Multimedia
This section contains examples of multi media work, from digital humanities projects to interactive documentary (i-doc) as well as feature-length documentary films I’ve produced, directed and created.
Digital Humanities and i-docs
This project merges oral histories with augmented reality, immersive online film making, and social media to tell the story of the American landscape. Recipient of a National Association of Broadcasters Pilot Innovation Grant. In production.
Meet the global phenomenon! Spanning six continents and seven years in the making, this interactive documentary immerses you in the global world of pin up. You’ll discover the women (and men) who are making their mark on the world with vintage style. 2021.
This award-winning i-doc contextualizes the story of the women who served in the Navy and Coast Guard. Produced with assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Ohio Humanities Foundation, it tells of the more than 100,000 women who went where no woman had gone before: into the Navy as WAVES and into the Coast Guard as SPARs. They received equal military rank and pay as men, respect from their “regular” Navy colleagues, and did it all wearing couture-designed uniforms. 2020.
Looking at Laurie was an experiment in digital humanities produced in Scalar, at its time a cutting-edge digital humanities builder’s site. One of my areas of research interest is New Media (writ large) and obsolescence. It’s coincidental then that this concept – which was awarded an AEJMC award for Creative Projects – is no longer available as the open-source platform no longer exists and neither does the project absent its availability.
Film
This experimental documentary offers a haunting reflection of remorse and remembrance within the conflicting framework of “paradise.” The film’s digital manipulations of sound and image challenge conventional notions of the role of the documentary storyteller and reality. The resulting questions are posed by a reliably unreliable narrator, Moira, a digital construction with a backstory through whose “eyes” and “voice” this visual poem unfolds. Producer. 2021.
Contemporary pin up girls, and the women who inspired them are the focus of this feature-length documentary. Inspired by the art of Gil Elvgren and Alberto Varga, and the style sense of Marilyn Monroe and Bettie Page, the pin up is, in the words of art historian Maria Elena Buszek, “a uniquely American phenomena.” The modern pinup is enticing, captivating, independent, and omnipresent – a thoroughly 21st century woman. 2015
Through oral histories, the documentary reveals a hidden history about a generation which changed the course of American life. The women who enlisted in the Navy and Coast Guard during Worlld War II may not have realized it at the time, but they were riding on the cusp of the wave of the future. As one woman notes, they were the “hinges of history.” 2013.
Not all champtions run for the roses. Go behind the scenes for a full season at the smallest race track recognized by the Daily Racing Forum. 2007.