Selected Works
Each project begins with a fragment: an image, a recording, a gesture, a historical trace. Film becomes the instrument through which these fragments reorganise themselves into movement. What follows is a process of accumulation: through montage, sound, performance and time.
Mesa Verde (2026)
SHORT DOC | DIR: CHRISTIAN ROSSIPALBehind the walls of one of ICE’s detention centers in California sits former film student Mohamad X. With the help of director Christian Rossipal, he tells the story of a hunger strike in a poetic documentary about life behind the agency’s bars.
Synopsis
In a California detention center, former film student Mohamed X reflects on his four-year confinement. Blocked from filming inside the opaque system, he recounts organizing a labor strike against $1 daily pay and a brutalized hunger strike, revealing the unimaginable realities of immigration detention.
The architecture of detention offers an entry point, while readings by Honduran poet Claudia Torres weaves Mohamed’s story into a larger history and web of people affected by the modern U.S. border regime, stretching back decades. While recent, highly-publicized events involving ICE appear exceptionally violent, they are part of a longer history and a permanent state of exception.
Mesa Verde is a moving documentary that quietly exposes neglect, abuse of power, and the extinguishing of life.
