Narrative Cinematographer St. Louis Missouri

ANIMAL (Short Film) | Director of Photography

A short film about the existential terror of coming of age.

Set in rural Arkansas, ANIMAL centers on a young boy still deeply connected to the wilderness around him, unformed and unpredictable, but struggling with his own identity. He’s repelled by the toxic masculinity of the adult men he encounters, but also ill at ease with the softly civilized, maternal femininity of his own mother.

But more harrowing than either is his own suspicion that something… happens to him at night. That he may, in fact, be some kind of shape-shifting monster that prowls the countryside capable of terrible, unspeakable violence.

When he meets a young girl his age, there’s an instant connection, a familiar sparkle in her eyes that suggests she may understand his struggle. That she too might fear what she could become.

Mother (Short Film) | Director of Photography

Mother is a short film I worked on as the Director of Photography alongside the talented Director, Nato Neri. We submitted this piece to a Film Competition put on by Cinema at City Gardens in St. Louis Missouri.

This project was shot within 3 sporadic days all across the St. Louis Metropolitan area. Nature was a focal point of this project and we set out to shoot the basic elements of nature: Earth, Water, Air, and Fire. The Voice Over was of a poem created by the director called, Our Mother, Tender and Cruel.

MDM Honduras (Documentary) | Director of Photography

Ministry of Devine Mercy or MDM for short, is a non profit organization serving the poor people living in the mountain ranges of San Matias, Honduras.

Director of the organization Mike Ferguson, organized all the local interviews and scheduled b-roll days for myself and a camera assistant to document the stories of the change that is taking place in San Matias thanks to the help of volunteers from MDM.