As a filmmaker,  I’m interested in stories that center marginalized individuals and highlight the complexity of human emotion. My work focuses on the everyday Black experience as its own essential cultural and historical archiving of tradition and community. I am committed to shedding light on the seemingly banal moments that complicate human life and the rituals in daily life that blur the line between the sacred and the mundane.

My work engages and plays with the concept of time, focusing on stories that are either nonlinear or utilize surrealist elements to undermine and undo traditional and colonized notions of time as constructed limitations. The work mines existential questions incited by the oppressive and dehumanizing structures and ethical responsibility. My work’s recurring themes of grief and loss as cyclical interlocutors and irruptors of life, connection, and self, also enact this disruption of traditional notions of time. I contrast a measured and deliberate pace with this twisting of time as a way to embrace disorientation as a method through which we make the impossible possible. My artistic perspective is informed by an Afrofuturist bent that prioritizes presence (in any given moment) as innovative in itself. This approach emphasizes hopefulness and a drive towards life that rewards stillness and patience over production.

Audiences should look for patterns and repetition to create rhythm and the use of ritual as a tool for change and a site for connection and care. The use of natural elements, water, light, wood, and fire, to mark time and guide rhythms become touchstones and metonyms for the connective and sacred power of ritual in ways that deny the invisibility of Black life.