16mm magic

My artistic practice is rooted in destruction as a method of creation. I work directly on 16mm film—scratching, inking, perforating, cutting, and intervening by hand. I work both cameraless and with my own footage, often combining experimental 16mm cinematography with direct physical manipulation of the film strip. Through pressure, erasure, and repetition, memory, emotion, and identity emerge from the material itself.

The film strip becomes a physical record of survival. Each mark is intentional, each gesture leaving a trace. The mark is central to my practice: every intervention is made with my hands, and breaking the film is how creation begins. Destruction is not a refusal but a generative act—one that creates space, movement, and relief. Meaning is built through material contact, rhythm, and interruption rather than linear plot.

Narrative in my work forms through flicker, looping, and the persistence of marks, allowing emotion to guide structure. Language is inseparable from this process. I scratch words directly into the film—misspelled, reversed, multilingual—so text exists not as explanation but as image, texture, and action. Words carry intimacy, threat, humor, and contradiction at the same time. Like memory and desire, language fractures, repeats, and transforms.

My films—including Evil Evol Love; Red; Erase Me; and Play Me—explore survival, disappearance, fractured identity, and intimacy. While my practice is primarily handmade and cameraless, I also work through cinematography, treating the film strip as another surface to disrupt, erase, and rework. These concerns extend into expanded cinema and installation, where proximity, duration, and attention are shaped through screens, projections, and physical barriers. Presentation is not neutral; it is part of the narrative architecture.

Across film, printmaking, painting, sound, and installation, my practice remains grounded in hands-on process. I believe material engagement is a form of thinking. By working slowly and physically, I process experience, hold emotion, and construct meaning through touch, rhythm, and mark-making.