Iraq War Videos
Vanilla
1 hr (1 min. excerpt), Video, 2022
Fox News Live logos repeat over and over again until they form a giant undulating form–an ocean-like expanse that visualizes American media’s infamous right-wing echo chamber. The very repetition of these logos creates an optical illusion–an autostereogram (“Magic Eye”) that when viewed in a certain way reveals the word “VANILLA.”
We Might Never Catch Up
3 min. 32 sec., Video, 2019
Reflecting on glitch as a subversion of narrative, this video presents a series of news clips from April 7, 2003 when the U.S. Military used a tank named "Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue" to blow up an equestrian statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad.
Tiles
17 min. 23 sec., Video, 2020
Tiles explores the intersection of the Iraq War, recreational skiing, and my family’s persecution by the Nazis in Germany. News stills, maps, and family photos are cut up and shuffled into a central frame.
Operation Iraqi Freedom
1 hr. 39 sec., Video, 2019
Operation Iraqi Freedom montages together news bumpers, transitions between news stories, advertisements, and channel switches isolated from recordings of cable news broadcasts (CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News) from the first month of the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The footage was sourced from YouTube videos uploaded by anonymous users who digitized their home VHS recordings.