SELECTED WORKS
My Life Is Wind (A Letter)
A refugee torn from her Middle Eastern home, Myriam resettles in the Midwest, documenting her early experiences in this new land through a poignant letter addressed to her grandmother she was forced to leave.
Purgatorio
Purgatorio unfolds like a riddle in motion: a site-specific dance film where gesture, camera, and sound hover between the absurd and the profound. A choreography of waiting, circling, almost-arriving—this purgatory is gentle, sunlit, and quietly unsettling. You can’t win a game you don’t know how to play, but you also can’t lose.
Her Baby Didn't Block Her Jump Shot
Long before Title IX, Iowa high school girls thrilled fans in packed stadiums playing 6-on-6 basketball. Empowered as athletes, they transformed the sport into the Midwest’s biggest spectacle. When sophomore All-State forward Jane Christoffer became a mother and was cast out of the league, she challenged their notion of farm-girl femininity, demanding her right to play ball.
Mammoth
Mammoth, a short psychological drama, follows Catarina, a grieving young woman who secretly mothers a lifelike reborn doll as though she is her own. Emboldened to take her doll out in public for the first time, Catarina ventures to the Museum of Natural History of her youth.
Home No Return
During a party at her house, when a young woman comes out to the backyard, a series of interactions with her friends leads her to question if she is making the right choice to go back to her home country to visit a dying family member, at a time of chaos and uncertainty.
The Tower
A chaotic tapestry of colorful characters collide in a small Iowa town. Runaway children make a movie, aging idealists hatch a dangerous plan, aimless townie girls get into mischief, a mysterious mother digs for buried treasure, and shirtless man ponders the meaning of the town’s towers. Spooky, serendipitous resonances bubble up between stories where people play themselves in fictionalized as well as real life scenarios. In a world in crisis, filmmaking itself becomes a form of coping and celebration.
