About me

I'm a media scholar, video artist, and curator. I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the Università della Svizzera italiana | USI in Lugano, Switzerland, where I co-lead the research group "The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies" with Kevin B. Lee (Lugano) and Johannes Binotto (Zürich/Lucerne), funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF, 2024-2027). For more on the research group, please visit www.videoessays.org. 
My video essays have screened at Locarno Film Festival, the Museum of the Moving Image, and the Hammer Museum, among others, and appeared on the BFI's Sight & Sound "Best video essays of the year" lists every year since 2018. 

I further serve as Associate Editor for [in]transition: Journal of Videographic Film and Moving Images Studies. Before moving to Switzerland, I conducted the postdoctoral project "The Digital Video Essay" at the Film University Konrad Wolf Babelsberg (funded by the German Research Foundation DFG, 2022-2023). I hold a PhD in Screen Cultures from Northwestern University.

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I believe that our contemporary digital media environment demands an interdisciplinary, multi-methodological approach towards understanding and working with moving images.

As such, I predominantly work in and on video art and video essays that remix existing archival, mainstream, and/or found footage. With my video practice, I aim to create meaningful reflections for diverse audiences, combining self-reflexive, poetic, and scholarly informed rhetorical modes, and to evoke a sense of awe for the power of moving images.

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Thematically, my videographic and written work is concerned with the relationship of artificial intelligence and cinema; film/media musicology & sound; global & transnational media networks; landscape and film; the essay film; media history; archive theory & practice; video & installation art; and the politics of taste and canon.