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Blurring the lines between editing exercise and home movie, This Is Not a Camera Test is a leap of faith into the unknown, exploring the anxieties and elations of getting behind a camera.

A hand-me-down camcorder gifted at graduation set into motion a year’s worth of stray sights and sounds, finally corralled together during one feverish week.

“Communicates a way of seeing the world that only someone in love with film can. Every shadow is a vignette, every passerby a critical component of the frame.”

“Shares a very distinct commonality with some of the greatest debuts in narrative film: the threshold.”

“An excellent approach to the fear of taking that first step.”

“Love that this exists! Maybe I oughta stop leaving the first page of my sketchbooks blank.”