Jefferson Everest Crawford

A short documentary about community gardening in Ridgewood, Queens one year after the COVID-19 lockdown, and the legacy behind a former boundary marker between the two colonial counties of Newtown and Bushwick named Arbitration Rock.

A short documentary about community gardening in Ridgewood, Queens one year after the COVID-19 lockdown, and the legacy behind a former boundary marker between the two colonial counties of Newtown and Bushwick named Arbitration Rock.

For hope in the face of resistance. For the 20,000 communards executed at the Paris Commune on May 28, 1871. Filmed at Bread and Puppet theater in Glover, Vermont on a spring afternoon 150 years later.

Amazon drivers in Palmdale, CA are on strike against Amazon's unfair labor practices, unsafe jobs, and low pay. NYC Teamsters show solidarity and ask for justice, now!

"It is undone business I speak of, this morning, with the sea stretching out from my feet." - Charles Olson, 'Maximus Poems'

A song of the crab apple tree

Confluence is a 4-part impressionist representation of the Merrimack River, which runs from Franklin, NH at the confluence of the Pemigewasset and Winnipesauke Rivers into the Atlantic Ocean in Newburyport, MA.

This tortoise is very sleepy. He lives at Gatorland, near Orlando, Florida.

Landscapes are permeable, impermanent. They are hallucinations of literature, manifestations of human manipulation. Like the pixel, they are degraded, rearranged, forgotten. “Eclogues” is an expression of landscape in the purest principles of digital image-making: duration, practicality, limitation. Shot in 2020 in Strafford, Vermont.

Short film on the River of time.

observations of the wood people

The objects found inside the house seemed of little historical importance - two diaries. But taken together, they form a fantastical little story… and so a filmmaker finds herself caught between fiction and memory, believing in impossibilities.

an observation on a theme from Ethan WL

on the ground observations of the 2023 WGA strike in New York City

Rose Hobart haunts the cinema.

The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts explores accessibility, memory, and experimental filmmaking as a tool for accessing the inner self. In the Fall of 2019, while traveling across the United States, I taught camera-less film workshops in which I asked participants to express their “inner self” on a strip of 16mm film. These “visual autobiographies” are a synthesis of expression and memory in an abstract form. To capture my own inner, I documented the journey on super 8 film, and drew animations of the landscapes that drifted by me during my travels. My footage is stitched together with the collected consciousness of the many people that I met in these workshops; my memories in conversation with theirs. Each person’s contribution calls to mind one of my own memories, which relates back to the collective memory of the universe.

What Else Can I Buy You With?

Two men materialized on the empty street...

"...then he saw a tree with white fruit. This sweet fruit made those who ate it happy..." Casting out along rivers of time, evoking the souls surrounding the obelisk itself, the camera traces several stories in two distinct phases...

A kinetic journey through the graphic motifs of textiles paired with figures and landscapes to explore the technological development of fabric production and consumption alongside systems of visual and spoken language. The piece investigates recurring graphic symbols and how their cross-cultural appropriation functions within a global economy.

'Home Away From Home' is a short documentary about the efforts of educators in the Solu-Khumbu Valley (Sagarmatha/Everest Region of Nepal) to create longterm systems of education for Sherpa children. Generations of Sherpa people have not had formal education. Tsedam Sherpa and others are working to change that forever.

8mm fugue...

An observation

A place is an obelisk, reaching to the sky; down again to a point in the ground. Not a solid point, but a hesitant, mysterious one (some say always shifting). Ripples of life arch out from its base in unexpected ways. The obelisk series is an informal collecting of time and place haphazardly documented by two perambulating filmmakers.