Biography

I have been working in documentary and video art since the early aughts. In 2006, I released a long-form film, LA CURACIÓN, about the philosophical and poetic dimensions of health and healing, set in the Northern Andes. In this period I worked on collaborative media projects that facilitated a number of experiments with camera technologies, 3D scanning, and various forms of analog and digital image manipulation. My cinematography work was shown at The Cannes Film Festival, South by Southwest, and The Whitney Biennial. I co-founded a production company in Chicago called “Mass Ornament Films”, which premiered the film THEY by Anahita Ghazvinizadeh at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. In 2018, I was selected as an Independent Film Projects documentary fellow, and have resided at the Alice Kaplan Institute at NU, the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Hungary, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. That year I was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces” of independent cinema. Shortly thereafter, I opened “Formidable Entities” with Hadley Austin to emphasize artistic nonfiction work. In 2020, my first feature, A MACHINE TO LIVE IN (about utopian architecture in Brazil), premiered. My latest cinematography work has been DEMON MINERAL (2023), an award-winning documentary about the baleful legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation.

I currently reside in Chicago, USA.