Works on VIDEO
This video is part of a memoir video essay trilogy that looks at creativity, mental health and identity formation.
With Drawings of a Teenager, (the first installment of this memoir), I tell the story of how being creative and sharing my work helped me with social anxiety (though I thought it was just something wrong with me) while also pushing me into the artist identity.
With this video - working title was "De Anza Days", I look at early young adult years 18 - 22 when I was struggling to figure out a creative life and a "character trait" I now call social anxiety. It follows a point in my life where I moved toward emotional recovery work.
In Jumping Fences, (the third installment of this memoir), I tell the story about living in San Francisco in the late 1980s and early 90s and creating a film that would also act as a form of emotional growth and a way of understanding what I later call Chicano identity.
These videos serve, for me, as a way of sharing old photographs and super 8 and 16mm footage of these days in the Bay Area while telling personal stories from a young (younger) perspective.