Penelope Waits

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.

The interconnected circuitry. The aggregated flora. Alternating currents of the visual field.

A song of the crab apple tree

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.

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.

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

observations of the wood people

an observation on a theme from Ethan WL

Short film on the River of time.

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

After a piece by Al Razutis