Biography
I am an independent filmmaker with roots in performance art and a passion for celluloid photography. I have self-produced a number of rich, powerful films, both narrative and documentary.
I live in and between Toronto, Ontario and Riga, Latvia.
In all my work I have sought to discover some form of truth and beauty as an answer to the questions: What do we value? Where does one find happiness, a sense of self and belonging? Where is the potential for genuine connection with others and the world through accepting our weaknesses, fears, moral and emotional disarray outside of the confines of judging ourselves, our actions and others as good or evil, right or wrong.No matter how desperate, lonely and isolated one may feel, some form of grace will always enter, as hope, beauty, or love, if one allows for that.
With specific regard to the medium of film, I have always been interested in the aesthetics of visual language, focusing on the textures, colours, spatial design, lighting and sound within each setting, environment and landscape, attentive to the finest details in their potential to create a more evocative, seductive, metaphorical, associative possibility for the viewer to experience a story through the medium of cinema. This allows me to explore the relationship between place and the emotional rendering, foreshadowing and development of a character's inner emotional world.
