Current Projects
This past spring I produced, directed, and swam in my newest music video, “Not Yet,” an impressionist piece to Debussy’s ‘Clair de Lune.’ I have been dreaming of creating an underwater piece to ‘Clair de Lune’ for over two years, and somehow the planets aligned and I was able to make it happen with the help of many, many amazing and wonderful filmmakers and creatives in Austin.
I am currently working on a promo reel for James Hearne and finishing up edits for local Austin artist, Andrea Daniela. I was able to produce and direct a music video for Andrea during the Austin School of Film’s Music Video Production Summer Camp for middle schoolers. I can’t wait to share these with you all!
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‘Not Yet’ A Music Video
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Clair de Lune
Not Yet is an impressionist vignette capturing the wistful and longing nature of Claude Debussy’s famous Clair de Lune. Not Yet combines elements of narrative film, music video, and lyrical dance to tell the story of a young woman whose life is at a tipping point. She has not yet been able to manifest any of her dreams and must choose between submitting to “the real world” or to continue striving against forces of nature that feel insurmountable.
The young woman has been tossed around by life, represented by her full submersion in the water with waves and ripples thrashing around her.
The special arrangement of Clair de Lune by Austin composer Ben Tibbetts haunts the listener as much as soothes. Hope lingers between the melodic lines and anchors the listener amidst the storm and flurry of arpeggios. The music is in itself a living character within this piece. She must find the music, so that she may find herself.
In the end, she chooses to rise above the surface and dance in a victorious expression of her inherent creativity.
‘Jolene’
A Music Video
I had the privilege of working with Andrea Daniela, a local Austin singer-songwriter, during my Middle School Music Video Production Camp at Austin School of Film. The Middle Schoolers came up with the idea for the music video, created the set and storyboarded the entire video! I am very excited to share the music video once we are finished editing.