My avant-garde films intertwine metaphor and symbolic themes, through rapid context changes supported by immersive audio. Largely free from traditional narrative, these works encourage viewers to make their own connections to complete the cinematic experience.
[ Experimental Filmmaking is a genre in filmmaking that aims to challenge traditional narrative structures, visual styles, and storytelling conventions. It is characterized by a spirit of innovation, exploration, and experimentation with the medium of film. ]
Radiate (2025)
My most recent film is an avant-garde meditation on the instability of time and identity.
Awards: San Diego Movie Awards, Touchstone Independent Film Festival.
Five (2024)
An award winning symbolic film inspired by the number 5 as referred to in philosophical writings as the number that unites the four corners of the world.
Awards: Best Experimental Short at Indie Vegas Festival, Oniros Film Awards, the Couch Film Festival, and Vegas Independent Film Awards, along with numerous nominations, including Cannes World Film Festival, APEX Film Awards, Amsterdam Movie Festival.
Three
Incorporating symbolic elements and metaphor, this avant-garde short reimagines the harmony in opposites (yin & yang) for modern culture, of extremes, of harmony, unity, excess and transformation.
Awards: Best Experimental Short at the New York Arthouse Festival, IndieX, Cal Film Festival, Toronto Indie Shorts and the Stockholm Minimal Intl. Festival.
Impossible Velocity
Music video for the song, “Impossible Velocity”, by “Trees Inside Out”.
Awards: Best Music Video at the Rome Music Video AwardsVegas Independent Film Awards, and WSXA Barcelona International Awards, "Audience Choice Award" at Indie Vegas Film Festival.
Sojourn
Sojourn is a visual poem about the cycle of life (creation), death, and rebirth.
PEACH
Created with Midjourney and Runway.ML, PEACH is a visual poem where a young child enters a fantasy world through a mural.
Illusory Beauty, Pt. 1
An experimental piece on poetic narrative.