Forest Falls (Changing scenery) (2023)
A birthday trip to Forest Falls. In 2003, The Old Fire—one of the most destructive and deadly in California history—threatened Forest Falls while burning 91,281 acres. 20 years later, we explore its landscapes looking for a getaway, in search of water and the changing scenery it may run through.
With music by Julian Cullars.
Chasing the owl… (remix) (2023)
An encounter with an owl in Hollywood.
Flaunt Magazine (2020-2023)
Various style films for Flaunt Magazine with Emma Chamberlain, Chloe Bailey, Cole Sprouse, Syd, Barbie Ferreira, and more.
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Untitled (Dolly) (2022)
Filmed in a motel in Yucca Valley.
Screenings:
Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles — April 2023
TWO (2020)
“I first wrote the music for this video in March, as a part of a larger series of drone compositions that were recorded during a residency at AZ West in Joshua Tree, using two guitars with e-bow and the Moog Mother-32 synthesizer. The composition exists between moments of dueling tonal action and sonic harmony, with many textures and frequencies combining to create tension and release. After I wrote this song, I sent it to my friend Monica Williams to see if she might be interested in choreographing some movement to accompany the track. We continued to corresponded, sharing thoughts and clips of her doing movements in her childhood bedroom with TWO in the background. Then, she and Nate Rynaski both found themselves back home in Nebraska and together, in nature, they created this beautiful video for the song. This video came together in pieces, conceived in collaboration and transmitted via the cloud — from the beginning sounds in Joshua Tree, to a locked down LA, then to a place of home in Nebraska and back to LA over the past 6 months, reaching each of us at separate moments as we worked through our varied states of isolation and adaption.” — Gemma Godfrey
Viewable on Graphite Journal & YouTube
Chasing the owl that sings me to sleep at night (2020)
Created at Otis College of Art and Design, months after being forced into isolation. This film draws on a mourning dove’s call (the recording of which is used for the soundtrack) and Lady Macbeth’s characterization of the owl as a bellman.
Screenings:
Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles — April 2023
a songbird fights its own reflection (2020)
Video installation. Cardinals fight their own reflections. Shows a cardinal, flashing on a CRT TV, pausing for viewers to see their own reflections in the screen for a moment.
For Grandpa Jim.
Screenings:
Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles — April 2023
Café Lilith (2020)
A server closes down the restaurant for the last time. Thesis film at Loyola Marymount University.
Music video for “I Told You” by Humors (2019)
A lullaby, a ballerina in a music box, falling stars.
Viewable on Flaunt Magazine
What they do with the bodies in 316 (2019)
A group of friends checks into a hotel for a night of discovery.