Who am I?

First and foremost, I am a video editor. It’s the work I love more than anything else in the world. Growing up in Richmond VA, I was a voracious movie nerd. The more I watched, the more I started to see past just what was on screen, but how it was put together—how the length and order of shots created the mood and pace of a film, how a perfectly-timed cut or fade could take my breath away, how filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and William Greaves (and their editors) used simple video effects to communicate concepts impossible to put into words. I knew I had to give it a shot, so I began to teach myself how to edit.

In my time at Northwestern I edited a number of student films and experimented with blending video with theatre. I’m particularly proud of my multimedia adaptation of Bergman’s 1966 masterpiece, Persona. Since graduating I have taken on several freelance video projects freelance while also serving as the A/V Technical Director at the First United Methodist Church of Evanston. In this position I shot and edited over 60 hour-long “Virtual Worship” videos, and am currently running weekly live-streamed services.

I aim for perfection across all of my video work, but I also believe in the value and necessity of imperfection. That’s why I love glitch art—by its very nature a glitch video is broken, imperfect, and unpredictable, and yet these flaws make possible a kind of ethereal beauty that can’t be replicated by conventional means. I never know quite what I’m going to get until the glitches have finished “baking,” and the results are always beyond what I could imagine. Though my own work has so far been confined to digital, I plan to expand into analog glitch art in the future. The workroom of my dreams would be filled with all kinds of equipment spanning across many decades of formats and hardware. Hopefully I’ll manage to keep it from getting too cluttered.

I’ve got a lot of passions outside of my work: writing, acting, adaptation, international film history, intersectional media studies, LGBT history and activism, and whatever piece of media I happen to be fixated on right now. I recently wrote a sci-fi/horror pilot that I’ve been using as the basis for a homebrew TTRPG. I like cooking, biking, playing video games (my favorite is Pathologic 2) and caring for my friends. If you’d like to meet me, I’d love to meet you! Please feel free to reach out via my contact page.