A collection of footage from projects over the past few years with a focus on 2020. These sequences feature clips that reflect how I operate and form viewer perspective when left mostly to my own intuition.
Samer Saem El Dahr is an electronic musician from Aleppo navigating his new life in America. He launched his music career as a Syrian exile in Beirut, pioneering a genre of electronic dance music he calls “electro-tarab”. Utilizing traditional Arabic musical techniques and samples, it marks the first true original production of Arabic EDM. After immigrating to Minnesota, he takes on his most ambitious album yet, “Toyour". Arabic for “birds”, it explores the theme of borders and freedom of travel. “Toyour” meets the reality of politics when the Trump administration’s travel ban forces Samer, a green card holder, to cancel international shows and puts into question the upcoming release of his album in Beirut.
Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation started as a two hour special, but was extended to a run of two full seasons on History Channel. The show’s reporting in season one made headlines in The New York Times. I served as the Director of Photography for the series. The video to the right is a tonal reel I cut from season one footage.
Since 2015, I have worked with Vice Media as a DP and operator on VICE (HBO, Showtime) and Vice News Tonight (HBO, Vice TV).
Two homeless friends navigate the added burdens of life during the coronavirus pandemic. In the process, they help maintain each other's sanity.
Created for The Human Impact, a group of people bridging the relational gap between the housed and homeless in Dallas.
This is a selection of films filmed and edited for the Lebanese music and culture magazine “Audio Kultur”. Two films are from a branded collaboration with Jim Beam Middle East called the “Make Series”. The second film was created to document the printing of AK’s issue commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide in 2015.
A serendipitous music performance captured while filming in Rwanda provides the perfect score for moments filmed for a clean water campaign.
Photos taken while filming in government controlled Syria, Summer 2016.
