through lines
Director + Writer
(8mm and digital, in Turkish and English with subtitles)
In production. An experimental documentary in the form of a braided poetry film threading matrilineal stories of origin, immigration, and liberation.
Jul 2025 | Sur o No Sur Artist Residency | Oaxaca, Mexico
Aug 2024 | Can Serrat Artist Residency | El Bruc, España
Sep—Oct 2023 | Lakkos Artist Residency | Crete, Greece
migrant flora
Director
(2024, 1:35 min loop, digital, in Turkish with English subtitles)
Eco-printed time capsules of floral migration. Cyclical thought and movement patterns of a family’s life as immigrants. Always home, yet never quite.
Apr 2025 | between a frame and a soft place | Brooklyn, NY
Oct 2024 | Frye Art Museum | Seattle, WA
Aug 2024 | Artists of Color Expo & Symposium | Seattle, WA
synch : swim
Director + Writer
(2023, 1:36 min, risograph-printed animation, nonverbal with English hardcoded text)
A deconstructed how-to haiku for staying afloat through the endurance sport of life.
Featuring “Polycalia Myrtifolia” from album Seeds by Pablo Schvarzman, this project is an ekphrastic response to the durational performance “Esther, fíjate en la lima paquete importante” by Annabel Turrado, performed over six hours at Base Experimental Arts + Space in 2023.
TBA! | Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues | Oakland, CA
Jul 2025 | ArtLove Salon / Seattle Art Fair | Seattle, WA
Jun 2025 | Zebra Poetry Film Festival | Berlin, Germany
Nov 2024 | Fotogenia Film Poetry & Divergent Narratives Festival | CDMX, México
Oct 2024 | Midwest Video Poetry Fest | Madison, WI
Sep 2024 | Local Sightings Film Festival | Seattle, WA
Sep 2024 | Buenos Aires Indie Shorts Awards **Honorable Mention** | Buenos Aires, Argentina
Aug 2024 | Artists of Color Expo & Symposium | Seattle, WA
Apr 2024 | Experiments in Cinema | Albuquerque, NM
Apr 2024 | International Video Poetry Festival | Athens, Greece
Apr 2024 | NUDO Festival | Barcelona, Spain
unwavering / unfettered
Director + Writer
(2022, 2:34 min, 16mm direct animation, in English)
Hammered letter for letter into 16mm found footage of a police propaganda film, subtext emerges from the redundancy of repeated text as a reclamation of bodily autonomy.
Apr 2024 | Wide Open Experimental Film Festival | Oklahoma City, OK
Apr 2024 | REELPoetry | Houston, TX
Feb 2024 | Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival | CDMX, México
Nov 2023 | South Sound Experimental Film Festival | Seattle, WA
Nov 2023 | Engauge Experimental Film Festival | Seattle, WA
Oct 2023 | Midwest Poetry Film Fest **Honorable Mention** | Madison, WI
Apr 2023 | Experiments in Cinema | Albuquerque, NM + Virtual
May 2023 | Artists of Color Expo & Symposium | Seattle, WA + Virtual
paper plain
Co-Director + Co-Writer
(2021, 4:50 min, digital, in English)
2D objects reveal a couple’s three-dimensional fault lines.
Feb 2023 | NYC Indie Theatre Film Festival | New York, NY
Oct 2022 | Tacoma Film Festival | Tacoma, WA
Aug 2022 | North Bend Film Festival | North Bend, WA
Apr 2022 | SPLIFF | Portland, OR + Seattle, WA
Apr 2022 | Seattle International Film Festival | Seattle, WA + Virtual
kur dele dele
Director + Writer
(2021, 0:49 min loop, digital stop motion, in Turkish)
Looping stop motion honoring victims of femicide in Turkey. This visual prayer is a conjuring of power, a cutting of cords through repetition. A prayer for my sisters alive and unborn. A prayer for the families left to mourn. My maternal grandmother’s words pouring forth.
May 2021 | Artists of Color Expo & Symposium | Seattle, WA + Virtual
Proteus Vox Human
Writer
(2021, 8:20 min, digital collage, in English)
Cosmic guide to connecting with one’s future self. Ritual by Rana San, visuals by Vee Hua, music by Paul Siple.
Mar 2021 | pink noise vi: fantasy embodiment | Virtual
letters to [and from] Pablo
Director + Co-Writer
(2020, 3:33 min, 8mm, in English and Spanish)
Improvised visual letters breach sense, distance, and substance.
Featuring “Citrus Máxima” + “Camellia Sinesis” from album Seeds by Pablo Schvarzman.
Jul 2025 | This work was first published in TriQuarterly Issue #168, a publication of Northwestern University
May 2021 | Artists of Color Expo & Symposium | Seattle, WA + Virtual
Nov 2020 | Engauge Experimental Film Festival | Virtual
May 2020 | Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival **Jonathan Marlow’s Judge’s 1st Choice Award** | Virtual
what [in my nature] is dying
Director + Writer
(2019, 1:23 min, 16mm cyanotype direct animation, in English)
On my birthday I arrive at the ocean, previous night’s dream in tow. The film, wrapped around a circular glass pane, loops back on itself—exposed in the exposure under layers of sun-baked lemon lavender, topped with sand and salt water. 16mm cyanotype capsule of a solar return.
May 2023 | Artists of Color Expo & Symposium | Seattle, WA + Virtual
Oct 2022 | Engauge Experimental Film Festival | Seattle, WA
Jul 2022 | Eugene Contemporary Art TIME/SPACE | Eugene, OR + Virtual
letters to Pablo
Director + Co-Writer
(2019, 1:06 min, 8mm, in English)
An improvised visual letter written in alternating words, from one to another, shot on 8mm film.
May 2021 | Artists of Color Symposium | Seattle, WA + Virtual
May 2019 | Georgetown Super 8 Festival | Seattle, WA
disarmed
Co-Director + Co-Writer
(2016, 3:19 min, digital stop motion, in English)
Some things are better left unsaid. This is a true story about one of those things.
Comedic stop motion animation made for Hairstory – an art show, reading, and interactive performance featuring over 40 individuals’ experiences about hair.
Feb 2021 | Reel Love Fest | Virtual
Sep 2016 | Local Sightings Film Festival at Northwest Film Forum | Seattle, WA
Apr 2016 | Hairstory at The Factory | Seattle, WA
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