Living Spaces

Documentary, Cinematography, Editing, Sound Design

Living Spaces is an atmospheric documentary exploring an abandoned motel in Lake Country, British Columbia, and the traces left behind by the people who once inhabited it.

 

Haunting imagery of deteriorating rooms and structures are layered with constructed soundscapes, and the voices of two young women reflecting on home, memory, and impermanence.

As nature slowly reclaims the motel, through time, decay, and even fire, fragments scattered throughout the property hint at lives and stories that have disappeared with it.

 

The film considers how we construct our sense of home, how much our 'things' actually mean to us, and what remains in these spaces when the people themselves are gone.

Plugged In

Interactive Video · Creative Coding · p5.js · 3D · Light Up Kelowna

Plugged In is a music-driven interactive audiovisual work exploring technology, addiction, and isolation.

 

Built in p5.js, the experience carries the viewer along a fixed descent through a surreal technological environment while allowing them to look freely around the surrounding 3D world. Movement, imagery, and music combine to create the sensation of being pulled deeper into a system that is both seductive and unsettling.

 

A recorded version of the work was exhibited across a three-panel urban screen as part of Light Up Kelowna.

 

Featuring Humans Are Such Easy Prey by Perturbator.

 

 

Oh Sh*t

2D Animation · Motion Design · Photoshop · After Effects

Oh Sh*t is a colourful, scrapbook-style animated short about procrastination, artist's block, and the mounting horror of a deadline you can't bring yourself to meet.

 

Following a young woman attempting to finish an important project the night before it's due, the film uses collage, illustration, and sound to turn the struggle to find inspiration into the inspiration itself.

Down Home

Documentary · Interview · Editing · Archival Media · Premiere Pro

Down Home is a documentary short exploring the experiences of two Newfoundlanders who relocated to Ontario during the economic migration of the 1980s.

 

Through their parallel stories, the film examines what it means to leave home in search of opportunity, and the ways identity, memory, and attachment to a place persist decades after leaving.

 

Produced during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, the project was assembled through remote interviews and contributed footage, requiring the documentary to be shaped largely through editing, archival imagery, and the relationship between two independently recorded stories.

 

Additional footage courtsey of pthteam and Seth K. Hughes.