ROLE

DIRECTOR

GENRE

EXPERIMENTAL

YEAR

2024

SCREENINGS

SXSW,
Viennale

Glass Hours is a 22-minute experimental film composed entirely from footage shot inside glass structures — a greenhouse, an office atrium, an empty aquarium, a hospital corridor. The project began as a study of refraction and became something closer to an essay on visibility: what it means to be seen through a surface, and what the surface withholds.

There is no narrative in the conventional sense. Instead, the film moves associatively — connections between spaces are established through light behavior, repeated gesture, and a spatial score composed specifically for the film by a collaborating sound artist. Each environment was shot at a different hour of the day to track how glass holds and transforms natural light across time.

Themes

• Transparency and its illusions
• The architecture of surveillance and care
• Light as both medium and subject

Reception

Premiered in the Experimental Shorts program at SXSW 2024 and subsequently screened at the Viennale. Glass Hours was acquired by the International Short Film Archive and described by Sight & Sound as “a rigorously conceived meditation on transparency — visually immaculate and quietly unsettling.”