Demo Reel (2025)
true or real (2024)
A 22-year old filmmaker layers her childhood self-tape of a “mystery show” in her childhood home with recent still footage, revealing the bittersweet journey of loss, growth, and the complex dynamics of familial relations.
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certainty (2024)
Two lovers discuss their blooming affection for each other amidst imagery and stories from their travels in Arizona.
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Calibrating (2023)
A partial re-enactment of scenes from Valie Export’s Syntagma (1983), this film follows the reconstruction and reproduction of bodies and forms, exploring the fluidity of their corporeal and conceptual representations.
Art Without Boundaries (2023)
This film features Philly-based artists Shwarga Bhattacharjee, Chaska Sofia, and Matthew Raguhauth and the link between their backgrounds as immigrants/1st gen Americans and their creative practices. We aim to show how their upbringings have influenced their pursuit of the arts as well as how their art has contributed a unique and essential lens to the art world.
Lying Still (2023)
This short narrative experimental film was filmed and edited by me, Ems Myers, and Hunter Logan. I also act alongside Margaret Feng, who plays the mortician. This film hopes to convey the unknowability of a person; someone’s perception of themselves never truly aligns with others’ outside perceptions of them. In death, the truth of a person is lost because all that’s left are the projections of other people onto the one that’s passed. How do we rediscover this truth? If we study photographs of the person will we find it there?
This film won the Best Character Study Award and the Audience Award at the annual Tri-College Film Festival in 2023.
A Photograph (2023)
As a guideline for my class assignment, I chose to work with a poem recommended to me by a friend called “A photograph” by James Schuyler. This film is bred from a desire and struggle to understand this poem from a narrative and visual standpoint. I aimed to engage photography and stills together with film, and at the time, I was working for several hours a day on developing film photography prints. I wanted to explore this intricate and at times frustrating process in the midst of conceptualizing the poem. I played around with a personal archive–my own film photos I took within the past year– and merged it with moments of performance while thinking about the poem in my apartment. In the end, the film became my interpretation of the poem while embodying both an embrace and distortion of memories.
Nomad (2022)
This documentary short was filmed, directed and edited by me, Reesha Gandhi, and Faryal Khan. Synopsis: Nomad (@nomad_face) is an anonymous artist in Germantown, Philadelphia, whose artwork has been stirring up important conversations in his neighborhood. Follow along on his journey as his art becomes more widespread and get to know more about the community with Matthew George (founder of ilovethyhood) and Rasheed Ajamu (@phreedomjawn).
This film won the First Choice Documentary Award at the Film Crash Film Festival in Los Angeles, where it was screened. The film also won the Jury Award and Audience Award at the annual Tri-College Film Festival (Haverford, Bryn Mawr, Swarthmore). It was also chosen to be the prescreener for the opening film of the Philly Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF),
Silent and Loud (2021)
This short film was directed, filmed, and edited by myself and my collaborator Reesha Gandhi in our freshman year of college as part of the final project for our Intro Film Production course led by Professor Vicky Funari. The focus of our short film “Silent and Loud” is to show some of the struggles that people with Social Anxiety may face in their daily lives. We interviewed three college students, Elliot Montaño, Lillian Leibovich, and Nada Aly, and asked them a series of questions about their experiences with social anxiety. We chose to portray some of those experiences through filming scenes with an actor to convey how Social Anxiety can manifest in daily life in ways that can be hidden or misconstrued by outsiders.
“they watch” sense story (2022)
Footage by Jalen Martin and edited by me in my junior year. The assignment for this video (from our Advanced Documentary Film Production course led by Professor Vicky Funari) was to piece together a 1-3 min video/story from the footage captured by your classmate.
A Day at the Coffee Bar (2022)
All footage was recorded inside of the Coffee Bar, a coffee shop in the Ardmore, PA area, with the consent (and enthusiasm) of the cafe workers, Alejandro and Jaife. Nothing is scripted, everyone is acting naturally. This video is an extension of a 1 minute piece I submitted for my Advanced Documentary Filmmaking Class for an assignment aiming to following someone's movement.
Anticipation - silent film (2020)
This silent film was my final project for my Silent Cinema course during my freshman year first semester. The film incorporates many elements embodied by some early silent films and movements like the Dada art movement.