materials, language, memory, and time
I am a Toronto-based filmmaker working across stop-motion animation, analogue film, and material-driven processes. My practice engages tactile methods including fermented and distressed 16mm film, physically printed and scanned text, and macro photography.
My 2011 short film, Little Theatres: Homage to the Mineral of Cabbage, screened internationally, including at TIFF and the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
My latest short film, Invisible Harvests, took 10 years to make, as it involved fermenting food and film, and working with many different media. It is a poetry film about saudade, a beautiful longing for what is absent or lost. It is presented in both English and French versions, with hand-animated text integrated in each language. The film will screen in the Official Short Films Competition at Annecy International Animation Film Festival in June 2026.
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I’ve been collecting word histories – especially those that once described a gesture, relation, or lived experience, and over time have settled into abstraction. I’m interested in this drift: how language moves away from embodied experience into stable concepts, and how easily we forget these more physical roots. This research is currently at the heart of my next film, The Etymology of Attention.