Far West Blvd. (2024) is a music video for the song of the same name by AJ Baldwin. It combines computer-generated environments, live-action video, shadow puppetry and found media for a collage effect that expresses feelings of nostalgic longing for an idealized fabrication of the world. The aesthetic references the…
Mine (2024) is a short machinima video featuring Minecraft gameplay. The piece explores an important moment in a formative childhood friendship- though the relationship was uniquely intense and intimate, this computer generated cube-wedding was the only overt acknowledgement ever made of our queer dynamic. I was interested in what about…
Warping and Unraveling (2024), a video art piece inspired in part by Stan Brachage’s Text of Light, abstracts images of woven fabric to accentuate its structure, texture, and rhythm. The distortion and overlay reference the common symbolism of textiles- creating and transforming social structures. Warping and Unraveling was included in…
Isolated Incidents (2019), Co-Directed by Elan Retzlaff and AJ Baldwin and produced through Creative Action’s Youth Cinema Collective, is a narrative short film that explores the experience of being a student as the frequency of school shootings rapidly increases in the USA.
Leave (2018), an experimental short film about environment and perception, was directed by Elan Retzlaff and produced through Creative Action’s Youth Cinema Collective.