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OUT OF LINE | 16mm Dance film
Three students stuck in detention are sick of being boxed in.  Exploring repression, discovery, and creative liberation.

Official selection of The Hammer Museum Film Showcase 2022. Shot on Kodak 16mm film for UCLA project.

Director, Cinematographer, Choreographer, and Editor.



THINGS ARE GOOD | UCLA Thesis Short
An Experimental Drama chronicling a high schooler's determination to curate a picture-perfect life, even if it means tampering with her own ugly memories.

Official Selection of The Los Angeles International Film Festival

Official Selection of The Mammoth Film Festival and nominated for ‘Best First-time Filmmaker’ award

Official selection of The Byron Bay International Film Festival and nominated for ‘Young Australian Filmmaker of the Year’

Writer, Director, Producer, and Editor.





BUBU | Music Video
A glitchy manifestation of a virus terrorizing the cyber world in StrangeJane’s latest single.

Director, Cinematographer, Colorist, and Editor.



HALF EMPTY | Video Art Installation
An audio-visual meditation on water, transcience, and perspective. Viewers are encouraged to look at this piece upside down for an alternate experience.

Displayed at Water and Power for the Viscera Exhibition: Water. 

Director, Co-Cinematographer, and Editor.






SNOWPEA | Short Film
Stills from drama short film about a young woman’s psychological reckoning with some troubling news.

Official selection of the Malibu International Film Festival 2022.

Director of Photography.





TOXIC TRAITS | Experimental Loop
The suffocating pattern of toxic masculinity and cultural norms.
Looping excerpt of dance sequence from One Down's music video, "Toxic Filipino Traits".

Director of Photography.



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