2020–presentABC TriptychThree interlinked feature films that can be viewed separately, together, or as a spatial cinema installation.FILM A · IN PROGRESS
Abecedarian ↗
A city, an impossible task, and a pattern of returns. The first feature of the triptych.
FILM B · IN PROGRESS
by the time I see you in the morning ↗
Translation, synchronicity, absence, and parallel lives moving through New Orleans.
FILM C · IN DEVELOPMENT
Cantor
The third feature of the ABC Triptych.
2015LeavesA late-autumn Majaks collaboration between music, movement, painting, and an environment made from fallen leaves.
2866 Magazine Street · 11 am–6 pm daily
2014–2018St. Mary Majak’sAn artist-run cine-club and performance space: twenty-one original plays and more than two hundred screenings.Its zines and screening histories form an archive of a community teaching itself how to look.
2017–presentTwo Weeks From TomorrowIn a sparse rehearsal room, a group of amateur actors attempts to stage a new version of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull.Their collective memory-in-the-making is summoned through a shared astral experience, woven from the waking and dreamed moments lived by the troupe in their effort to realize the production. Foregoing direct engagement with the text, the troupe attempts to arrive at an expression of the play emerging from their own ideas. As opening night looms, the shape of the finished work becomes increasingly unknown.
2025Tino’s PilgrimageA photo-text record of Tino’s 2,080-mile, 108-day journey on foot. Moving through the country at the speed of a person carrying everything he needed, he slept outdoors and used digital technology only for maps.
initiated 2022Cinema SanctuaryA repertory film series devoted to spiritual experience, existential crisis, and encounters with the sacred.A gathering place for films otherwise unseen in New Orleans.
2017–2021Beaubourg SchoolA tuition-free school for shared inquiry, interdisciplinary study, and creative action.Teachers were paid, and classes were free. Developed with David Williams through Tulane’s Mellon Program, the school brought artists, educators, and neighbors together to exchange knowledge.
2019EscapadeA performance collaboration directed and choreographed by Kelly Bond.“I want to offer and mingle my joy with the joy of that person, my pain with the pain of that person, my struggle with the struggle of that person. I want us to share the sensations, tastes, smells, sounds of the experience, because these are the things that life is made of.”
2018FrankensteinAn adaptation developed across a year in a working sculpture foundry with four performers, a composer, and the tools and processes of the studio.
2023Egmonta distilled performance of Goethe’s five-act 1787 tragedy Egmont to accompany Beethoven’s 1810 Egmont, Op. 84 incidental music. Produced by the Lousiana Philharmonic Orchestra.2021
ConiunctioThe alchemy of one year.
Video shot on an Android Galaxy phone in Lower 9th Ward · Frisco · Miami · Chatham · Moab · Butte · Covid · Holy CrossSelected Photos
2016Land’s End: A Free Will FilmAn interactive film installation made in collaboration with Ann Dunham. 2 projectors mounted near the ceiling displayed a website consisting of 55 unique “Rooms”. The website consisted of embedded streaming videos, animated gifs, and sounds heard via headphones. With over 3000 potential room combinations, each user experiences a different version of the film.
2021A Soldier’s TaleA Soldier’s Tale (L’Histoire du soldat) was created in 1918 by Igor Stravinsky and the Swiss writer C. F. Ramuz, during the upheaval of the First World War and on the threshold of the influenza pandemic. Presented by the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra at the New Orleans Jazz Museum.2004–presentVideo WorksShort films, studies, and collaborative moving-image works.
2019QueueAn installation and interactive experience structured around the process of waiting.
2015B0XERA site specific cardboard installation that transformed 918 St. Mary into cave. In collaboration with artists, musicians, and filmmakers.
2009BLAM!A nineteen-minute film made at the University of New Orleans.