Biography

I have been working in documentary and video art since the early aughts. In 2006, I released my first long-form work, LA CURACIÓN (THE HEALING), about the lyrical and political dimensions of health and healing, set in the Northern Andes. For the next decade or so I dedicated myself to collaborative experiments in lens based media, multi-channel video installation, 3D scanning and LIDAR, and various forms of analog and digital image manipulation. My cinematography work from this period was shown at The Cannes Film Festival, South by Southwest, The Whitney Biennial, and streamed online on the Criterion Channel. In 2018, I was selected as an Independent Film Projects Documentary Fellow, and have resided at the Alice Kaplan Institute at Northwester University, the Institute for Advanced Study at the Central European University in Hungary, and the Wexner Center for the Arts. That year I was also named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces” of independent cinema. Shortly thereafter, I opened “Formidable Entities” with Hadley Austin to emphasize artistic nonfiction work. In 2020, my first feature, A MACHINE TO LIVE IN (about utopian architecture in Brazil), premiered in the Burning Lights Competition at Visions Du Réel and the True/False Film Festival. My latest work as Director of Photography has been DEMON MINERAL (2023) a documentary about the baleful legacy of uranium mining on the Navajo Nation, , which premiered at DokFest Munchen (World) and Mill Valley Documentary Film Festival (USA), and won the jury award at Slamdance in 2024.

I currently reside in Chicago, USA.