Reels
Experimental
Pushing early video AI to hallucinate.
While I don't believe AI will replace creative people, I won't pass up an opportunity to use a new tool for free. An AI company, Runway, held a 48 hour film competition with unlimited access to their video generator tool. I felt it was the perfect opportunity to push and stretch the AI to make intentionally surreal generations, what better way to explore the experience of being laid off?
My role: creator, writer, editor
Interrogating the mundane.
For a film class focused on long takes, my group decided to simply film real life unfolding around us: a dining hall, dance marathon, the library. The longer you look, the stranger it gets. A meditation of the mundane becomes an interrogation.
My role: director, cinematographer, editor.
Sketch Comedy
Guerilla-Improv
I made that term up. It's similar to the sketches above, but with smaller budgets and no scripts! No tripods, no lights, and we were lucky to have a separate person for sound.