Short Films

I began creating short films as a lark with my dear friend and collaborator, Harold Sims. He was in film school and asked me if he could tag along at my shoots and take video footage. I became completely enamored with working with Harold, and with what film could add to my way of making meaning.

We began collaborating on films and topics and that blossomed into the production of a short film about my dance practice and a film about loneliness.

When the pandemic struck, Harold and I shifted our film in to an opus about what I call “the muddy middle” of marriage, and how one can be more lonely inside a relationship than as a single person. We intended it to be a scripted film, but it turns out that we are terrible actors, and so we decided to explore the concept through dance and poetry instead. I think the results were magical.

We continue to make short films as a way to better express something ineffable, using images, music, and movement over words and stories.

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