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Personal Effects

On October 16th of 2020 my heart suddenly stopped. It remained stopped for several minutes. I was lucky on two counts. The first was that a nurse happened to be standing 20 feet away from me and second that I was close a police station. The nurse performed C.P.R. on me and the police rushed to the scene and employed defibrillator paddles. I woke up three days later in the hospital and was told that I had survived something called sudden cardiac death (S.C.D.). The cardiologists tell me that only one in ten people survive this. After it was revealed to me that someone had recorded my collapse and the subsequent attempts to revive me and I was able to obtain that footage, I thought that I should make a film about this experience and its emotional and intellectual aftermath. Personal Effects is that film.

Personal Effects

NR 2025
10 Minutes

10 Minutes is a short film about grief, memory, and the fragile shape of time. Troy begins what should be the brightest day of his career, but everything shifts when he learns his mother is in critical condition. As he races home, a fallen hourglass from his childhood pulls him into the memories and advice she left behind, reminding him to breathe and stay true to himself when life becomes overwhelming. Through loss, family, and quiet reflection, Troy discovers how quickly a single moment can alter a life and how the smallest memories can carry the most weight. 10 Minutes captures the painful and beautiful truth that time can slip away, yet still leave echoes that stay with us.

10 Minutes

NR 2025
Through a Mirror, Darkly

Through a Mirror, Darkly examines the turbulent 1970s, a decade of hopeful rebellions and catastrophic disappointments, via flashpoint moments when American students protesting domestic racism and overseas wars were met by state violence in May 1970. As the Vietnam War came to its bloody end, for the American media, the memory of four American students shot dead at Kent State University was sometimes as emotionally charged as the millions of deaths in Vietnam. In the decades that followed, a memorial community has formed around the “four dead in Ohio.” Yet while the deaths of students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller, Sandra Scheuer, and William Schroeder at Kent State, Ohio, are remembered, not many recall Phillip Lafayette Gibbs and James Earl Green, two students killed ten days later by police officers at Jackson State College, Mississippi, a Historically Black College.

Through a Mirror, Darkly

NR 2025
Survival Without Rent

During the 1980s, there were hundreds of abandoned houses in New York that their owners were unable to maintain. They were taken over by squatters, who used their own hands to build homes, but also a utopian community, based on anti-capitalist principles. Archival footage and testimonies map their story, until their forced eviction in the 1990s. “Survival without rent: This is a book to help people take back homes that have been taken away from them by government and business.”

Survival Without Rent

NR 2025