I am a filmmaker, media artist, and scholar recognized for pioneering the online video essay and the “desktop documentary” format. Over the past two decades, I have produced nearly 400 video essays exploring new ways of thinking about film, media, and digital images. My works—including Transformers: The Premake and my recent feature Afterlives—have screened at venues such as the Museum of Modern Art, the Berlinale, Rotterdam, DocLisboa, and the BFI London Film Festival.
Since 2022, I have served as the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). In this role I lead teaching, research, and public initiatives that explore emerging forms of audiovisual culture. I also direct the Swiss National Science Foundation research project The Video Essay: Memories, Ecologies, Bodies, which investigates how videographic practices can generate new modes of knowledge, critique, and artistic expression.