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Billy’s Awakening
short film 
Summer 2025
Billy’s Awakening 

As European settlers in America revolt against the British Empire, three aristocrats maintain a sense of normalcy at their estate.

> RUNTIME: 20 mins.
> FORMAT: 4K Digital


BTS from filming on location, summer of 2024

Those Who Wait
experimental feature film
Spring 2024
Those Who Wait is a poetic retelling of the Millerite doomsday movement that swept across America in the 1840s. The film follows the town of Portland, Maine as its residents navigate waves of apocalyptic prophecy and disappointment. Mixing the genres of historic re-enactment with fantastic parable, this queer gaze into the colonial past explores the powers and perils of "believing it's over." 

> RUNTIME: 73 mins.
> FORMAT: 4K Digital
> WEBSITE: Those Who Wait Film
>PRESS: Philadelphia Inquirer, Portland Herald, Portland Museum of Art
 
Chani Bockwinkel & Ty Burdenski present Those Who Wait at the Portland Museum of Art Jan. 19, 2024




Drift (Tributary)video installationSummer 2023
Drift (Tributary) is a video installation made in collaboration with artist Karyn Olivier as part of her solo show at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York entitled How a Home is Made in the Summer 2023 and was selected to be independently featured at the 2024 Malta Biennale.

Filmed over the course of a month at a waste management facility in Philadelphia which sorts the byproducts of new and old construction in the city into recyclable and landfill-bound materials. 

> RUNTIME: 28 mins.
> FORMAT: 4K Digital
> WEBSITES: Karyn Olivier, Tanya Bonakdar



Legend of Isais
short film
Fall 2023
A demigoddess called Isais unknowingly sparks jealousy between a Templar Knight and his squire after appearing to them in an apparition. 

> RUNTIME: 14 mins.
> FORMAT: 4K Digital

Thanks to Rockland Woods Artist residency program and the Fall 2022 cohort for helping produce this experiment in melodramatics. 
 



a Phonebookpublication and video seriesFall 2019-Summer 2022
A weave of conversations about historic, systemic and everyday challenges to staying put in Philadelphia. a Phonebook conversations with owners and workers of small businesses and community spaces across Philly about staying power and the logistics of holding space in the city.

RUNTIME: Various (2-4 minutes / pages per subject)
FORMAT: Miniseries / Print
WEBSITE: a Phonebook Digital Series




signs of an edictexperimental shortSpring 2016
"Signs of an Edict" is a film experiment playing in and around dance cinema traditions. Towing the line between internal and external notions of justice, a familiar figure seems subject to unfamiliar forms of trial. As the body moves through landscapes and characters, can these notions of justice be taken seriously?

> RUNTIME: 18 mins.
> FORMAT: HD Digital
> LINK: signs of an edict


Veneer: Artist Portrait Seriesdigital series

Fall 2015
"VENEER: Artist Portrait Series" is a digital video series exploring the relationships between the work of artists and their ambitions. The 2015 VENEER pilot series features artists in the Austin, TX area and blurs the line between reality and fiction as it imagines what each artist's work would look like if the anxieties which motivate their work were taken to their furthest extent.

> RUNTIME: ~10 Minute Episodes
> FORMAT: Digital Series
> WEBSITE: Those Who Wait Film
 


Not a Memory, Something Personalexperimental shortFall 2012
 Shot up in the backwoods of Alaska and wastelands of a salmon processing camp, Not a Memory Something Personal is an autobiographical visual poem about an avoidant and vanishing romance between the filmmakers. While on a camping trip, one of them mysteriously disappears, tearing at the corners of their identity, memory, love and projection. As one searches for meaning without a past, the other struggles with his desires when they confuse memories. “Sometimes I forget that I am not you and you are not me.”

RUNTIME: 46 mins.
FORMATS: Super 8mm, HD, SD
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The film toured theaters and film festivals from San Francisco to Berlin in the Summer of 2012.
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