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Such big thanks for everyone who came by the grove at Studio 615 to see The Three Clairs (cardinal version) at Defy Film Festival.

I am especially grateful to my sweet friend Fjolla Hoxha Simon for facilitating the artist talk with me about the piece and my journey to create it. I also want to thank Dycee Wildman and Billy Senese from Defy Film Festival, as well as all of my indiegogo campaign supporters who donated to my trip to Finland to attend the Arteles residency where I wrote and shot this film.

I am pleased to say that at long last, the final iteration of THE THREE CLAIRS will materialize this coming weekend in Nashville as part of the exquisite Defy Film Festival. 

I wrote and filmed this piece on a 2006 JVC Camcorder in rural Finland in the summer of 2022. The performers were Hayun Yoon, Antonio Caruso, and Susan Clarke — three magical people I befriended at Arteles Creative Residence in Haukijarvi, Finland. I created the animations while on weekend residency at Electric Arcadia in Sewanee, Tennessee in January 2024. The music was made in Ableton Live at a cabin at Tim’s Ford in July 2025 and each of the four films are playing on a loop, creating an asynchronous piece of music that will continue to change as it plays. This is my most ambitious solo work yet and I do hope you'll come see the "screening" if you can. 

I am pleased as punch to say that my films “The Three Clairs” will be debuting at Gallery 1010 in Knoxville on April 4th. Special thanks to Kai Mote for including me in his show “Cross Currents”.

Hi there earthlings,

My film project that I shot while at Arteles in Finland took a pause for a while, but I have recently been making some progress. 

During the weekends this January, I have been working in-residency at Electric Arcadia, a studio / retreat / event space and home of Linda Heck in Sewanee, Tennessee. While in Sewanee, I have wandered around the University of the South's campus, revisited the footage I shot in Finland and worked on animations that will be a part of the final four-part series. I also took this time to learn a new animation program - Procreate Dreams - which I am loving…

This quote from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 10 lessons for Learning to Make Films D’auteur kept me company and left me pondering during much of my time at Arteles:

“Filmmaker! An anthology of fragments, you too are a fragment. Your film, unfinished, just a part, a continuation. There is no finishing. Kill the word Ending. You'll start making a movie the day you realize you are just continuing what you already started. Never try to achieve prestige. Disregard the bombastic. Don't decorate. Don't try to anticipate what the image will convey. Don't look for them. Receive the images. Hunting is forbidden, fishing is allowed.”

I have finally developed all of the 35mm photos I took over the course of my month-long excursion in various areas of Finland! You’ll find pictures of the lands around Arteles Creative Center, the island fortress of Suomenlinna, shots I took while filming my video project, and a land art piece we visited called Up and Under by Nancy Holt.

The video I directed and edited for Jack Silverman’s Cerulean is out now on YK Records! Big, huge thanks to Jack and YK for asking me to create this music video. I used footage from public archives as the imagery for this project, inspired by found footage and archival recordings of abandoned and ancient places around the world.