(Ephemera)
A filmmaker’s silent cut of the everyday, Montage begins with micro-films originally conceived with sound for release across networked devices, then remixes them into longer short films with new sound for theatrical and art-screening environments. For now, the missing audio is left to the imagination, withholding the complete experience until the films converge in screening. Writing moves both before and after production, serving at once as a generative force for the images and a response to what the images reveal, so that text and film continually shape and reshape one another. Building incrementally from discrete fragments into a larger cinematic unit, the series recombines images, gestures, and passing moments into an evolving visual score. Through experimental and narrative strategies, the series folds the ambient glow of ephemera into a multichannel, multivoice stream, transforming incidental cinema into a layered language of intimacy, rupture, and quiet resistance to the banal. As fragments accumulate, the familiar slips toward the uncanny, revealing a waking dream unfolding almost in real time, where living becomes enchantment and the world feels charged, porous, and alive.