https://www.kaijasii.com/home daily 1.0 2023-09-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1694009200878-UOPNJL0XHYKVY8KUOFAB/Copy+of+008_Feet+in+Water-Head+on+Fire_Costume+Against+Mountain.jpeg Home - PICTURE EDITING https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1694009329506-OQDB03FDQK91STO8HL79/hemlock7.png Home - SOUND WORK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555376580990-CPN6TB1XUJZWRXU7NR6G/HANSU+SOLO+02_feet.jpg Home - COLLABORATIONS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555037959629-2RW5SFNORB7XTELZ5WP1/IMG_2871.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555040588954-B7DHP6H9R1X9P6BH1MEG/IMG_2871.jpg Home https://www.kaijasii.com/collaborations daily 0.75 2019-04-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555019117196-M1BUY812DX8E0ZG3XKC9/IMG_2871.jpg Collaborations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555032620053-PL0RGYWKCS4OXB7G0W28/HANSU+SOLO+01_outside.jpg Collaborations - HANSU SOLO Documentary Short | 2014 | 7:53 | Co-created with Emily Collins Combining a phone conversation with abstract and animated visuals, Hansu Solo is an intimate portrait of a woman spending her days in an assisted living home and how she thinks about the passing of time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555033234069-XYKWKUFDW94IXDIU1PYY/Butter+Solution+4.png Collaborations - THE BUTTER SOLUTION Documentary Short | 2016 | 3:35 | Co-created with Emily Collins A Faroese Sea Captain tells an unlikely tale of ingenuity to retrieve lost items from the ocean floor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555018716573-3EDTE0T4HC3TL0MHKL0F/America+is+my+Home.png Collaborations - AMERICA IS MY HOME– Day #8 of the Trump Administration Observational Documentary Short | 2017| 3:55 | Created while part of the Meerkat Media Collective from 2016-2018 inclusive. Part of the series Newsreels from the Resistance series. From the Meerkat website: “The newsreel project employs Meerkat’s award-winning documentary style to provide local and emotional insight into the unprecedented resistance emerging against America’s ruling political regime. Cinematic and compelling, these reports are uniquely independent from the 24-hour news cycle – and delivered just as quickly.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555033647174-BL58Z3UH9VQAWP71JKNI/Faster+Mothra.png Collaborations - FASTER MOTHRA Music Video | 2014 | 3:15 | Collaboration with Sauna Music A meditative look at the New York City Marathon in mesmerizing flashes of neon. https://www.kaijasii.com/picture-editing daily 0.75 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555037696412-94VGAW9CE0BJXD3J70YI/Kaija_BG.jpg Picture Editing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1745604989457-6ANXITO7XTIWBDHZZGSF/25Years_TPW_5.JPG Picture Editing - twenty-five years swayed between our teeth 2 channel video installation, 5.1 sound | 20 min. loop | dir. Sharlene Bamboat | 2025 | Editor, Sound Design twenty-five years swayed between our teeth is a sound and moving-image installation that extends the themes and aesthetic strategies first explored in Sharlene Bamboat’s single-channel film Both, Instrument & Sound (2024). The installation delves into the complexities of solidarity, friendship, and sonic tension, offering a polyphonic encounter that asks how people are coping today under the weight of genocide, fascism and accelerating climate catastrophe. Premiere: Gallery TPW April/May 2025 as part of Images Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1745605280772-CAVQ0FOTG2SDQ0UHU0S8/A-STONES-THROW-FID.jpeg Picture Editing - a stone's throw Experimental mid-length documentary | 40 mins. | dir. Razan Al Salah | 2024 | Editor, Sound Design Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice from both land and labor, from Haifa to Beirut to a Gulf offshore oil platform. A Stone’s Throw rehearses a history of the Palestinian resistance when in 1936 the oil laborers of Haifa blew up a BP pipeline. Screenings: FID Marseille, Doc Lisboa, Prismatic Ground, RIDM, Singapore International Film Festival, Olhar de Cinema, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Punto de Vista, BlackStar Film Festival, Dokufest, Open City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1745432017075-OKBJHVTL474L8PHFBQUL/image-asset.jpeg Picture Editing - BOTH, INSTRUMENT & SOUND Medium Length experimental documentary | 38 min. | dir. Sharlene Bamboat | 16mm, 8mm 5.1 sound | 2024 | Editor, Sound Design Both, Instrument & Sound employs tension as an aesthetic strategy, to explore solidarity, collective struggle, and the transformation of these values under neoliberalism. The film follows the life of Tony over 3 years as he describes his process of political activism from the 1970s onwards, which cannot be disentangled from his friendships and his lovers. Premiere: Prismatic Ground. Screened: MOCA Toronto: Greater Toronto Art 2024, Mix NYC, RIDM, Rewire Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1694007441389-FPMJOM4I6EFH5UJLSJCY/Copy+of+008_Feet+in+Water-Head+on+Fire_Costume+Against+Mountain.jpeg Picture Editing - FEET IN WATER, HEAD ON FIRE Feature Documentrary | 90 Min | 16mm - DCP dir. Terra Long | 2023 | Co-Editor Along the San Andreas fault line in Southern California, Indigenous palm trees and date palms imported from the Middle East flourish. The people who tend to them reflect a landscape of frictions and affections shaped over generations by agriculture, luxury real estate, and border politics. Like the infinity storytelling of The 1001 Nights, stories fold into dreams and back into stories, a constellation of voices settle over mountains and into the earth. Intertwining color 16mm with textural black and white film hand processed with the dates leftover from harvest and plants native to the valley Feet in Water, Head on Fire is a sensory, polyvocal evocation of place. Premiere: True/False Film Festival. Screenings: MoMI First Look, Hot Docs, DOXA, DokuFest, Black Canvas Film Festival, Dok Leipzig, Unorthodocs Wexner Center, IDFA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1694007890041-LIV4EO6SOMSEMELR4GOR/JimonMarshes1.jpg Picture Editing - CELESTIAL QUEER: THE LIFE, WORK AND WONDER OF JAMES MACSWAIN Feature Documentary | 72 mins | dir. Sue Johnson, Eryn Foster | 2023 | Editor Celestial Queer documents the life and work of animator, activist and artist Jim MacSwain. For over 40 years, MacSwain has been making otherworldly imagery full of whimsy, humour, politics and beauty. Through observational adventures, archival footage and rarely seen works, Celestial Queer illustrates the impact and contributions of this singular artist. Premiere: Atlantic International Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1694007834340-DS4SRVAGAFSHE71GAO31/The%2BWork_Poster.jpg Picture Editing - THE WORK Feature Documentary | 92 mins | 2022 | dir. Daniel MacIvor | Picture Editor, Producer Part theatrical adaptation, part road trip The Work elasticizes time and truth to delve into the nature of storytelling, depression and grief, finally emerging as a tender portrait of a unique friendship. Premiere: FIN Atlantic International Film Festival, September 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1664207838496-4F1ZN4CK0ZYH07K6C47W/0830-Signal_and_Noise_Movie_poster-laurels.jpeg Picture Editing - SIGNAL AND NOISE Documentary Short | 13 mins | 2022 | dir. Katie Mathews and Jess Shane | Produced in collaboration with Mansoor Adayfi | Picture Editor What are the sounds of Guantánamo Bay Detention Center? In 2015, poet Jordan Scott set out to record the ambient sounds of the prison as a means of bypassing its strict media censorship rules. Today, former detainee, Mansoor Adayfi, recalls how sound shaped his experiences there— both of torture and of hope. The year of the 20th anniversary of the prison, Scott’s field recordings and Adayfi’s memories come together to create a visceral new landscape of this notoriously secret place. Premiere: Prismatic Ground Film Festival. Screenings: Mimesis Film Festival, Third Horizon Film Festival, Nashville Film Festival, Hot Springs Film Festival, Antimatter Film Festival, New Orleans Film Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1664207717626-0FW5TF1GERF7WWWC4RSF/POSTER_OPENWATERhorizontalLaurels.jpeg Picture Editing - OPEN WATER Documentary Short | 19 mins | 2020 | Picture and Sound Editor | dir. Kalli Anderson Open Water is a film about what it feels like to swim across the largest freshwater lake in the world. It follows Marilyn Korzekwa, a 61-year-old open-water swimmer, as she attempts to be the first person ever to complete a crossing of the eastern end of Lake Superior, from Michigan, USA to Ontario, Canada. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1592239283291-IRSHJ5MCYZWEAHJPL7XG/David+Harvey+in+the+city_still.png Picture Editing - DAVID HARVEY AND THE CITY Documentary Short | 2019 | 12:36 | dir. Brett Story An Antipode Foundation film | Cinematography by Martin DiCicco and Derek Howard | Edited by Kaija Siirala and Brett Story |Sound by Jeff Burke and Pacho Velez |Additional interviews Samuel Stein and Sarah Friedland | Music by Sauna Music https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555036248804-0F7OGGG9OHYFLMYXVNNM/fragments.jpg Picture Editing - WE BECAME FRAGMENTS Documentary Short | 2018 | 12:37 | dir. Luisa Conlon, Lacy Jane Roberts, Hanna Miller A New York Times Op-Doc about a young Syrian refugee coming of age in Winnipeg. Official Selection: Camden International Film Festival, DOC NYC, SFFilm Doc Stories. 2018 IDA Awards nominee. Winner Best Documentary - LA Shorts International Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555036355760-17RBNYNQ5OR2UDAQQIX9/Bird+City+Lights.jpg Picture Editing - BIRD CITY LIGHTS Documentary Short | 2017 | 16:57 | dir. Zachary Finkelstein and Kalli Anderson An estimated one million migratory birds slam into Toronto’s glass buildings every year. Bird City Lights follows a day in the life of a bird rescuer as she scours the sidewalks, nooks and crannies of the financial district for fallen birds in the early hours of the morning. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555036958349-MBCK9LYZ26UUVVGQALOF/JazzLoft_Film_Marquee.png Picture Editing - THE JAZZ LOFT ACCORDING TO W. EUGENE SMITH Documentary Feature | 2017 | 87 mins | dir. Sarah Fishko | Assistant Editor Art, obsession and anxiety permeate a dilapidated Manhattan loft building in Mid-century: The first movie to use photographer W. Eugene Smith's massive, fly-on-the-wall archive of photos and audio tapes documenting the likes of jazz greats Thelonious Monk, Zoot Sims, Jimmy Giuffre, Hall Overton and others at work and play in the Sixth Avenue wreck that was Smith's home and studio from 1957 through the '60s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555037454145-1I65IKOLC2WT7ZCDO26B/No+Easy+Walk.png Picture Editing - NO EASY WALK TO FREEDOM Documentary Feature | 2014 | 92 mins | dir. Nancy Nicol https://www.kaijasii.com/sound daily 0.75 2025-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555037825947-VVYU6SJA8BIGPMQ24TGG/IMG_2871.jpg Sound Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1745606356057-XDG15KOA1NKZSWWD4ETX/Toad_23.jpg Sound Design - SOME THOUGHTS ON THE COMMON TOAD Short Documentary | 11 mins | dir. G. Anthony Svatek | Sound Design A cine-collage manifesto in defense of beauty amidst political cynicism and environmental alienation. Based on the essay by George Orwell and read by Tilda Swinton. Screenings: DOXA, Big Sky Film Festival, Aeon publication. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1745606245775-NNTX6UN5DNK1FKB4NP0H/LOTSS_Poster_112524.png Sound Design - LIGHT OF THE SETTING SUN Feature documentary | 74 mins | dir. Vicky Du | 2024 | Sound Design, Additional Editing A Taiwanese-American filmmaker questions her family’s silence around the cycles of violence that have persisted since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949. Light of the Setting Sun is a poetic family portrait of what’s been left unsaid. Premiere: Full Frame. Screenings: IDFA, CAAMFEST, San Diego Asian Film Festival, EIDF, DCTV Firehouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1694008754243-BXSI9GAD5PQSGHULKKG9/HBTT_still+of+fountain.jpeg Sound Design - HOLDING BACK THE TIDE Feature Documentary | 81 mins. | dir. Emily Packer | Sound Design Ghosts of over-farmed oysters haunt New York City, the former oyster capital of the world, with cautionary tales of overconsumption. Meanwhile, environmental hopefuls work to repopulate these queer heroes. This experimental hybrid documentary explores their dated symbolism as high-class aphrodisiacs, celebrating their role filtering the waterways and protecting our coastlines. Preview screening: Mimesis Documentary Festival, 2023. Premiere: DocNYC, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1698418689844-KAFU6E2H5VOS3BVUUP8V/image-asset.png Sound Design - your umbilical cord... Sarah Friedland, creator, neon sculpture and sound installation | Sound Editor and Design “Your umbilical cord is cut twice, once when you are born and once when your mother dies.” From Sarah: “The title of this work comes from a saying that my mother told me in reference to her own mother’s death, even though she adamantly denies ever saying it. Using a conversation that I recorded between my mother, sister, and me as the backbone, this neon light and sound installation is an intimate and electric portrait of the women in my family and our complex dynamics around motherhood, infertility, adoption, abuse, love and death.” First Showing: MC Gallery, NYC, October 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1694008393897-OYYNUQ2QJ74OF60NJ1HU/Lyd_AnimatedEissa.png Sound Design - LYD Feature Documentary | 78 mins | dir. Rami Younis, Sarah Ema Friedland | Sound Design, animations This feature-length, sci-fi documentary shares multiple pasts, presents, and futures of the city of Lyd in Palestine/Israel. From the perspective of the city herself, voiced by Palestinian actress Maisa Abd Elhadi, the viewer is guided through the lifespan of a five-thousand-year-old city and its residents. Premiere: Amman International Film Festival, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1664231142728-RTBS7EAGUKKZPW37ZQBM/Screen+Shot+2022-09-26+at+11.43.19+AM.png Sound Design - "When I die, bury me in a hemlock coffin so that I go to hell snapping." 16mm, Direct Animation on Film and Digital Animation | 2022| 8 mins| dir. Sarah Friedland | Sound Design A Hemlock forest in Western Massachusetts that is dying due to the Woolly Adelgid beetle infestation tells a larger story about climate collapse and the interconnections between the natural and the built environments. Premiere: Mimesis Documentary Festival, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1694008072719-0H3JNR50VIP491TYUSK7/magical+cloak+mist+.jpg Sound Design - FREYA Short Documentary | 22 mins. | dir. Elisa Gonzalez | Sound Design Freya connects elements in the animal world and the practice of falconry to experiences of mothering, pregnancy and loss. Screenings: Pleasure Dome, 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1647017958867-2EBGO9Y72D8IP4T1AOCZ/Weather+report.jpeg Sound Design - HELICOPTER AND CANOE Audio Piece | 2022 | 9.5 mins First appeared on BBC 4’s Short Cuts as part of the episode, Weather Report. A blend of multigenerational voices weave together the story of my mummi's death 25 years later. A mixture of humour, intensity, intimacy that investigates the way memory both fogs and solidifies over time for the individual and the collective. Thank you to Kari Siirala, Bailey Renshaw, Maarit Siirala, Gord Smith, Micah Smith and Casey King for sharing their memories of the trip. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1664207902256-Y8QRYTH0RKHDQQSODAEF/switching%2Bqueens.jpg Sound Design - SWITCHING QUEEN(S): BACK ALLEY GALAXIES Audio Walk | 2021 | 60 mins | Sound design, Mixing Switching Queen(s): Back Alley Galaxies is the first audio tour of b current Performing Arts' Wheel of the Year Walks. Through soundscapes of words, everyday life, music, and poetry, you will meet fictionalized and real humans in a sharing of blended time and space, transmutation between so-called human and animal species, entities, and spirits. While you move through the lands on which the neighbourhood of Parkdale stands, the Switch Collective will interrogate the challenges -- stemming from colonialism, capitalism, gentrification -- the area and its inhabitants face, and the manifest resilience bursting forth from all of the cracks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1647019523067-RHU285NL6NGIWAGC7CJU/MOONLIGHT.jpeg Sound Design - THE NIGHT SWIMMER Audio Piece | 2021 | 5 mins |Co-produced with Kalli Anderson First appeared on BBC 4’s Short Cuts for the episode Moonlight. Also played as part of On Air Fest, Audire, Radio Olimpia, and was a finalist for Best Documentary short as part of the 2021 Third Coast/Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1602780231215-10JNGQTHOJCVFSTQPGYC/Inaccordance_stills_1.jpg Sound Design - IN ACCORDANCE WITH Hybrid Documentary Short | 2020 | 7 min. Directed and Produced by Sarah Ema Friedland and Alessandra Lacorazza, in co-production with the Meerkat Media Collective | sound design At a border check point, pregnant people are forced to endure invasive and emotionally abusive measures in order to get an abortion. The dialogue in this film is taken verbatim from State-mandated anti-choice materials, and imagines a world in which the territory of the body and the territory of the nation are collapsed into one space. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1616166953840-BUWW8DG8L0USNW4D7BUQ/Screen+Shot+2021-03-19+at+11.15.28+AM.png Sound Design - THE WHELMING SEA Documentary Short | 2020 | Sound Design | dir. by Sean Hanley. Three animal lives entangle at the edge of the sea. Horseshoe crabs spawn on eroded urban beaches, migrating shorebirds seek sustenance at a midpoint, and humans attempt to make a difference in this age of mass extinction. Premiere: 2020 Imagine Science Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1585405398350-KMOKTYY9CZ5TJSDEH2XM/RB+web-438.jpg Sound Design - HAMINA, FINLAND Audio Piece | 2019 | 10 mins | commissioned by constellations for Resonant Bodies installation and podcast Where is the cloud located on earth? Hamina, Finland imagines a sauna experience where seawater travels to cool immense google data servers and then evaporates into steam as bodies heat up in a neighbouring sauna. image by Yuula Benivolski https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1616166328645-797P1ZH2HR5DH6Q2IBZ1/IMG_0017.jpeg Sound Design - a conversation Audio Piece | 2018 | 15 mins | For constellations audio, a series of tangential associations as three people meditate on light and dark and the way they read the environment around them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555038613442-HKH17V3VPFP4RV85EHXQ/Mami.jpg Sound Design - MAMI Narrative Short | 2018 | 11 mins | dir. Alessandra Lacorazza | Sound Design As Carolina's sense of isolation grows so does her anger at her mother for emotionally anchoring her to their apartment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c8acc3d01232c882d8dda57/1555039254389-W5RYTPZA0VLGXEAT4S4Y/Girls+and+Boys.png Sound Design - GIRLS AND BOYS Documentary Short | 2016 | 14 mins | dir. Tomasz Gubernat | Sound Recordist, Designer, Mix Girls and Boys is an observational portrait of a woman in Brooklyn, seemingly alone in her struggle to teach a group of playful, young students who are learning the basics of couple’s dancing in the Polish Folk tradition. 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