I don’t want to be on social media anymore.
Photo by @sd_herzog_photo
These are my best friends. We’ve known each other our whole lives.
April 2025
March 2025...I finally updated my reel
The Urban Goat
January 2025
This project was very special to me. It was a collaboration between my family and oldest friends to launch handmade ‘Urban Goat’ a boutique company that makes artisan plein air paintboxes.
My sister directed and I was the cinematographer.
Work was slow in January and so I took the chance to design my first website.
Here it the website link: urban-goat.com
November 2024
Exported Debut Feature Documentary
This is my debut feature film. We don’t have a title yet. Maybe ‘A Little Bit About revenge?’ or “My Idea of You” or “remember Me?”
When I talk about it I say things like ‘its a memory play. It’s about abstract feminine rage. Its a coming-of-age movie.’ Its not really about birds... even though there are a lot of birds. Its about the stories we tell ourselves and why we like them to be so black and white...and where that can go wrong.
If you want a less annoying answer, its about me and my partner, Adam, flying to Spain to hunt down a boy I knew in middle school who did something terrible to me so I could confront him.
We have been working on this movie for over 6 years and it is almost finished. We will submit to festivals this year.
Thank you to my co-director (and almost husband) Adam Dietrich, Erin Casper our witchy and wonderful editor, Field of Vision and Charlotte Cook our patient and supportive EPs, Jonathan Murray our EP who started it all, my sister Lana Graves who pushed me across the finish line and so many more.
Making a movie is devastating, messy, unknown and wonderful thing.
June 2024
Tribeca Film Fest with the film ‘Im Your Venus’ and the filmmaking team. I was a cinematographer and shot the best ballroom and drag I will ever see.
At some point that night we stopped for martinis at Hotel Chelsea.
September 2024
Sisters in Scotland.
My sister and I went to Scotland together. We counted sheep. Drank a cup of Yorkshire tea every night and shot 17 rolls of film.
When she was little she hated me taking photos of her… but she is and has always been my favorite person to film.
The photo of her on a hill reminds me of the film “L’Avventura”
August 2023: Interviewing Gloria Steinem
I studied documentary journalism at the Murray Center for Documentary Filmmaking. A few years ago I was paired with Morgan Goertz as my mentee via the Murray Center Mentorship Program. Morgan makes me very proud. She is tough as nails while also holding onto her sensitivity. Shortly after moving to Brooklyn, Morgan joined me on this shoot in Gloria’s home and was the Camera Operator on A Cam — she handled herself beautifully.
July 2020
PINS AND NEEDLES
These hands are my mum’s. She’s using her Featherweight Singer sewing machine. She’s had this machine since she was 9 years old.
When I was growing up, my mum taught art classes for kids in our basement. Her students would design their own ‘ugly dolls’ as a class project.
I can remember small children sitting on her lap with their eyes transfixed on the Featherweight...they were so focused. So concentrated. I used to help my mum teach her art classes and getting the kids to stay on track was usually a constant effort — but when the sewing machine came out that was not the case.
I think there is something special about a machine like this..it has this smell to it. One that I could identify anywhere because its attached to memories and nostalgia. Its sort of like old books? but better. The sound has weight to it..”thump thump thump thump thump.”
My mum would place the tiny hands sitting on her lap on the machine and would guide them as their ugly dolls came to life.
That is one of the things I am most grateful to my mum for — she didn’t want to pad us too much. She taught us to value learning new skills and imperfections over protecting us from mistakes or the odd needle poke.
She sewed hundreds of dolls on this machine. What that really means is that hundred of kids got to experience the exquisite joy of imagining a dream toy... and the pride of then holding it in your arms.
I made this video in 2020 during lockdown.
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Below is a video I made maybe 10 years ago now of our old house with the art studio in the basement.
595 Lincoln : 2016
I think I shot this on a canon 5d that I borrowed from school. It was one of the first projects I shot and edited in my first year at the Murray Center for Documentary Journalism.