DIRECTOR & CINEMATOGRAPHY REEL (2019)
Link to reel (3min)
My reel includes clips from two important documentary projects: A Winter with Delivery Workers and Ruth Marten: A Phantasmagoric Traveler along with highlights from other fiction films.
In 2018, I collaborated with the Chinese filmmaker Jing Wang and the BPP—Biking Public Project —to document the lives of a group of delivery workers in Manhattan struggling under the new laws that prohibit the use of electric bicycles. This documentary, A Winter with Delivery Workers, was recently shown at the Museum of the City of New York and featured in The New York Times’s article’s “Bicycle Diaries: Two Centuries of New York History.”
A Phantasmagoric Traveler is a documentary about the New York-based visual artist Ruth Marten. Marten’s artistic career began in the 1970s when she rose to prominence in New York City’s then underground tattoo community.
Among my fiction shorts are Ophelia, Second Light and Aurora's Requiem, which I produced, directed, and edited between 2012 and 2016.
My interest in cinematography has been transformed over the years by fine-tuning my vision as a director. I have a great admiration for the psychological portrayals in Sacha Vierny’s work with Alain Resnais, as well as Mark Pin Bin’s naturalism for Hou Hsiao-hsien’s films, among others. In 2013, I took a class, ‘Lighting Techniques for HD’, at the School of Visual Arts, where we re-created particular scenes from films and learned the basics of painting with light and bringing mood into a scene. This experience of hands-on process was critical for my film, Ophelia, which was carefully storyboarded using references from photography and classical painting.
