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Semi-precious
2024, 15 min, 16mm to digital, 5.1/stereo 

Semi-precious is a diffracted portrait of my mother, a retired holistic practitioner framed through her crystals, supplements, jewelry, healing instruments, and household adornments. Handwritten labels populate the exteriors of these objects to recall their emotional or spiritual use and are a vital remedy to her memory loss.

 

Geologic and mortal time become enmeshed through: weathered landscapes, wrinkled hands, vibrating exercise machines, sound representations of planets, resonant quartz crystals in clock faces, and the profile of the oldest rock identified, the moon.

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Screenings
2025 DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, BC
2025 Milwaukee Underground Film Festival, Milwaukee, WI
2025 Cosmic Rays Film Festival, Chapel Hill, NC
2025 e-flux Film Award presents: Special Screenings, eflux screening room, Brooklyn, NY
2024 Lightmatter Film Festival, Holmes Auditorium, Alfred, NY, USA
2024 Antimatter [Media Art] Festival, Deluge Contemporary, Victoria, BC, CA

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