The 30-minute essay film Brute Force [Exhibition Cut] (2025) uncovers digital technologies’ hidden infrastructures; in three chapters, it traces the instruments for acquiring images and data, the ecological costs of their processing, and the geological traces they leave behind. Set among the salt lakes and salt deserts of Utah and California, the film interprets salt as an archive of water’s absence—a material index of climate change and resource depletion—and their unequal distribution.

The three-channel video installation Valley of the Heart’s Delight expands this exploration by the added dimension of materiality, surface, and power. Close-ups of the earth’s layers, sand, and crushed shells—filmed with an industrial robotic arm—make reference to the indigenous Ohlone people’s shellmounds, which today lie buried under the headquarters of global technology companies.