Every frame a decision. Every cut earned.
These films are not a highlight reel. They are a record of choices — light, structure, rhythm — made across years and genres. The standard here is the same standard held in the classroom.
Six projects. Six distinct visual problems.
Stills from produced work spanning narrative short, documentary, and experimental form. Each represents a different set of constraints — and a different set of answers.
The Threshold
Shot on 16mm over eight days with a crew of four. Every lighting setup was designed to make the doorframe a visual event — the geometry of the space dictates the emotional logic of the edit.
The film screened at three festivals and was acquired for educational distribution. What it demonstrated: that spatial constraint is not a limitation — it is the material.
Residue
A feature-length documentary structured around industrial sites in the American Midwest. The visual grammar was built from available light only — no artificial source, no reflectors. The grain is the argument.
Broadcast on public television, 2019. Cinematography and editing decisions are the basis of the advanced production course taught annually.
The same rigor. Applied to their frames.
Student work receives the same critical standard as every project shown here. See what that produces.