"sometimes i feel like i'm unraveling" is my first year film at the experimental animation program at CalArts. The film explores my experience with Chronic Lyme disease and how it effects the very makeup of your being. The film is mixed media and utilizes handdrawn animation, digital animation, stratacut, under the camera stop motion, and more. It has been screened at MicroBEAF Festival, Student World Impact Film Festival (Finalist for Best Short Short Award), Lift-Off Global Network Filmmaker Sessions, Boundless Film Festival, Mosaic World Film Festival, and the Bizarroland Film Festival (finalist for Ear Worm Award).
"Little" - 2022
This film is fully printed using the cyanotype method, a laborious process in which each frame is drawn, turned into a negative, printed using the cyanotype process, photographed, and finally sequenced. "Little" was created as I was in a depressed state due to my chronic illness and expresses how what often kept me going at the time was the little joys in life.
"rotten" - 2022
"rotten," a film about the impermanence of life and coming to terms with my own mortality, was created as a part of the "i can't spare another moment" 48-hour film anthology. It is mostly digitally animated with stop-motion animation of bones overlaid on top.
"Starstruck" - 2022
This film was traditionally animated and created in 48 hours as a part of the 48-hour Stars Anthology. The majority of the film is hand-drawn and the remaining shots were created by collaging illustrations of stars as well as images of stars generated by an AI.
"The Temple" - 2021
"The Temple" is a digitally animated film that I created as a challenge to myself. It was my first 48-hour film and its goal was to figure out how to work within a short period of time. The film explores themes of religion and identity.
"Primordial" - 2021
"Primordial" is a mixed-media film about my relationship with my mother, especially how it has been challenged and strengthened by my journey with chronic illness. A variety of techniques are used in the film, from traditional pencil animation and paper cut-out animation to stratacut and claymation.
"Chronic" - 2021
This film acts as an animated self-portrait, even on a microscopic level at times, and focuses on my chronic illness. It is digitally animated on top of a distorted claymation background.