I am a filmmaker and multimedia artist. I spent my first two years of college in Olympia, WA, before transferring to PSU. My films have been shown at festivals such as the Portland Film Festival and the Olympia Film Festival.

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I work in a style of "video collage" and attempt to encapsulate the aesthetics and moods of life in the Pacific Northwest. I like to make sentimental films.

 

Writer's Statement

I wrote this paper for a class on Mainland Chinese Cinema with Jennifer Ruth, which was my first real exposure to these films and topics. This was one of the course's only films directed by a woman, and engaged most directly with issues presented in many films we studied, such as sexuality, pregnancy, virginity, and sexual assault. I initially did not want to write about this film and deal with it so closely because it is both difficult to watch, and appears to make many statements about womanhood which are controversial, conflicting, sometimes hypocritical and confusing. Ultimately, I found something exciting and potentially challenging in writing about a film which makes many statements that are not always harmonious. There are elements in this film which encapsulate the experience of womanhood in a fascinating and satisfying way for me as a viewer, while simultaneously I feel pushed away and frustrated by it. Its flaws and imperfections are what make it such an interesting subject for a paper.