As a passionate scholar-practitioner and moving image archivist, my work is strategically collaborative and interdisciplinary. 

As a filmmaker and teacher, I specialize in scriptwriting, cinematography, and editing, with expertise in small gauge experimental and short form narrative techniques. My scholarly interests combine taste politics, materialism, format and platform studies, cinephilia, and media exhibition practices, and my dissertation, "Scratching the Surface: Home Video and the Politics of Film Restoration," explores the technologies, politics, and aesthetics of moving image restoration on home video cultures and film canon formations.

I have also worked as a moving image archivist at the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive (IULMIA) for eight years, specializing in digital and celluloid projection, film inspection, collection processing and accessibility, and community engagement. My mission was to help bridge the enduring gaps between the archival field and academia and to foster meaningful connection with student and community groups through hands on instructional and educational workshops and presentations. 

My most recent film, Sol Folium (2025), explores the impressionistic abilities of the Bolex H16 to translate and express the grace of the fall season into a dizzying mosaic of movement, emotion, color, and memory. Shot entirely in-camera on a 100' roll of Kodak's 16mm Ektachrome, the film was a self-conscious challenge to slow down, exist in the present, and appreciate the simple beauty of our natural world. The film had its Indiana premiere at the Indiana University Cinema in February on a double bill with Win Wenders’ Oscar-nominated film, Perfect Days (2023), and will screen next at the Odds & Ends Film Festival at the Vinegar Hill Theatre in Charlottesville, VA on February 20th, 2026.

I am also in post-production on a commissioned video essay using archival footage from the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive's vast educational film collection that serves as a visual companion to Devotional Cinema, a philosophical monograph by prominent experimental filmmaker, Nathaniel Dorsky.