I create opportunities to see cinematic art.

The Nightingale Cinema is a rough and ready microcinema that was located in Chicago's Noble Square neighborhood from 2008-2022, and is now working with partner exhibition spaces to present roving cinematic programming under the title Nightingale Projects. I have directed the cinema since 2018. Programming strains include expanded cinema, new media, experimental narrative, documentary, and video art. The Nightingale Cinema is a proud supporter of artist, activist, underground, outre, avant-garde, après-garde, unconventional, independent, forgotten, and unforgettable cinema. Projection capabilities include 16mm and digital formats. Operated with a gift economy by an informal volunteer community of programmers, projectionists, critics, and artists, the Nightingale screens film and video artists both local and international.

I curated the short film program for the 2021 edition of the Maryland Film Festival.

I participated in the programming of short films for the 2021 edition of the Chicago International Film Festival.

From 2017-2020 I programmed the Onion City Experimental Film + Video Festival, a project of Chicago Filmmakers.

I have programmed screening events and art exhibitions in the United States and internationally. I have screened work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Gene Siskel Film Center; Hyde Park Art Center; Echo Park Film Center; and in cities such as Los Angeles, CA; Milwaukee, WI; Reykjavík, Iceland; and my hometown, Portland, OR.