A nature documentary

ACT I: elements of decomposition (2025)

A nature documentary: elements of decomposition is a short film that explores the potential of remaking worlds from what has been discarded. Transforming trash into sculptural objects, I capture these objects in video that skews context, perspective, and scale so that the viewer questions where and what they are seeing, highlighting the ever-shifting in-betweenness of the objects-as-landscapes. Reenvisioning the poetic landscapes of experimental filmmakers like Peter Hutton, James Benning, and Godfrey Reggio through techniques inspired by the gutter art and genderqueer performance of Stephen Varble, I play with perspective, lighting, and material, to capture uncanny landscapes fabricated from disposable materials. In these landscapes, we can linger in the in-betweenness, in which everything-becomes-everything. The scenes are woven together with poetic narrative. What results is a queer and trans landscape film that meditates on becoming and transformation.