“The Story of The Cricket Queen” explores how digital culture collapses the divide between spectator and subject in a space where users both create and consume their own images. Through acts of online voyeurism and performance, the film interrogates the ethics of looking by placing the filmmaker’s own image alongside strangers, celebrities, and artificially generated voices that blur the distinction between the real and the constructed. Through these synthetic narrators and mediated images, the film reflects on how digital culture reshapes the body and the self.

Jury Award winner for Best Experimental Short at The Santa Cruz Film Festival.

Official Selection of The Santa Cruz Film Festival, Pollen: Video Spells NYC, Darkroom Film Festival, Altered Images Film Festival, The Wrong Biennale and The Video and Experimental Art Festival in NYC.