film riding Sri Lankan colonial railways.