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Malcolm X Pecha Kucha
"At its core the video essay is, like its print counterpart, an attempt to figure something out—
not just with language but with image and sound.”
The Malcolm X Pecha Kucha is a video essay that I created for the course, Spike Lee’s Filmworks taught by Dr. Terri Francis at Indiana University. My Pecha Kucha was chosen to be featured in the Black Lives Matter Video Essay Playlist in 2020, curated by Will DiGravio, Kevin B. Lee, and Cydnii Wilde Harris of The Video Essay Podcast. The Malcolm X Pecha Kucha has been featured in the Camden International Film Festival and Dresden International Film Festival.
Criterion Channel
Dr. Terri Francis is a scholar and my former professor of Black Cinema Studies at Indiana University. Dr. Francis was contacted by the Criterion Channel to share her book, Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism and her expertise on the incomparable Baker for their series, The Queen of Paris: Josephine Baker on Film. I produced and directed the interview with Dr. Francis, which was shot in the Center for Black Literature & Culture in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Moving Portraits
Moving Portrait of Dr. Terri Francis shot with an Arriflex camera on 16mm film for course, Production as Criticism. The portrait specifically addresses looking relations and the oppositional gaze, while featuring Dr. Francis’s first book, Josephine Baker’s Cinematic Prism.
Portraits and curations from the course are now a part of the permanent collection of IU’s Moving Image Archives.
Black Film Center/Archive
I produced, wrote, and edited the promotional and educational video for the Black Film Center/Archive on IU's campus.
Materials were researched from the BFC/A online archive and compiled to reveal the essence and purpose of the center/archive both past and present.
Class Projects
Below are 11 various short films I have written, directed, produced, and edited for class assignments at IU