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A video about the wildlife refuges situated within the Sacramento Valley’s historic system of flood control levees and bypass channels. © 2017 (in progress)
A video about the wetlands that inhabit the Central Valley’s most southerly, most arid, and most intensively cultivated geographical region. © 2017 (in progress)
A video about the reconstructed wetlands found within the vast and gently sloping basin of California's San Joaquin River. © 2017 (in progress)
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 (in progress)
A short observational documentary video about the globally-networked transportation infrastructure of Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 10 minutes.
A short observational documentary video about the timber, fishing, and mariculture industries of Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 10 minutes.
A short observational documentary video about Humboldt Bay's power infrastructure, including electrical, gas, formerly nuclear and renewable energy. © 2014, running time: 9.5 minutes.
A short observational documentary video about the natural tributaries and municipal watersheds of Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 8.5 minutes.
A short observational documentary video about the varied conservation initiatives actively underway around Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 9 minutes.
A typological inventory of the varied natural and manufactured shoreline characteristics around Northern California's Humboldt Bay. © 2014, running time: 7.5 minutes.
A video and essay media publication about the entirely anthropogenic and episodically imperiled wetlands of the Colorado River Delta in Mexico. (2012) (En Español)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
