2025
15 minutes / black and white/ stereo / original format: 4k and found footage
One border. Two friends. Curiosity. Naïveté. Control.
SCREENINGS:
Antimatter [Media Art], Canada 2025
2025
10 min/ color/ stereo/ original format: found footage
Surveillance, stay-at-home-moms, and a mysterious flood converge in this speculative story on gender dynamics, parenting, judgment, and control.
SCREENINGS:
Experimental Fiction Filmmaking Festival, Manchester, 2025
This year's festival showcases the best and most exciting independent experimental fiction films from around the world.
The Unreliable Narrator, Deluge Contemporary, Canada, 2025
ABOUT THE PROGRAM:
These artists extend a literary device far beyond its use in narrative cinema to explore the motives of documentary, personal essay and experimental film. Employing self-shot, archival, appropriated and AI-manipulated footage to deconstruct and reassemble received ideals of storytelling, they question the very concepts of historical truth, narrative intent and the evidentiary nature of the photographic medium.
2025
9 min / tinted b&w / stereo / original format: HD and digitized super 8 and 16mm / projection format: HD-Digital
Analog filmmaking, experimental sensibilities, and camaraderie flourish at the Schule Friedl Kubelka for Independent Film in Vienna.
SCREENINGS:
Short Circuit Self Made, England 2025
Shifting Ecologies of Photochemical Film Conference, Aberystwyth University, Wales
2024
65 minutes /black and white and color/ original format: 16 mm shot by Hiram Percy Maxim between 1924-36
A father created the first automatic machine gun, abandoning his family forever to chase glory. His son invented the gun silencer, shot reams of 16 mm footage, and wanted to change his name.
SCREENINGS:
Atlanta Film Festival 2025
GEORGIA FEATURE SPECIAL MENTION
Jury Statement:
“We celebrate this film for its breakthrough concept and fierce originality, its affecting and fascinating examination of memory, and the unexpected lineage it traces between cinema and warfare, the camera and the gun.”
New Orleans Film Festival 2024
“It's a fascinating story of legacy and inheritance, as well as the history of guns and cinema itself.”
PRESS:
from Sonic Cinema
There’s something dreamlike about Caroline Rumley’s “Eponymous.”
“Eponymous” is a wonderful gem that pays tribute to a family’s life, and early cinema’s potential.
from the Swampflix podcast
“This is like an experimental film that actually makes use of visual language in addition to being a documentary of historical past. It's really spooky and really upsetting and, yeah, I thought it was great / probably the most interesting looking movie I saw at the festival / I was really impressed with this movie as a visual piece, which is not always the case when it comes to documentaries.”
from the Atlanta Journal Constitution
2024
10 min / color and black and white/ stereo / original format: 2k and found footage
Old photos live in a box, each with a good tale attached. But the memories that surface are another story. And these have to go.
SCREENINGS:
Antimatter Media Art 2024, Canada
2023
4 min / tinted black and white / stereo / original format: 16 mm archival footage
As Covid dims and the war in Ukraine does not, there remains just one absolute.
SCREENINGS:
COMPOSED Short Film Festival, Canada, 2025 - Best in Festival Award
Your film stood out for its craft, vision, and emotional resonance.
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, 2025
Rare Effect Digital Art Festival, Lisbon, 2024
Festival Fotogenia, Mexico, 2024
REELpoetry, Houston, 2024 - Winner Best Film Thematic Category
Vastlab Experimental, Chicago , 2024
Screener Short Films, London, 2023
Still Voices Film Festival, Ireland, 2023
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, 2023
“A meditation on loneliness and society…about time loops and transience, even that of crises – and the explosion of new ones.”
2021
3 min/ tinted b&w/ stereo/ original format: 16mm
It’s not what happened first. It’s what happened next.
SCREENINGS
20th Anniversary Schule Friedl Kubelka, Filmmuseum, Vienna 2025
The 2024 Film and Video Poetry Symposium, LA
JAFEST 2024, Portugal and Lithuania
Living with Buildings 2024, Coventry
Short Circuit Films 2023, Brighton
AntiMatter Media Art 2022, Canada
Midwest Video Poetry Fest 2022, Madison
International Video Poetry Festival 2022, Athens, Greece
Ernte Sehen Film Festival 2022, Austria
Athens International Film and Video Festival 2022, Ohio
REELpoetry, Houston, 2022
Vastlab Experimental, LA, 2021
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin 2021
Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition, Cork 2021
2020
15 min / tinted black and white / stereo / original format: HD and archival footage
How much of who you are is where you come from? An American woman and her daughter interrogate their Southern roots.
SCREENINGS
Poetic Cinema Festival, Buenos Aires, 2025
The 2024 Film and Video Poetry Symposium, LA
Still Voices Film Festival 2022, Ireland
Sydney Film Festival 2022, Australia
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, 2022 - Best Documentary
Short Circuit Films, Brighton 2022
Screener Short Films, London 2022
Thomas Edison Film Festival 2022 - Director’s Choice Award
IDFA 2021
“The art of film prides itself in its comprehensive power of hijacking all other arts into its language. In this Pathway, films rely profoundly on words. The experience of watching the film becomes, in part, a literary experience too.”
AntiMatter Media Art 2021
Athens International Film + Video Festival 2021
Carrboro Film Festival 2021
Oxford Film Festival 2021
“This year’s selection of documentary shorts combine themes of family and self expression told through beautifully imagined visual storytelling. Each one a snippet of personal history that brings focus to the present in order to imagine a future shared by all…”
-Donna Kosloskie, Director of Programming
The New Orleans Film Festival 2020
“Our programming team celebrates work that, in its form and construction, offers a rebuke to conventional means of filmmaking and forges new storytelling pathways,” said New Orleans Film Society’s Artistic Director Clint Bowie. “Through this year’s lineup, we invite audiences to engage with work that addresses the social and political inequities of our collective past and present.”
-Clint Bowie, Artistic Director
PRESS
-Docs in Orbit IDFA watch list
-Director talk from Antimatter here
-Dixie in “Doomed to Remember” from talkingshorts.com
-Francesco Cazzin and Francesca Rusalen write about Dixiehere
2020
7 min / color / stereo / original format: HD
From Rothko to European creator Claudia La to the filmmaker, the artist's search for inspiration is ever fluid, yet the same.
SCREENINGS
International Portrait FIlm Festival, Bulgaria 2021
Docu Film León, Mexico 2021
Still Voices Short Film Festival, Ireland 2020
PRESS
Article featuring the film
2018
12min / tinted b&w / stereo / original format: HD and digitized super 8
Four friends. Many Bands. Expectations. Addiction. Loss.
SCREENINGS
Screener Short Films, London, 2021
Wales International Doc Festival, 2021
Atlanta DocuFest 2020 - best experimental short
Docu Film León 2020
Denver Film Festival 2019
41 N Film Festival 2019
Film Fest Zell am See 2019
Victory International Film Festival 2019
Still Voices Short Film Festival 2019
Flatpack Film Festival 2019
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival 2019 - best documentary
Athens International Film + Video Festival 2019
Tofino Film Festival 2019
Sundance Film Festival 2019
Blue Danube Film Festival 2018 - Vienna and Budapest
Anti-Matter[Media Art] Film Festival 2018
Haverhill Film Festival 2018
2018
6 min / color / stereo / original format: HD
A woman is stopped by police, arrested, and taken to jail for turning left - on the eve of Trump’s visit to town.
SCREENINGS
Video Art Miden, Seli National Ski Resort, Greece 2022
Video Art Projects, Thessaloniki 2022
Little Islands Festival, Greece 2021
Alphabet Art Center, Manifestations, 2021
Vastlab Experimental Festival, LA 2020
Ernte Sehen Short Film Festival, Austria 2020
Twixtlab, Take One: Corona Flowers: 2020
Video Art Miden, Greece 2020
Llawn Festival, Wales 2019
Channels Festival-International Biennial of Video Art 2019, Melbourne, and traveling to Brisbane
International Motion Festival Cyprus 2019
Hazel Eye Film Festival 2019
Newlyn International Short Film Festival 2019, England
International Short Film Festival Beveren 2018, Belgium
Linz International Short Film Festival 2018, Austria
Docufest Atlanta 2018
Still Voices Short Film Festival 2018, Ireland
Georgia State University Student Film Festival 2018 - best documentary
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival 2018
“Thank you again for your submission. I think that Right Turn - with its mixing of documentary, memory, fiction, and symbolism - got a lot of people thinking!”
-Gerald Habarth, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival
2018
3 min / color / stereo / original format: HD
An impression of Nelms Creekmur, an Atlanta-based modern-day blacksmith and wordsmith, and of the creative process itself.
Find him here: https://www.nelmscreekmurforge.com
SCREENINGS
Millennium Film Workshop, Crafts on Film, Brooklyn, 2025
The Word: National Centre for the Written Word, UK, 2020
Versopolis, Festival of Hope, Slovenia (online) 2020
Versi di Luce Festival Italy 2019
Atticus Review January 2019
Atticus Review Poetry Film Competition - Third Prize
Indie Cork Ó Bhéal Poetry-Film Competition 2018
Atlanta Film Festival 2018
Aquifer: The Florida Review Online, July 2018
Poetry + Video, Touring program:
At the Fringe Festival, Sweden 2020
The Garden Gallery, Australia, 2019
The Wrong: Digital Arts & Culture Biennale, Spain/global, 2019
Ó Bhéal Winter Warmer Poetry Festival, Cork, 2019
Kino Klub Split, Croatia, 2019
Semiosphera, Italy, 2019
Athens International Video Poetry Festival, 2019
