Before She Rode Away

With this inventive portrait, director Kirsten Johnson seeks a way to keep her 86-year-old father alive forever. Utilizing moviemaking magic and her family’s dark humor, she celebrates Dr. Dick Johnson’s last years by staging fantasies of death and beyond. Together, dad and daughter confront the great inevitability awaiting us all.

Hurricane Season: 2020

On the same day that Notre Dame erupted in flames, a string of brutal car fires in Harlem set off a neighborhood search for the culprit. With the decrepit car's serving as a spectacle for all to see and interact with, the smoke from the metal and rubber still lingers in the air.

A short film about a fatal accident at the 125th street subway station in New York City.

A storm in Destin, Florida in the summer of 2023. Part of the BOW series.

A ballet between two brothers, two ways of life, tied together by mirroring aspirations and one family.

Quaker Run Wildfire is an essay film set in the Manahoac Territory near the Shenandoah Blue Ridge. Assembled with audio/visual material from two wildfires (Fall '23 and Spring '24) near artist Daniel Bachman's home after the region experienced record breaking heat and extreme drought conditions, this first-person account explores the complex relationship between the chaos of Virginia's 17th-century settler colonialism and our modern crisis of climate breakdown.