05/30/2025
ATLANTIC AUTEURS CLOSE-UP
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director of GLORY’S HOLE ANTIVERSE
Where are you from?
Dartmouth
How did you get your start as a filmmaker?
I’ve played with cameras for as long as I can remember, and I learned more about how to use them while I was at NSCC for broadcast journalism. My first time experimenting with video was through the Media Art Scholarship program. I started working with analog film during my time at NSCAD, and then my work scanning film at the expanded my understanding of the material, motivating me to experiment. It feels hard to identify a singular starting point. The process has felt like a snowball of experiences and learning that have merged into a sort of practice.
What was the inspiration for the film you’re presenting at HIFF?
At the time I was thinking a lot about spectacle and performance in relation to gender, neurodivergence, and settler-colonial lineage. Also, I was bored with black-and-white film and needed to make something super colorful. Hand processing color film is more tricky, and since I’m a process-based person I wanted to find a way to make my work colorful again without having to send it to the lab. I was inspired by the concept of generational loss in image data transfer, and started experimenting with capture, rephotography, and layering across analog film, digital video, betacam and VHS.
What would be the dream feature you’d pair with your short for a short-feature screening and why?
My first thought was BARBARELLA, but actually, I think it would be DANDY DUST by A. Hans Scheirl. It’s a low-fi late ‘90s Austrian film about a gender-fluid cyborg in space. It’s colorful and perverted.
