My most recent personal project, Birds Talk to Humans All the Time (2024), can be seen below. (4 minutes 32 seconds). I’d prefer if you watched the film before reading more about me/my process.

Film synopsis:

A crow attack seemingly disrupts director/writer/performer Julia Brown’s ploy for acceptance, revealing to her that the frame she had been living within was not her own. The film documents her passage through this distortion toward the reclamation of her own frame.

Director’s statement:

I’m still making sense of the film and what it has revealed to me. I’m beginning to understand the work as a map toward embodiment and autonomy, through which I trace the relational templates that shaped the character I played — a character I needed to become in order to survive.