Gospel of Acuity
An experimental archival film that explores the limits of human perception combined with how we interact with those limits
Gospel of Acuity is a short archival documentary that fractures the boundaries between vision, memory, and the limits of perception. Built from hours of footage sourced from the Prelinger Archives, the film questions what it means to see and what slips past us unnoticed. It explores how history, like vision, is always partial and flawed. Crafted through instinct rather than rigid structure, the film became an experiment in surrender: to the archive, to speed, to abstraction. Using a disorienting, rapid-fire edit, it mirrors the overwhelming nature of contemporary image culture and the gaps in our understanding. The process of making this film was as much about confronting personal questions of authorship and intuition as it was about shaping a work, realizing that the act of filmmaking is less about having answers and more about responding to the world with honesty, uncertainty, and care.
White Noise: A Field Recording Composition
White Noise:
Embedded within the film is an independent recording composition. This soundscape unfolds like an overheard conversation. It is fractured, tense, and deeply internal. The piece leans into the stillness and distortion of the dark, where every sound echoes louder and more alone. Fragments of voice emerge like thoughts breaking through static, warping and receding before meaning fully forms. At times it feels claustrophobic, other times strangely hollow as if you're listening inside someone’s head as they argue with themselves. The distortion and layering create a kind of auditory dissonance, pushing listeners to consider how listening closely can sometimes pull us further from clarity rather than toward it. All sound was recorded in Bozeman, MT
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A stream running down my backyard
A contact microphone in a tree branch
A contact microphone on a swinging fence post
Bird ambiance in Gardiner Park, Bozeman MT
Morning ambiance on Pete's Hill, Bozeman MT
A contact microphone inside my mouth