As one
An audio-visual voicemail crafted for the filmmaker’s grandmother nine months after her passing. The filmmaker speaks on the nature of time, memory, and how c-ptsd obscures their grasp of reality.
Visualizing their loose sense of time, the filmmaker shoots, reshoots, and manipulates footage using consumer video cameras released a decade apart. This is a collaboration between the filmmaker, their brother who composed the score, and their grandmother, posthumously.
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Screenings:
2025 - Sunrise Film Festival. Lowestoft, Suffolk, U.K. (U.K. Premiere)
2025 - Museum of Moving Image in the Marvels of Media Exhibition: The Adventure of Nature and the Senses. New York, United States. (North American Premiere)
2024 - MikroFAF Festival. Belgrade, Serbia. (World Premiere)
“Must I Ask?”
“Must I Ask?” is a collection of multimedia artworks serving as a visual protest, a reimagining of the institutional demands to conform and flatten sick, Disabled personhoods in order to be granted equitable care and access.
These works feature deconstructed medical forms and government applications for accommodations from the artist’s personal archives.
Two of these works were published in FEELS, issue 23: Disability.
Rivky
A video artwork in which a filmmaker with c-ptsd aims to understand their childhood through newly discovered home videos. The footage is severely abstracted with abstract animation and rotoscoping sparsely overlaid—a fresh eye working to make sense of a blurred memory. The sound from the original clips are distorted which come together with audio from other home videos and outside sources to create a haunting soundscape.
“Rivky” is the filmmaker's childhood nickname—now retired.
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RestFest Film Festival
a festival & online gathering space created by/for Disabled, Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill, and/or mad community.
Attendee Testimonials
“RestFest was a truly remarkable experience that brought our community together in such a meaningful way. The festival's thoughtful approach to meeting us exactly where we are—in terms of energy, capacity, and accessibility—created an environment where we could all feel inspired, encouraged, and valued. It was inspiring to witness and be part of a space where disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, Deaf, blind, and mad creatives could share their work and connect with one another in ways that honored our individual and collective needs. RestFest was a beautiful reminder of the power of community when we prioritize care and inclusion.” - Aubree Penney, Curator @photaubreephy
“Scrumptious opportunity to feel; witness, and share in the beauty of crip art practices.” - Crip Storyteller
“A caringly programmed festival that has rapidly become The Event to yearly look forward to.” - excited laptop-in-bed cinemagoer
“Amazing festival, superb selection, brilliantly organised and it has introduced me to loads of new and exciting artists, so I'm chuffed with this discover and I'll definitely be heading back to RestFest next year” - Ollie Godwin, artist in the U.K. @thereisnogodwin
Carry me in
A non-narrative 16mm personal essay film tracking the filmmaker’s connection with insects - from their childhood fascination to their misdiagnosis of late-stage Lyme Disease as a young adult.
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Screened at BFI Future Film Festival (United Kingdom), Brussels Independent Film Festival (Belgium), CineYouth Festival hosted by Chicago International Film Festival (United States), and FIN Kids Stream Festival hosted by Atlantic International Film Festival (Canada).
Nominated for Best Experimental Film & Best Documentary at BFI Future Film Festival.
Breakings
As my illnesses have progressed, I have searched for ways of making that suit my new states of being. This current collection comes directly out of this exploration, with these works allowing me to break the artmaking process into steps that feel manageable at the different, everchanging physical and mental states I find myself in. The pieces begin as small watercolor paintings and then take on new lives digitally, being broken apart and reconfigured to become something new. This multi-step, multimedia process brings the element of time into the static works, making visible a form of living on Crip Time.
Breakings: Tactility Series
During a moment of physical and mental energy, the “Breakings” series took on tactility by, rather than digital processes, breaking down and reconstructing the watercolor paintings with scissors, knives, and adhesives.
More Static Artworks
Two of these works were published in Lassitude Zine, issue 2, archived in Wellcome Collection Museum catalog & Oxford Brookes University, and one in Zeniada Magazine.
“In my hands”
In 2020, I began making these knitted tapestries as a response to my inability to paint due to spacial limitations and energy-limiting conditions. The act of knitting brought on a meditative state, engaging my Crip body with softness. In contrast, however, the practice also conjured memories of childhood gender dysphoria.
Shown in “Prayers for the Pandemic” exhibition at Drawing Rooms @drawingrooms_jc and published in the exhibition’s online or print catalogs.
How to Care for Strangers
In this fantasy, coming-of-age short film, two strangers are bound to one another in a childlike dreamworld and forced to make an active choice to stay frozen in time or finally move forward.
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Screened Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival & Los Angeles International Underground Festival.
Winner of best in categories at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival and Los Angeles International Underground Film Festival.
Film Work Archives
More films to be added here.
Bec (they/them) is a Crip, mad, Autistic+ADHDer making art and bringing folks together.
The nature of their art practice is shaped by their bodymind’s everchanging, unpredictable states. They are often hyper-focused & forgetful of their existence, making, studying, or organizing things while beneath a laptop & a hard drive or with their hands stained by charcoal & surrounded by paints (always with cats in-view). Their recent filmmaking practice has included manipulating/abstracting/deconstructing footage from public archives, their childhood, and their own archive of footage stored in a folder they’ve labeled “misc,” such as with As one. They’ll collect footage when they can, either with vintage digital cameras, their phone, or on 16mm & super 8 whenever possible. They spend much of their time lovingly organizing gentle, virtual Crip gathering spaces around art & film & care & rest: RestFest Film Festival.
Screenings of their films include BFI Future Film Festival (Nominated for Best Documentary and Best Experimental Film; London, U.K.), Sunrise Film Festival (Lowestoft, Suffolk, U.K.), Brussels Independent Film Festival (Brussels, Belgium), Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival (Winning Best College Long Narrative; Florida, U.S.), CineYouth Festival hosted by Chicago International Film Festival (Illinois, U.S.), Los Angeles International Underground Festival (Winning Best Student Film, California, U.S.), MikroFAF (Belgrade, Serbia), FIN Kids Stream Festival hosted by Atlantic International Film Festival (Nationwide, Canada), MICA Film and Animation Festival (Maryland, U.S.) among others. Group exhibitions include Marvels of Media Exhibition: The Adventure of Nature and the Senses (Museum of Moving Image; NYC, U.S.), Horizons Design + Art Exhibition (Barry Gallery; Virginia, U.S.), PRAYERS FOR THE PANDEMIC; PRAYERS FOR PROGRESS (Drawing Rooms; New Jersey, U.S.), [REDACTED TITLE]* (Chelsea College of Art; London, U.K.). Their artwork has been published in Zeniada Magazine, Wishbone Words Magazine, and Lassitude Zine (now part of Wellcome Collection Museum and Oxford Brooks University libraries; London & Oxford, U.K.). They hold a B.A. in Film & Media Studies with a minor in Visual Arts from Johns Hopkins University. During their studies, they spent a semester on exchange at Chelsea College of Art (UAL) in their B.A. Fine Art program and became a visiting student in the MICA and NYU Arts Departments.
Bec is the Founder & Festival Director of RestFest Film Festival, a film festival & online gathering space created by/for Disabled, Deaf, chronically ill, neurodivergent, mentally ill, and/or mad community worldwide.