Commericial Video

Short series of advertisements for Gnocco in the East Village (Camera Operator & Editor)

Art Loisaida Foundation - Video featuring student leadership workshops in the Campos Community Garden at the East Village (Cinematographer & Editor)

Italian Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College promotional video. (Cinematographer & Editor)

Harlem YMCA - BAI Scholarship Video (Cinematographer) — Harlem YMCA - BAI Scholarship Video *(Cinematographer)*

Cuba Dreams, a four-part documentary film series directed by Cray Novick tells the story of the U.S. and Cuba’s complex relationship (Camera Operator) — Cuba Dreams, a four-part documentary film series directed by Cray Novick tells the story of the U.S. and Cuba’s complex relationship *(Camera Operator)*

Cooking and recipe videos with Who Gives A Scrap. (Cinematographer & Editor) — Cooking and recipe videos with Who Gives A Scrap. *(Cinematographer & Editor)*

The Broadway Star Experience - Video to accompany children’s holiday album (Cinematographer) — The Broadway Star Experience - Video to accompany children’s holiday album *(Cinematographer)*

Gustiamo Open Warehouse Party highlight video featuring a book signing from Victor Hazan (Camera Operator & Editor) — Highlight video from the Gustiamo Open Warehouse Party *(Camera Operator & Editor)*

As Sweet, is a short performance documentary about intergenerational assimilation, set in a rose garden made with Marginal Gap Films. (Cinematographer) — As Sweet, is a short performance documentary about intergenerational assimilation, set in a rose garden made with Marginal Gap Films. *(Cinematographer)*

Documentary Films

Holding Back the Tide - 2023

Director of Photography

New York City was once the oyster capital of the world, now specter of this bivalve haunts the city. While volunteers restore them to the harbor, this hybrid documentary celebrates oysters as queer environmental icons. Oysters were, and are, quintessential New York. Holding Back The Tide is a city symphony of urban and aquatic landscapes that follows the precarious ebb and flow of oysters across their lifecycles. Our story is guided by initiatives that close the ecological loop all over the city and beyond.

We celebrate this bivalve as an under-sung hero cleaning up the waterways and protecting the coastline. As we connect NYC’s vitality with the teeming life below its water, we ask: how can something the oyster build toward the future in the face of looming climate disaster? How much are we willing to invest in our cities’ longevity?

Winner:
Mimesis Documentary Festival Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature
Reeling International Film Festival Jury Award for Artistic Vision
Feminist Border Arts Film Festival Jury Award for Community Action

Official selection:
DOC NYC
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
San Francisco Urban Film Festival
Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
Monadnock International Film Festival
Middlebury Film Festival

https://www.holdingbackthetidefilm.com

Altitudes - 2022

In different corners of the city, New Yorkers contend with the effects of rising sea levels and increasingly extreme storms. In the Bronx, high school students build green roofs to absorb record rainfalls. Throngs of activists take to the streets of Midtown Manhattan to demand immediate climate action. In low-lying parts of Queens, scientists invent new ways to capture and disseminate vital flood data. And in Brooklyn, toxic sludge is extracted from the depths of one of the filthiest waterways in the country for scientific analysis. Filmed during spring of 2022, Altitudes documents a city’s piecemeal response to the rapidly rising waters that surround it.

This short film was co-directed and produced at UnionDocs Collaborative Studio Program 2021-2022 where I worked with other artists to further our research practices and the documentary form

The film was selected to be part of Labocine’s October 2023 issue (art)ificial 2.0.

Tartufai (The Truffle Hunters) - 2016

My independently produced, feature length documentary about truffle hunters in northern Italy.

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Drone Terror - 2013

Drone Terror is a short documentary using poetic and direct forms of documentary to understand the Obama era drone strikes in the Middle East, using witness testimony. This film is not available for public distribution.

MUSIC VIdeos

Experiments

Super 8 film shot in Paris. All rights reserved.

A Test in Animation is a short 16mm experiment using an Oxberry animation machine and found materials. . All rights reserved. — A Test in Animation is a short 16mm experiment using an Oxberry animation machine and found materials. All rights reserved.

16mm white leader used as a medium for painting. An homage to Stan Brakhage.. All rights reserved. — 16mm white leader used as a medium for painting. An homage to Stan Brakhage. All rights reserved.