works in progress
works in progress
Welcome to the "in progress" section of my website. I have a lot of fun ideas that are sort of there, that I'm working on or that I just want to put somewhere. I will try my best to update this whenever I remember, but I would like this space to be experimental - so we will see how long this even lasts.Never Sleep
Short film in pre-productionGenre: Drama • Sub-genre(s): Fantasy, magical surrealism • Themes: Grief, loss, dreams, familial duty, tradition
Logline: Following the sudden death of their father, a restless teen in the midst of a supernatural self-discovery bonds with their estranged aunt over their fraught relationships with death, loss and familial responsibility.
“In His Image” is an ongoing visual exploration of my relationship with grief. I chose one iconic image of my father as the basis for this iteration of the project. I recreated the photo, originally taken circa 1975, and created a digital art piece with the photos of my father and I.
After my father’s passing, I was able to feel connected to him through photos taken throughout his life. I revisited pictures that I had taken of him and re-edited them. I have a special relationship to images of him because it wasn’t until after he passed that I was able to capture much of his stoicism and wisdom in images I’d taken years ago. His friends sent me photos from their youth that I had never seen before, and I was moved by the striking resemblance between my father and I.
This project is called “In His Image” because of the way that memory animates images. He is alive in many elsewheres, one of which is in these images.