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01   INSIDE FRIENDS, OUTSIDE FRIENDS   2026 onward · in progress
In a desert. Walk two giants, one pushing the other towards an inevitable conclusion.

02   PERFORMANCE ANXIETY   2024 · 10 min
Performance Anxiety (2024) is a ten-minute animated film, premiered at Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco. Performance Anxiety turns the…

03   POLIS   2023
Polis (2023) is a permanent video installation commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission for the 49 South Van Ness municipal building. The…

04   THANK YOU, SAINT ANTHONY   2022 · 6 min
Thank You, Saint Anthony (2022) is a video and sculpture installation created during a four-month residency at Recology San Francisco. The work takes…

05   THE VIRION TRANSIT   2021 · 14 min
The Virion Transit (2021) is a 14-minute animated film that constructs the COVID-19 pandemic as a fisher kingdom: a psychological landscape where the…

06   BLUE MONSTER   2019 · 22 min
Blue Monster (2019) imagines a volcanic island in the middle of an anonymous ocean, an environment in a recurring state of cataclysm, an endless end-time.

07   PSYMAN'S ACRES   2018 · 23 min
Psyman's Acres (2018) is a 23-minute animated film set at the absolute entropic end of the universe. Orbiting a single red dwarf star, a small planet…

08   CHAPEL PERILOUS   2017 · 28 min
Session One & Two (2017) is a 28-minute film in two parts, premiered at Chapel Perilous, Bass & Reiner, San Francisco. Two characters sit at…

09   HERMIT   2016 · 24 min
Hermit (2016) is a 24-minute animated film, premiered at Vacancy, Los Angeles. An isolated figure watches an infomercial on a tablet. The program…

10   STROKE   2012 – 2015 · books and video
STROKE (2012 – 2015) is a body of digital photographs and 3D renderings, collected in three books published by Colpa Press.

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