Selected Films

Selected editing, documentary, and experimental film work.

Just click on the image next to each project description to watch the film.

Person in a hat looking up at illuminated city buildings at dusk
Smiling man in a mustard knit beanie and black plaid jacket pointing upward with both hands indoors
Neon green skeletal line drawing of a branched organic molecule on a black background
Stylized purple and white spiral galaxy with concentric swirling rings and a glowing central core
Bearded bald man laughing into a microphone during an interview
Blurry sepia-toned crowd gathered around a large wooden cross in an urban street

Documentary Editor - STAGE Center at The University of Chicago

Unbound Selections — 10 mins

Fall, 2026 (Expected)

Role: Editor

Unbound is a feature-length documentary following the life of theoretical physicist Walter E. Massey. Beginning in 1950s Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the film spans seven decades, tracing Massey’s personal journey through the world of physics, its shifting politics, and breakthrough discoveries.

I joined STAGE midway through post-production and began by revising existing sequences for clarity and storytelling efficiency. I selected three of these scenes to highlight my work streamlining sequences to strengthen drama, levity, and narrative flow. I am also responsible for much of the archival material used in the film, working closely with our animation team to develop concepts and timing for animated sequences.

Black-and-white portrait of a man with glasses and a mustache standing beside a vintage studio microphone.

Doriane Miller Documentary Selection — 5 mins

Work in Progress, 2027 (Expected)

Role: Lead Editor

This documentary follows Dr. Doriane Miller, a primary care physician at UChicago Medicine whose work includes community outreach on Chicago’s South Side. The film broadens the traditional definition of healthcare by exploring Doriane’s use of art and storytelling to spark community conversations about the root causes of health inequalities.

As lead editor, I work closely with the director to shape a story that honors Doriane’s work while remaining accessible to an outside audience. The selected scene aims to give viewers a sense of what it is like to sit in on one of these community discussions, condensing an hour-long conversation into five minutes while preserving the range and character of the original discussion.

Woman speaking and gesturing at a meeting table with papers and a water bottle.

Other Documentary Work

Poser — 10 mins

2025

Role: Director and Editor

Poser documents my attempt to learn how to skateboard, and the performativity that comes with trying—and failing—to learn a new skill in your twenties. The film considers the camera itself as a protective barrier, which filters my own desires and embarrassments.

Originally produced as the final project for a documentary production course, Poser tells a complete story over its ten-minute runtime. Much of its comedic tone took shape in the edit, where I refined the pacing and timing of individual beats while also leaning into the film’s deliberately rough, student-documentary aesthetic.

Pedestrian in a yellow beanie crossing a downtown city street at a crosswalk

Experimental Projects

Zapruder Film — 4 mins

2026

Role: Director and Editor

This project started as a film class assignment where we had to re-film something projected, in the vein of Ken Jacobs’ Tom Tom The Piper’s Son. As it happened, a movie theater I volunteered at was doing a 35mm screening of Pier Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew and I was able to smuggle in an old camcorder to capture the film. Due to the camcorder’s default framerate settings, the image from the screen was captured with intense flicker. That and the shakiness created by my own hands left the footage with an uncanny, home movie kind of look.

In the edit, I found that the crucifixion sequence was particularly unnerving, and reminded me much of Zapruder’s film of the Kennedy assassination. I chose to cut down the sequence, removing the bulk of character dialogue and reaction shots, leaving the chaos of the crowds swarming around Pasolini’s Jerusalem. The resulting film imagines an impossible artifact; as if a time traveler went back to capture the crucifixion on Super-8.

White Gothic lettering reading “Zaprudder Film” on a black background

Posing — 4 mins

2025

Role: Animator and Editor

Created for a performance capture class, this experiment uses pose data from an eight-second video of my friend Raymond falling off a skateboard. I built a live animation tool in Pygame that allowed me to manipulate the captured figure through combinations of color, scale, rendering, and line effects, generating a collection of animated “shots” from the same movement.

While editing, I became interested in the threshold between what is and isn’t recognizably human, breaking the skeletal figure apart into increasingly abstract forms. The resulting shapes reminded me of the expanding forms I would hallucinate during childhood episodes of sleep paralysis, which pushed the piece in a darker direction and informed my use of Henry Cowell’s The Banshee.

The word “Posing” displayed in white text with red and blue chromatic effects on a black background.

Greenspaces — 3 mins

2026

Role: Co-Director and Editor

Created for a documentary production class, this piece began with an assignment to find a liminal space and construct a meditative film within it. In this case, my partner David Hall and I found an abandoned storage room in the University of Chicago’s Ida Noyes Hall. Because the assignment prohibited recording production sound, the entire soundscape was constructed in post using material from Freesound and the BBC Sound Effects archive.

A collection of whale recordings became the foundation of the film’s strange, almost musical soundscape. Against the unease caused by the room’s liminality, the final image—a vine sprouting among the discarded objects—offers a small suggestion of life within an otherwise abandoned space.

Black title card with centered white text reading “GREEN SPACES.”