The Work

Film. Game. Ritual.

Experimental documentary, 3D game design, and site-specific ritual work made across California, Belize, Senegal, Spain, and the U.K.

Educational Game Design · 2026

GeniusQuest

A 3D Unity-based puzzle adventure that teaches JavaScript through Ubuntu philosophy.

The Guardian, a GeniusQuest player character: young Black woman with a natural afro, wearing a black coat, crop top, jeans, and boots, in dramatic studio lighting
The Guardian
The Diplomat, a GeniusQuest player character: young Black man in glasses, white button-down shirt and charcoal trousers, standing composed in studio lighting
The Diplomat
The Rebel, a GeniusQuest player character: young Black man with a topknot, armored belt and fur mantle over jeans and boots, post-apocalyptic warrior aesthetic
The Rebel
Character idle animation — GeniusQuest, Unity 3D, 2026
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Commission · The Hidden Genius Project

The premise

Players choose a Genius character to navigate a futuristic, seemingly abandoned Oakland. They must solve JavaScript puzzles to collect seeds and rebuild the city against the Hater and his zombie army. The tension is real: Black boys aged 13–18, running from the Hater's minions while writing code. They felt the tension. They had fun. That is the proof point.

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Reach

Distribution & audience

Delivered to The Hidden Genius Project for platform launch in October 2026. Primary audience: Black youth aged 13–18. Distributed across six U.S. cities at launch, expanding to the U.K. and South Africa by 2027.

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Pedagogy

Ubuntu as curriculum

The game treats computing as a human right and builds its narrative, mechanics, and progression around Ubuntu philosophy — the conviction that we are who we are through others. Coding is framed not as an individual technical skill but as a collective act of city-building and seed-carrying. Indigenous divination technologies are directly related to programming languages; this game makes that relationship legible to its players.


Immersive Experimental Documentary · In Production

Consumption in 6 Acts

An immersive multi-channel documentary tracing my maternal line across six acts.

Visual research still from Consumption in 6 Acts: silhouette of a Black woman in period dress at the edge of a Louisiana bayou at dusk, Spanish moss drifting from cypress trees, fireflies scattered across still water
Dream layer sample — Consumption in 6 Acts, 2025

The film follows an ancestral motherline across the Gulf of Mexico, the Southern United States, Belize, and West Africa. Research was conducted during sabbatical alongside Maya and Garifuna women in Belize. Production begins December 2025.

The six-act structure stages the film as ritual: each act is a crossing, a remembering, a restoration. The work draws from Afrosurrealist methodology — crediting D. Scot Miller's Afrosurreal Manifesto — and from Robert Farris Thompson's framework in Flash of the Spirit.

Visual research — pre-production

Act I — The Portrait
Visual research: extreme close-up of two Black hands cradling a burlap sack from which points of golden light emerge
Act II — The Offering
Visual research: underwater cinematic shot of a Black woman in flowing dress silhouetted against shafts of turquoise light piercing the surface above
Act III — The Crossing
Visual research: intimate close-up portrait of a Yoruba woman, warm brown tones, shallow depth of field
Act IV — The Return

Site-Specific Ritual & Installation · Ongoing

Spatial Justice Ritual Archive

Altar building and ritual work to close doors to the oppression of women and children.

Altar close-up, Oakland: offerings of oranges dressed in molasses, a pineapple, yellow candles, white flowers, and fresh herbs arranged on concrete in dappled sunlight
Altar close-up — Oakland
Ritual divination, London: four cowrie shells arranged vertically on dark wood, two closed and two opened as part of a divination reading
Cowrie divination — London
Ritual object, London: a red and black painted vessel for Eshu alongside a bag of shells on a woven surface
Eshu vessel — London
Ritual object, Senegal: amala kawo — a ritual food offering of yellow stew with meat in a wooden bowl beside dried maize, basil, and ceramic vessels on a red cloth
Amala kawo — Senegal

Began in Oakland during the COVID shutdowns. Has traveled to Belize, the U.K., Spain, Senegal, and California. Indigenous divination methods determine the site, the participants, and the materials. Altars are built from biodegradable matter sourced from the land. The land absorbs them back.

A web-based archive of spatial justice works across the African diaspora is in development, launching 2027.


Selected Filmography

Experimental films & found footage assemblage.

  • 2018

    Ebbo

    Experimental documentary · 3:00
    TRT 03:00
  • 2017

    Love/Amor

    Found footage assemblage · 3:02
    TRT 03:02
  • 2017

    Who Matters?

    Found footage assemblage · 7:18
    TRT 07:18
  • 2016

    Untitled: A Meditation

    Found footage assemblage · 5:50
    TRT 05:50
  • 2012

    White Bitch Down

    Found footage assemblage · 5:00
    TRT 05:00
  • 2012

    Charmed Life

    Animation · 8:00
    TRT 08:00
  • 2011

    A Little Bit Colored. A Little Bit White.

    HD · 50:00
    TRT 50:00
  • 2011

    Irony of a Negro Police Officer (Roll Call)

    Found footage assemblage · 3:00
    TRT 03:00

Selected Screenings & Exhibitions

Where the work has traveled.

DOK LeipzigDMZ DocsIt's All True (São Paulo / Rio de Janeiro)L'Alternativa (Barcelona)Glasgow Short Film FestivalCinePalium Fest (Italy)Montclair Film FestivalSamek Art Museum, Bucknell UniversityBinnar Art Festival (Portugal)Roxie Theater, San FranciscoSmith Rafael Film CenterThe Black Woman Is God, San Francisco