My perspective as an artist has been informed by my musical upbringing: watching my mother run an opera rehearsal, playing with my sister in orchestra concerts, and doing math homework a few feet away from my father coaching a loud soprano. While I had too much performance anxiety when it came to pursuing violin professionally, I came to filmmaking with an interest in quietly and patiently observing the world around me. As I began making work, I recognized a consistent instinct to explore the particular feelings I associate with my early experiences in music: shared, communal collaboration; a tactile sensation of physicality and breath; and reverberations of joy and intimacy. I feel that my filmmaking is an act of observing and documenting the world of these associative qualities of music. The exhilaration of capturing these moments and crafting their musicality within a narrative has revealed a way of making which feels unique to my worldview.
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