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film | video | documentary
film
holes (2025)
one year out from a ten-day stay in Methodist Hospital’s psychiatric ward, the filmmaker looks for a narrative in their mental health journey, and finds a series of absences instead.
Fugue (2023)
memory loss is a symptom that often accompanies intense depressive episodes. the self erodes - and, with it, the desire to preserve that self. this is a study of what remains in the aftermath.
created and produced with Ecem Aktas
echo (2023)
what do you say, after everything’s already been said? a portrait of a grieved relationship, and the process of navigating the terrain of mourning.
created and produced with Ecem Aktas
video
ye of faith? (2024)
is god watching (over) you?
observation (2024)
excerpt from patient files. test case, re: experimentation in gendering a body.
installations
ritual (2024)
ritual is both a spiritual term, and one used in psychiatry to describe the repeated, compulsive behaviors associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. or: a conversation between two sides of the same coin, and the altar it takes place at.
…and you’re off somewhere missing it (2024)
love and violence, and the shame that connects them. can you get clean when the soap itself is dirty?
or, combine richard siken’s ‘wishbone’ and david fincher’s fight club in the studio sink
documentary
Mudhif (2024)
In the summer of 2023, a traditional reed structure of the Iraqi marshes was constructed by volunteers on Rice University’s campus, overseen by Azzam Alwash and organized by Archaeology Now, a local non-profit. This documentary chronicles the Mudhif’s construction, its use as a place of gathering and exchange by the Iraqi community in Houston, and its passage into the ‘realm of memory’ in December of that year.
Created by Eli Johns-Krull for Archaeology Now
Five-Minute Tours: Robert Ruello at the Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology, Houston (2025)
In Signal Spirits, Ruello presents both finished work and pieces which echo the different stages of his process, providing a glimpse into how his final paintings take shape and pointing towards the multilayered nature of his work and the stories that inspire it. With this exhibition, he aims to inspire viewers to do their own research, and to think more deeply and critically about the presence and influence of data in everyday life.
Created by Eli Johns-Krull for Inman Gallery and Glasstire
Queen of the Bayou (2022)
A portrait film of Bryce C / Vitamin B, a Houston drag performer and educator. With this film, we intended to explore the relationship between Vitamin B and drag - why and how they started performing, how they conceptualize of their drag persona, and the role that drag plays in their life. Using these core concepts, we crafted a film that offers not just a look at the interior life of our central figure, but also an exploration of drag itself and the connections between drag and identity.
Created and Produced with Ariana Zhu