Created for The Hullabaloo Newspaper (Tulane student newspaper). Tulanians explore how their Black queer identity affects their experiences as individuals within the Tulane community.
Music: Faith Hymn by Beautiful Chorus
Created in February 2022
A short reel of Miramar Beach, Florida.
Created in November 2021
Last year I had to make this short piece for my Media in Theory and Practice class. We were told to make a remix video. To go on archive.org, choose any sort of variation of footage, and mix it together to create anything we wanted. We also had to add some sort of sound that we made/recorded or already had ourselves. I found footage from a documentary made in the 50s about San Francisco, and then a collection of clips documenting a flower garden in New York City. For the sound aspect, I added in an annoying spam voicemail I get about 3x a week. I combined all of these to create this, a piece about how even when it feels like you’ve reached a point of peace in your life, there’s always some sort of chaos around the corner. It’s about how that stress it’s constant, and you can never really escape it.
Created in 2021
In this video, I aim to capture the simple pleasures of life growing up in Northern California. Telling stories through digital video, I focus my work around cinematic and aesthetic imagery to evoke an emotional response among my audience, often my own peers. Most of my work encompasses one theme - adolescence, and the ambiguity of growing up.
Created in 2019
In 2014, Google found my YouTube channel, and included one of my videos in an international commercial that they broadcasted during the Academy Awards. The commercial was about young filmmakers and the process of creativity. Google decided that I, the 11 year old girl (in love with her new video camera), was perfect for the story.
Frēda Salvador is a local artisan shoe brand designed in California, made in Spain. Frēda's shoes are "power shoes for power women", each style designed to "embrace confidence and exude a casual, yet sophisticated aesthetic".
Created in 2019
A fun snippet capturing Ari There Yet’s DJ set last weekend in the Malibu Mountains.
Music: On My Knees by Rufus Du Sol
Created in March 2022
Frēda Salvador is a local artisan shoe brand designed in California, made in Spain. Frēda's shoes are "power shoes for power women", each style designed to "embrace confidence and exude a casual, yet sophisticated aesthetic". I was hired to create a very short promotional ad meant for Instagram and further social media marketing.
Created in 2019
Using solely audio and video clips sourced from news and documentaries, in this video, I attempted to portray some of the toxic rhetoric around immigration our class is seeing in our current world. At first I asked myself, is this video too harsh or unsettling to show at the beginning of a school event? But I realized that showing this footage is not taking a political stance, but simply revealing that this is our reality, and these are things that other humans are saying. Really we must be critical of everything, we must question our public authority, our government, our society, in order to empathize with people our institutions are meant to serve. Our class really used this lense of empathy when working with these complex and dynamic crises. We came to the conclusion that leading comes down to listening, and I attempted to convey that message through this video, hoping to shift perspective on what is needed to solve today’s challenges.
Created in 2020
In my Media in Theory and Practice Communications class, we were asked to create a 35 second PSA video, without actually saying what the PSA was for. I created mine about COVID, and how quarantining has forced us to be cut off of physical human connection.
I decided to use my home video footage that I had laying around from my mom’s childhood to convey a message about how this human connection is necessary. I wanted to show authentic moments of affection to promote why we need to put COVID and quarantine to an end to gain this back.
Created in 2021