Film

Filmmaking

Filming began for me as utility— a flexible side hustle to support my own artist pursuits. I began apprenticing with Ross Karre Documentation in 2011, learning to film and edit music, dance and performance. I eventually took over one of his clients Baryshnikov Arts Center, and slowly became a permanent fixture there. Filming performances and residencies for nearly a decade for 100+ artists led to a natural doorway into nonfiction storytelling. As a cinematographer and documentary artist, I bring my sensitivity as a performer into the room; in thinking about space, time and visceral dimension. I was mentored throughout the years by life + art partner Colin Nusbaum, a documentary film editor and brilliant cinematographer who showed me how to see liveness in material, how to frame and edit, how to story tell with compassion.

Everything You Have Is Yours grew out of a desire for these skills to find a meaningful political container by archiving the work of close friend and longtime collaborator Hadar Ahuvia. It is also a love letter to the vibrant ecosystem of dance that is rhizomatic in nature. The film was nurtured and brought to fruition through collaboration with producer Brighid Greene.

Read more in Documentary Magazine and The Forward.

Dance Cinematography & Videography

As a time based artist myself, I am always looking to translate the space-time intentions of the artist I am documenting through my lens. When working in observational settings I bring a collaborative ethic and consent practices into the room. Clients have included Baryshnikov Arts Center, Time Square Arts , Composers Now, The Cunningham Trust, Art Matters Foundation, Franklin Street Works, and countless independent choreographers in New York City. During the pandemic I created several screen dance collaborations with artists at Baryshnikov Arts Center including: Kyle Marshall (STELLAR), River L. Ramirez (GhostFolk), Holland Andrews (Museum of Calm) and The Merce Cunningham Trust (In Conversation With Merce) featuring Cunningham’s 1972 Landrover performed by Chalvar Montiero and Jacquelin Harris in conversation with work by Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring. The following portfolio samples are some of the artists I have been honored to witness:

zavé martohardjono ay.eye.ay (2021)
believe what they say that they intend to destroy us and fall back into your mind’s eye

Jeffrey Gibson She Never Dances Alone (2020)

Documentation of Jeffrey Gibson’s multiscreen work in Times Square, as well as interviews with Gibson and his collaborators for a live event.

Dorothée Munyaneza Artist Profile (2017)

Resident artist Dorothée Munyaneza in conversation at BAC.

A walk in the Garden: Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi (2016)

Composers Now Creative Residents Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi discuss their collaborative work at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in the fall of 2016.

North Shore (2015)

Documentation of live performance by Carey Denniston and Ander Mikalson. Performed by Nicole Ohr and Ryan Rockmore on August 14, 2015 at Moiety in Brooklyn, NY.