The Portraits in US.
16mm Experimental Film | 2025
The Portraits in Us is a 16mm experimental film that explores memory as an emotional archive—how lived experiences become embedded within the body and resurface through images, sensations, and feelings. The work considers memory not as a fixed record, but as something layered, overlapping, and shared.
Created using analog film processes, the project employs portraiture, double exposure, and hand-processed imagery to reflect the instability of remembrance. Faces, gestures, and moments bleed into one another, mirroring the way personal histories coexist and connect across time.
While the film was produced during the Mothlight 16mm Workshop, the project was independently conceived and developed as a personal inquiry. The slow, tactile nature of shooting and processing film became a method for engaging with memory with care—allowing unpredictability, material traces, and emotional residues to remain visible within the image.
The Portraits in Us positions the film frame as a shared site of remembering, where individual experiences intersect to form a collective emotional record.
Time Will Tell Short Film
Experimental Film / Voice-over Installation | 10:05 | 2024
Time Will Tell is an experimental film that stages a dialogue between my past and present selves. Through voice-over, image, and sound, the work explores how memory, reflection, and lived experience shift over time—revealing identity as something continuously negotiated rather than resolved.
The film prioritizes internal conversation over linear narrative. Voice functions as a bridge between temporal selves, allowing moments of doubt, growth, and recognition to surface. By slowing the pace and centering listening, the work invites viewers into an intimate space of self-examination.
Time Will Tell was first presented as an installation at Womxnhouse Detroit 2024, where a bedroom was transformed into a reflective environment using light and material intervention. Viewers were invited to sit with the work, encountering it as a moment of pause rather than passive consumption. The film later screened at the Independent Film Festival Ypsilanti (IFFY) and was featured through a partnership with the University Musical Society, highlighting its immersive sound design and audience engagement.
Rooted in personal experience while resonating beyond the self, Time Will Tell considers how conversations with our former selves shape how we move forward.
