“I like to think I have cyborg upgrades.” She’s a biohacker with three microchip implants. I meet up with Amie Dansby as she gets a new one installed and learn more about why she has microchip implants.
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The Last Days of an Abortion Clinic
It was the last abortion clinic in Mississippi. After Roe v. Wade was overturned, I documented the last days of the “Pink House” with the clinic defenders.
Tengefu
Tengefu is the Swahili word for “protected marine area.” Abubakar spends his days dreaming about corals. When helping his daughter with math homework, they add and subtract corals. He is the former chair of the Beach Management Unit and helped start the reef restoration program on Wasini Island in Southeast Kenya. He believes the corals…
The Musty Boyz: Inside Minneapolis Takeover Scene
“I’m just going to go out and literally just shred the f— out of my tires.” Filmmaker Jessey Dearing takes you to the Minneapolis takeover scene, where large crowds gather for car meet ups spinning and drifting their cars … until the police show up.
Inside a Crypto Dating Scam
They matched on a dating app. He said he liked cryptocurrency … And scammed her out of $400,000. This two part doc explores a crypto scam of a young woman and how she was swindled. Part 1 Part 2
Cyberpunk Fashion
“Technology is fun for a little bit and then it’s no longer fun.” Meet the surveillance disrupters: Skitch is a maker of eyewear that defies facial recognition. Leo Selvaggio is an artist who has sacrificed his own identity to resist surveillance. Kate Bertash designs clothes that floods license plate readers with fake data. For Brut,…
Land Back: The Battle for Fairy Creek
“It feels like we’re in a war quite often at Fairy Creek. Like we’re in this war of the woods,” said Shy-Anne Gunville. In a remote rainforest at the southern tip of Vancouver Island, British Columbia, land defenders like Gunville are putting their bodies on the line to stop the logging of centuries-old trees.
A Well Deserved Vacation
This short documentary was produced while I was working with The Boston Globe during the summer of 2011. Interviews, video and photography, and editing by Jessey Dearing.
Dreams of American Healthcare
Even after passing health reform legislation, heated debate continues around the country about whether we should pay for others’ health care. While it is too soon to see the effects that the legislation will have on this country, it is clear that the current system is not helping those in need. Medicare, Medicaid and Disability…
Rent Memories or O Brother, Where Art Thou?
This is a personal story that was originally produced for an autobiographical film assignment while taking an experimental film course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I cannot classify this as a journalism or editorial piece, because it is my own story, in which case my storytelling cannot possibly be objective. Scripting,…
Nature of Man
This is another project I created for an experimental film course at UNC-Chapel Hill. Each video clip is triggered by a different sound from the music. The eight different scenes play out a different consequence of the interaction of nature and man. All but the center video clip were taken from YouTube indicated at the…
Forever Family
Rebecca and her husband, Randal, always knew they wanted to be a foster family, even with three birth children of their own. Two weeks after becoming certified as foster parents in November 2005, they had two children placed in their home. They decided to adopt the children and have since, adopted a third child. “All…