From experimental video art to narrative arthouse cinema, my upcoming features Sick Bacchus and The First Hour after Violent Death explore the boundaries of storytelling, emotion, and visual poetry. As a filmmaker, my journey began in the intimate and exploratory realm of video art and experimental cinema. These early works allowed me to play with
Through An Ongoing Exploration of Identity and Impermanence Across the past decade, my work in avant-garde cinema and video art has traced a continuous thread through memory, identity, and transformation. These short films are not bound by traditional narrative structures; instead, they emerge as fragments—emotional, philosophical, and deeply personal—inviting the viewer into shifting inner landscapes.
The PhotoWalk Podcast EPISODE #525 HOW TO CHANGE YOUR LIFE PROFOUNDLY There are moments in life when something deeply personal finds its way into the wider world—and this is one of them. My photo project Chalk-Stone White has been included in The PhotoWalk Podcast by Neale James, Episode #525: “How to Change Your Life Profoundly” (UK, 27 March 2026).
The Fictional: Rewriting Reality (London, 2026) In 2024, I began The Fictional—a photographic inquiry into the fragile boundary between truth and illusion. Inspired in part by The Peripheral, the series explored how power persists through architecture, symbolism, and narrative, even as reality itself fractures. Now, in 2026, I return to the same terrain with Aeon
‘Freedom begins where the old story ends’. ophelia rising now. ”OPHELIA RISING’ IS AN INVITATION: TO STEP OUT OF THE WATER, TO LET THE OLD SELF DISSOLVE, AND TO RESURRECT INTO A FREER EXISTENCE. She is taught to be beautiful before she is taught to be free. From childhood, the script is whispered into her
We walk across collapsed burial mounds, along worn tarmac and salt marsh, through quagmires where black crows pick at the remnants of life. ‘THIS TERRAIN MIRRORS OUR OWN MOMENT. PAST AND PRESENT NO LONGER SIT IN SEQUENCE BUT OVERLAP, ERODING INTO ONE ANOTHER. THE CHALK CLIFFS, CONTINUALLY SHAPED BY PRESSURE AND WEATHER, REVEAL HOW ALL
Art is my practice of freedom — a rehearsal in being, in soft strength, in radical presence. In my series On Being an Angel, I explore freedom as a lived, embodied experience — especially the freedom of a woman who chooses to exist as an artist. To create not as decoration, not as permission-seeking, but
At thirteen, i had already outgrown my hometown. not physically — spiritually. i no longer fit the narrative written for me. I was too observant, too intense, too unwilling to dissolve into the collective. and so I became a target.
Born during the collapse of communism, my childhood was spent between my grandfather’s cinema and the psychiatric hospital where my grandmother worked. I silently observed the fragility of human nature and learned early on that sanity is political and reality is negotiable.
The Rare Storyteller feature Between Crowds and Horizons by Monika K Adler. Visual Storytelling.
