As an independent media artist I am interested in using documentary and experimental film to explore a wide range of topics.  My projects have ranged from explaining urban watershed issues to revealing my hesitations about motherhood to contemplating what it means to be ‘native’.  I see media as a great way to share ideas and expand knowledge and understanding.

‘Real’ Vermonters (in production)

‘Real’ Vermonters is a multi-media project that explores Vermont history and culture and looks at the tension between ‘progress’ and preserving a unique way of life.   ‘Real’ Vermonters will be a collection of video, audio, and written text sorted topically on an educational website and will culminate in a feature-length documentary, which ties into larger, more universal issues of globalization, anti-outsider sentiment, increased mobility and preservation of culture.  The online platform combines accessibility with preservation while the documentary connects issues and seeks to engage a larger audience by asking questions relevant to all communities.

 

I love children, but . . .

I love children, but . . . is an autobiographical documentary about my hesitations to become a mother, using my personal debate as a prism to look at contemporary parenting and changing expectations of women.

Grasping

Grasping is an abstract mediation on the feeling of losing and regaining consciousness.  This short experimental film was shot on 16mm film and edited on a Steinbeck.

Green River

Green River, a collaboration with the Mystic River Watershed Association, examines the problem of phosphorus pollution in urban watersheds.  This short educational documentary is co-produced by Summers Henderson and Gary Ashwal.  In the following clip Betsy Leonard-Wright, from Friends of Spy Pond Park, explains why an excessive goose population is problematic.