Films
1511 (Work in Progress)
Run Time: Feature Length
2024
1511 takes the form of a farewell letter to my childhood home. Family bonds and ruptures spill out as I attempt to unravel the relationship between memory and space, moving forward and reminiscing on family migrations.
Run Time: Feature Length
2024
1511 takes the form of a farewell letter to my childhood home. Family bonds and ruptures spill out as I attempt to unravel the relationship between memory and space, moving forward and reminiscing on family migrations.
Bodies 1: Milwaukee Waters
Run Time: 5:05
2022
Bodies is a series shot on 16mm that explores the magic and life of public bodies of water.
Throughout the 1800s, the Milwaukee River was used to carry sewage into Lake Michigan. The many tanneries, breweries and other industries lining the water, poured their waste into the river without any water treatment. Much work has gone into cleaning the water in the past decades and into removing dams and flow barriers to increase fish passage. Much progress has been made and the water is much cleaner and safer than it used to be. However, the Milwaukee River Basin is still considered an area of concern (AOC). The main concern is the contaminants in the riverbed sediment such as PCBs, PAHs and heavy metals. Milwaukee Waters focuses on the beauty found and restored within this area with acknowledgment of the work still to be done.
Run Time: 5:05
2022
Bodies is a series shot on 16mm that explores the magic and life of public bodies of water.
Throughout the 1800s, the Milwaukee River was used to carry sewage into Lake Michigan. The many tanneries, breweries and other industries lining the water, poured their waste into the river without any water treatment. Much work has gone into cleaning the water in the past decades and into removing dams and flow barriers to increase fish passage. Much progress has been made and the water is much cleaner and safer than it used to be. However, the Milwaukee River Basin is still considered an area of concern (AOC). The main concern is the contaminants in the riverbed sediment such as PCBs, PAHs and heavy metals. Milwaukee Waters focuses on the beauty found and restored within this area with acknowledgment of the work still to be done.
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Screenings:
Revolutions Per Minute Festival (RPM), Boston MA, 2023 Material Agency, Curated by MassArt X SoWa Gallery, Boston, MA, May-July 2022 Milwaukee Short Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI, 2022 [Best Cinematography Award] |
Cuentos Para Niños #2
Run Time: 4:00
2019
An imagined origin story following El Coco; european colonizers' most powerful weapon. Images were created on 16mm film through alternative techniques.
Run Time: 4:00
2019
An imagined origin story following El Coco; european colonizers' most powerful weapon. Images were created on 16mm film through alternative techniques.
Screenings:
16mm AgX Showcase at Emerson, Boston MA, March 2024
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 2020
Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Kansas City, MO, 2020
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI, 2020
The lift-Off Sessions, Online, 2020
Superstitions, Curated by LUNA (Latinas Unidas en Las Artes), Milwaukee, WI, 2019
16mm AgX Showcase at Emerson, Boston MA, March 2024
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 2020
Kansas City Underground Film Festival, Kansas City, MO, 2020
Wisconsin Film Festival, Madison, WI, 2020
The lift-Off Sessions, Online, 2020
Superstitions, Curated by LUNA (Latinas Unidas en Las Artes), Milwaukee, WI, 2019
Inundada
Run Time: 16:08
2018
Inundada is a retelling and reclamation of the Latinx folk tale of La Llorona. It explores different versions of her story that were passed on to the maker through the tradition of oral story-telling. It approaches the subjects of intergenerational pain, guilt and shame as the products of a colonial-patriarchal environment on the human body.
Run Time: 16:08
2018
Inundada is a retelling and reclamation of the Latinx folk tale of La Llorona. It explores different versions of her story that were passed on to the maker through the tradition of oral story-telling. It approaches the subjects of intergenerational pain, guilt and shame as the products of a colonial-patriarchal environment on the human body.
Screenings:
Motivate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA, 2024
Liminal Existences and Migrant Resistances Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2021
That One Film Festival, Muncie, IN, 2020
Movement, Memoirs, Myths, Tampa, FL, 2020
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO, 2020
Another eXperiment by Women Film Festival, New York City, NY, 2019
FemFest Film & Video Showcase, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
UWM MFA Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
Motivate Underground Film Festival, Harrisburg, PA, 2024
Liminal Existences and Migrant Resistances Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2021
That One Film Festival, Muncie, IN, 2020
Movement, Memoirs, Myths, Tampa, FL, 2020
Mimesis Documentary Festival, Boulder, CO, 2020
Another eXperiment by Women Film Festival, New York City, NY, 2019
FemFest Film & Video Showcase, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
UWM MFA Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI, 2019
Coastlands
Run Time: 11:39
2018
A meditative journey on the borderlands of rigid dry land and the Ocean as a place that fosters cultural, sexual and spiritual fluidity.
Run Time: 11:39
2018
A meditative journey on the borderlands of rigid dry land and the Ocean as a place that fosters cultural, sexual and spiritual fluidity.
Screenings:
Hazel Eye Film Festival, Online, 2018
UWM MFA Screening, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Hazel Eye Film Festival, Online, 2018
UWM MFA Screening, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Cuentos Para Niños #1
Run Time: 3:21
2018
La Llorona transcends from the world of the living to that of infinite waters. Images were created on 16mm film through alternative techniques.
Run Time: 3:21
2018
La Llorona transcends from the world of the living to that of infinite waters. Images were created on 16mm film through alternative techniques.
Screenings:
SPE Media Festival, Online, 2021
Gaze Animation Screening Series lV, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland, 2018
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 2018
Milwaukee Short Film Festival, Milwaukee WI, 2018
Orlando Edge Film Festival, Orlando, FL, 2018
Hazel Eye Film Festival, Online, 2018
SPE Media Festival, Online, 2021
Gaze Animation Screening Series lV, San Francisco, CA, 2019
Alchemy Film Festival, Hawick, Scotland, 2018
Engauge Experimental Film Festival, Seattle, WA, 2018
Milwaukee Short Film Festival, Milwaukee WI, 2018
Orlando Edge Film Festival, Orlando, FL, 2018
Hazel Eye Film Festival, Online, 2018
Spazi Indeterminabili
Run Time: 10:45
2017
Spazi Indeterminabili is an exploration of spatial and social orientations within national borders, and social structures. It follows personal memories and portraits of space and spacelessness through the cities of Miami and Milwaukee. It holds onto the ideas found in Sarah Ahmed's "Queer phenomenology" that call onto the concept of disorientation as a radical form of resisting and being in the world.
Run Time: 10:45
2017
Spazi Indeterminabili is an exploration of spatial and social orientations within national borders, and social structures. It follows personal memories and portraits of space and spacelessness through the cities of Miami and Milwaukee. It holds onto the ideas found in Sarah Ahmed's "Queer phenomenology" that call onto the concept of disorientation as a radical form of resisting and being in the world.
Screenings:
Cinema Systers Film Festival, Paducah, KY, 2024
Gaze Animation Screening Series lV, San Francisco, CA, 2019
That One Film Festival, Muncie, IN, 2018
Hazel Eye Film Festival, Online, 2018
Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst, MA, 2018
Midwest Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Walker’s Point Center of the Arts Community Frames Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Cinema Systers Film Festival, Paducah, KY, 2024
Gaze Animation Screening Series lV, San Francisco, CA, 2019
That One Film Festival, Muncie, IN, 2018
Hazel Eye Film Festival, Online, 2018
Milwaukee LGBT Film/Video Festival, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Augusta Savage Gallery, Amherst, MA, 2018
Midwest Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, Milwaukee, WI, 2018
Walker’s Point Center of the Arts Community Frames Exhibition, Milwaukee, WI, 2018