Upcoming events:
July 31st at the Arts Club of Chicago β Iβll be interviewing fellow filmmaker (and long-time collaborator) Derek Spencer as a part of the debut screening of his new film ππ―π₯ ππ° ππ°π³ ππ¦π³ ππ©π’π΅ ππ¦ ππ°πΆππ₯ ππ° ππ°π³ ππ¦, commissioned by The Arts Club of Chicago. https://www.artsclubchicago.org/program/film-screening-and-discussion-with-derek-spencer/
Filmmaker and theater artist Derek Spencer imagines three would-be lovers paralyzed by their fantasies. Utilizing Oren Pinhassiβs sculptures in The Arts Club of Chicagoβs gallery as inspiration, architecture, and scene-partner, Spencerβs film, ππ―π₯ ππ° ππ°π³ ππ¦π³ ππ©π’π΅ ππ¦ ππ°πΆππ₯ ππ° ππ°π³ ππ¦, constructs a shape-shifting love-triangle without resolution. The newly-commissioned, site-specific work is presented as a three-channel triptych and accompanied by a collaboratively-devised vocal score. Before and after the screening, Spencer sits down with fellow filmmaker Sid Branca to discuss process and background.
Cast & Crew:
Devised and Performed by Rahila Coats, Nic Eastlund, Zachary Nicol
Director of Photography β Eon Mora
Line Producer/Vocal Coach β Katie Mazzini
Gaffer β Maximilian Vanderwerf
First Assistant Camera -Taylor Brady
(Derek was also the 1st Assistant Director on Quiet in the House, Katie Mazzini is in the cast of Quiet, and Eon shot some of my work as an actor. Beauty is the Terror We Can Bear, a film by Derek Spencer in which I appear as an actor, was also recently completed!)
What Iβm currently working on:
Post-production for Quiet in the House, my first narrative fiction feature, a psychological horror film about a group of actors in the grip of a charismatic theater director and a mysterious unseen force.We ran a successful crowdfunding campaign and completed principal photography in 2025, and I am now in the thick of the editing process, doing some last bits of recording, and assembling the post-production team. You can read more about the film at https://seedandspark.com/fund/quiet-in-the-house!
Planning future screening opportunities for A Real Inverted Person, a collaboration with Bree Dani Parman adapting her beautiful solo stage performance to film.