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I am a filmmaker, designer, and writer currently based in New Haven, Connecticut. Through the use of documentary footage, live-action theatrical performances, and computer-generated 3D graphics, my films grapple with the atmosphere of paranoia surrounding the events of war. The work calls into question the visual conventions of investigation that overlook the subjectivities of those under occupation and cast military conflict as an insoluble puzzle.

I have taught studios, seminars, and workshops at the Department of Architecture at Cornell AAP, the Department of Art, Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Yale School of Art where I am currently Lecturer. While at Yale School of Art, I also served as the Assistant Dean for Research and Public Projects from 2017–2019. As Assistant Dean, I developed Critical Practice as an emerging area of study, while also organizing new initiatives, workshops, and programs as they related to all school, university, and broader cooperations, nationally and internationally.

In summer 2024, my latest film, Abjectly Yours—an restaging of a Marx Brothers vaudeville routine as an allegory for spectatorship, surveillance, and the weaponized gaze—was installed at the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt, Germany.