Video
Check out some of the videos I have worked on, from exhibition previews to interviews with prominent historians.
Series
Here are some of the series I’ve created.
Inside the Robert A. Caro Archive
Expert Excerpts
Annual Highlights Sizzle Reels
Bob Hope & WWII
Promotion videos
These videos are commercial length and were often used as broadcast ads on WNET, featured on websites, social media, and even on Times Square billboards.
Discover Something New
Footage shot by Tom McNamara and voiceover by Grace Angela Henry.
Bill Graham and the Rock & Roll Revolution
Voiceover by Dan Conroy.
Paul Revere Beyond Midnight
Superheroes in Gotham
Times Square outdoor ad.
Black Citizenship in the Age of Jim Crow
Hudson Rising
Had fun with the audio for this one using bricolage and found sound.
New 4th Floor
The Art and Whimsy of Mo Willems
Times Square outdoor ad.
Exhibition Videos
Crafting Freedom: The Life and Legacy of Free Black Potter Thomas W. Commeraw
This video played in the exhibition on a loop. The script was written by curators Margi Hofer and Allison Robinson, contemporary Brooklyn artist Kyle Lee is featured giving a demonstration on a potters wheel, and the footage shot was by Tom McNamara.
Remembering 9/11
Made to commemorate the anniversary of September 11. The photo montage from the exhibition collection “this is new york” is set to the Pulitzer Prize winning "On the Transmigration of Souls" composition by John Adams, performed by the New York Philharmonic.
The Turtle & the Acorn with Duke Riley
One of the first videos I made for New-York Historical for the exhibition The Battle of Brooklyn, this was mostly shot on phones and an older model digital camera. Claire Lanier filmed the gallery interview with Duke Riley.
Russell Shorto discusses “New York Before New York: The Castello Plan of New Amsterdam”
Russell Shorto, author of Island at the Center of the World, discusses an exhibition he curated at The New York Historical. Anna Belle Peevey was the videographer.