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The Wetlands of Lithium Valley

An interdiciplinary video, essay, and mural project about three wildlife habitats along California's Salton Sea © 2023, running time: 10 minutes

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The Wetlands of Lithium Valley (2023)

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Transnational Wetlands

A suite of videos about the anthropogenic wetlands of the Colorado River Delta. © 2012/2022, running time: 13.5 minutes

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Transnational Wetlands (2022)

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Cultivated Ecologies:
The Sutter/Yolo Basins

A video about the wildlife refuges situated inside the Sacramento Valley’s historic system of flood control levees and bypass channels. © 2018, running time: 6.5 minutes

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Cultivated Ecologies: The Sutter and Yolo Basins (2018)

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Cultivated Ecologies:
The Tulare Basin

A video about the wetlands that inhabit the Central Valley’s most southerly, most arid, and most intensively cultivated geographical region. © 2018, running time: 8 minutes

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Cultivated Ecologies: The Tulare Basin (2018)

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Cultivated Ecologies:
The San Joaquin Basin

A video about the reconstructed wetlands found within the vast and gently sloping basin of California's San Joaquin River. © 2017, running time: 7.5 minutes

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Cultivated Ecologies: The San Joaquin Basin (2017)

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Cultivated Ecologies:
The Colusa/Butte Basins

A video about the wildlife refuges located within the floodplains and sinks of the Colusa and Butte Basins—the northernmost sections of California's Sacramento Valley. © 2017, running time: 7.5 minutes

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Cultivated Ecologies: The Colusa/Butte Basins (2017)

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The Last Mill

A short observational documentary about California's last remaining pulp mill. © 2017, running time: 4 minutes.

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The Last Mill (2017)

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The Humboldt Bay Project:
Transportation

A short observational documentary about the globally-networked transportation infrastructure of Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 10 minutes.

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The Humboldt Bay Project: Transportation (2014)

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The Humboldt Bay Project:
Natural Resources

A short observational documentary about the timber, fishing, and mariculture industries of Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 10 minutes.

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The Humboldt Bay Project: Natural Resources (2014)

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The Humboldt Bay Project:
Power

A short observational documentary about Humboldt Bay's power infrastructure, including electrical, gas, formerly nuclear and renewable energy. © 2014, running time: 9.5 minutes.

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The Humboldt Bay Project: Power (2014)

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The Humboldt Bay Project:
Water

A short observational documentary about the natural tributaries and municipal watersheds of Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 8.5 minutes.

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The Humboldt Bay Project: Water (2014)

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The Humboldt Bay Project:
Conservation

A short observational documentary about the varied conservation initiatives actively underway around Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 9 minutes.

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The Humboldt Bay Project: Conservation (2014)

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The Humboldt Bay Project:
Shoreline

A typological inventory of the varied natural and manufactured shoreline characteristics around Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 7.5 minutes.

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The Humboldt Bay Project: Shoreline (2014)

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Humedales Artificiales:
Three Transnational Wetlands

A video and essay media publication about the anthropogenic wetlands of the Colorado River Delta in Mexico. © 2012       (En Español)

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Three Transnational Wetlands (2012)

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Geotérmoeléctrica
Cerro Prieto

A two-channel video about the perceptual and metaphorical characteristics of a gigantic geothermal energy field in Baja California, Mexico. © 2012, running time: 5 minutes.

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Geotérmoeléctrica Cerro Prieto (2012)

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Westlands

A two-channel video about the meditative and metaphorical perceptual characteristics of the largest and most politically powerful agricultural district in the United States. © 2011, running time: 6.5 minutes.

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Westlands (2011)

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Davis-Besse

A video about three days in the life of the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Plant along the shore of Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio. © 2011, running time: 9 minutes.

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Davis-Besse (2011)

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MODE

A video about a 73-mile long border-crossing international drainage ditch that delivers water from an agricultural district in Arizona to a highly ecologically significant wetland in Sonora, Mexico. © 2010, running time: 7 minutes.

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MODE (2010)

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Jefferson's Monuments

A video about four monumental and environmentally-problematic dams that are slated for eventual removal on Northern California’s and Southern Oregon’s mighty Klamath River. © 2010, running time: 8 minutes.

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Jefferson's Monuments (2010)

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MEXIMPERIALI

A meditation on the extensive and attenuated binational water infrastructure of the vast and highly agriculturally productive Mexicali and Imperial valleys in California and Mexico. © 2009, running time: 10 minutes.

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MEXIMPERIALI (2009)

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Cuyahoga

A video about the remaining industries that still soberly operate along the shoreline of Cleveland Ohio’s Cuyahoga River—a river once so highly polluted that it regularly burst into flames. © 2009, running time: 8.5 minutes.

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Cuyahoga (2009)

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CESPT

A ponderously beautiful journey through the complex municipal water and wastewater infrastructure of the city of Tijuana in Mexico—from the city's rugged municipal reservoir to the sea. © 2009, running time: 7 minutes.

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CESPT (2009)

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Hecho a Mano

An observational documentary video about the resourcefully improvised and largely hand-made exurban communities of the city of Tijuana in Baja California, Mexico. © 2008, running time: 12 minutes.

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Hecho a Mano (2008)

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Bay Dredge

An austere and formally rigorous investigation of a dredging operation along a lovely and isolated stretch of beach in Northern California in 2007. © 2007, running time: 8 minutes.

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Bay Dredge (2007)

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Exportadora de Sal

A video about the vast and magnificent perceptual and metaphorical characteristics of the world’s largest evaporative-based salt mine, located in Baja California, Mexico. © 2007, running time: 7.5 minutes.

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Exportadora de Sal (2007)

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Basura Quemada

A meditative visual inventory of the varied and improvised waste disposal strategies found in a number of informal communities in Tijuana, Baja California, during the winter of 2007. © 2007, running time: 5 minutes.

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Basura Quemada (2007)

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Lázaro Cárdenas Electrizada

A video about the mostly improvised domestic electrical infrastructure found in a rapidly-expanding exurban community in Tijuana in 2006. © 2006, running time: 6 minutes.

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Lázaro Cárdenas Electrizada (2006)

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La Morita Enamorada

A video about the mostly improvised domestic water and wastewater infrastructure found in a rapidly-expanding exurban community in Tijuana in 2006. © 2006, running time: 4 minutes.

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La Morita Enamorada (2006)

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The Cummings Road Landfill

A video about my community’s largest collectively constructed entity—a landfill that supported Humboldt County's waste disposal needs from the 1940s until 2001. © 2004, running time: 7 minutes.

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The Cummings Road Landfill (2004)

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