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Micro Films

Brief visual stories capturing moments of cultural significance in digital formats

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Digital Prayers
45 sec

Digital Prayers

Traditional prayers translated into visual code patterns, exploring spirituality in digital spaces.

2024
Quantum Beadwork
30 sec

Quantum Beadwork

Time-lapse of traditional beadwork that morphs into quantum particle patterns.

2024
Voice Echo
60 sec

Voice Echo

Indigenous language phrases create visual ripples in augmented reality space.

2024
Data Seeds
40 sec

Data Seeds

Seeds growing into circuit trees, representing how traditional knowledge feeds technology.

2023
Urban Totems
50 sec

Urban Totems

City infrastructure reimagined as modern totems through AR overlay.

2023
Memory Pixels
35 sec

Memory Pixels

Family photographs dissolving and reforming as digital memories.

2023
Memory Pixels
35 sec

Memory Pixels

Family photographs dissolving and reforming as digital memories.

2023
Memory Pixels
35 sec

Memory Pixels

Family photographs dissolving and reforming as digital memories.

2023

Filmmaker's Tribute

During the early months of COVID-19, when the world shifted into isolation and uncertainty, I found myself drawn to the intimate format of micro films. What started as a way to document fleeting moments during lockdown evolved into a deeper exploration of how diasporic stories could find new life in digital spaces.

The constraint of brief formats—30 to 60 seconds—forced me to distill complex cultural narratives into their most essential elements. Each micro film became a meditation on presence, memory, and the ways technology can serve as a bridge between ancestral wisdom and contemporary expression.

This collection represents not just artistic experimentation, but a personal journey of reconnection— with community, with storytelling traditions, and with the profound power of brief moments to carry entire worlds of meaning.

— Created during the pandemic, 2020-2024

Highlights

Digital Prayers

Traditional prayers translated into visual code patterns, exploring spirituality in digital spaces. This piece bridges ancient wisdom with contemporary digital expression, creating a sacred space where technology becomes a vessel for spiritual connection.

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Quantum Beadwork

Time-lapse of traditional beadwork that morphs into quantum particle patterns. This micro-film explores the intersection of ancestral craft traditions and quantum physics, revealing the universal patterns that connect indigenous knowledge systems with modern science.

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Voice Echo

Indigenous language phrases create visual ripples in augmented reality space. Each word becomes a living entity, transforming the digital realm into a landscape where ancestral languages breathe new life through immersive technology and visual poetry.

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Data Seeds

Seeds growing into circuit trees, representing how traditional knowledge feeds technology. This visual metaphor explores the organic relationship between indigenous wisdom and technological innovation, showing how ancestral knowledge systems can nurture and guide digital evolution.

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Digital Storytelling

These micro films explore how diasporic stories can thrive in digital spaces, using the intimate format of mobile screens to create personal connections with cultural narratives.

Each piece is designed to be shared, discussed, and experienced as part of a larger conversation about our presence in digital media.

— Digital Strategy Notes