JENNA DORIAN
WHAT IS GOING, 2025 (short)
Writer/Director
An unnamed person finds a magic trunk that teleports objects and people to them. What is Going is a queer contribution to surreal silent cinema exploring liminal space, compulsion, the pain of letting go, and the unresolved anguish of being let go of.
​Director Statement
Leaving someone, being left by someone, it jumbles grammar and speech and movement. Makes us frantic until we have nothing left but to re-mother ourselves with whatever remains. Two characters are moving away from each other and toward each other. And neither posture feels quite right — a tug of war when there should be communion and visa versa. I think we do this all throughout life with people and objects. We create rituals and intimacies to continue on. And this piece plays with it all.​
​DUST TO LIGHT, 2023 (short) WATCH NOW
Writer/Director
When an estranged daughter packs up her late father’s home, an eerie wind lures her to a mysterious locked door.
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Director Statement
Ambiguous loss is a curious thing. Like a confrontation of shadows. Opaque, borderless memories that somehow prick to the touch. A hollow that creaks when the wind blows. This project was born from a curiosity to explore the tension and nuance of encountering a person for the first time through the everyday objects they've left behind: the handles of their drawers, the worn armrests of a chair, the lube in the nightstand, the dental floss in the waste basket. Touching a fingerprint is nothing like holding a hand. And still, there is intimacy to be had in the smudge on a pair of reading glasses.
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