Static is a film I created in 2014, but I have recently re-developed the work into an installation where the film will be screened on a CRT TV.
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Balancing Art and Life
in Filmmaking, Health, Life
Finding balance has been an important topic for me as I have previously found myself caught in a spiral of procrastination due to my tendencies towards perfectionism, and admittedly still occasionally do.
Read MoreZanj Hegal La: Colonialism, Filmmaking, and Attempts at Accountability
in Film Reviews
Coated with imagery of the local Haitian practices of Vodou and Kanaval, this reflexive narrative was created through direct collaboration between Casanova and his film students from the Ciné Institute of Jacme. The film simultaneously questions the ethics of its ethnographic filmmaking, while also exploring the aftermath of colonialism in Haiti.
Read MoreUnfair Working Conditions on Film Sets
The element that really irked me about this set was that, aside from myself, almost all the background actors were literal highschool students. They were children. They didn’t know they could say no to staying late, or stand up against anything else that wasn’t okay on that set. They were learning that this is the norm on film sets -- that unfair working conditions is the standards and that you shouldn’t say anything against it.
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