Place Projectors: The Spirit Room (2021) - Annalisa Barron is a sculpture artist, metalworker, and educator based in Upstate, NY. In 2020, Barron was commissioned to create a site-specific, interactive sculpture, and three accompanying plays, for the Spirit Room - a theater and craft cocktail bar in downtown Rochester. This documentary follows her artistic process as she unearths the history of the Spirit Room’s 200-year old building to ultimately reveal the projector at the opening night of the Spirit Room’s Conjure Box Theater.
Salt of the Earth (2016) is a short documentary about life in the scenic rural town of Watkins Glen, NY, as told by community matriarch Rosanne Doane. While the village’s main industries are salt mining and grape growing, tourists flock to the area each summer for NASCAR races, wine tastings, and hiking. The strain on resources between full-time residents and the economy’s dependence on outside visitors becomes a point of contention.
The ritual of sunrise, a Maryland farm comes to life as the cows come in from the fields for their first milking of the day.
A short sample of shots from the film Election Day (dir. Linda Maroney) documenting the 10,000 people who visited the graves of Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass at Mount Hope Cemetery on Election Day 2016.