Sculpture Study is a fine art film series I made for a private New England art collector to accompany a set of rare cast iron sculptures dating to the Middle Ages. As the collection travels the country to be shown at museums and institutions, these films screen right alongside the pieces — giving visitors a closer, moving‑image look at details that are hard to take in from behind glass.
Objects like these are almost impossible to appreciate standing still. The series exists to show what a static display case can't: the lobster's arms moving, the fountain running, the light catching gold and iron the way it was meant to.
I built the team, designed the shoot, and then shot and edited the films myself — carrying each one from concept through to the finished cut. Lighting metal this reflective, and shooting moving parts and running water so they read as clearly on screen as they do in the room, took a plan and a crew I could trust. Owning both the camera and the edit meant every setup was built with the final piece already in mind.
Seeing my work exhibited beside the art itself, in museums across the country, is one of the credits I'm proudest of.
The companion study focuses on the cast iron lobster and its fully articulating arms — a piece best understood in motion.
From single objects to whole collections, I make fine‑art and exhibition films that hold up beside the work itself — shot and cut across New England and New York.
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