My work ranges from documentary filmmaking to experimental video, branded content for small businesses, organizations, and artists, dance performance documentation, social media content, music videos, and narrative storytelling. If you’re looking for something specific and don’t see it represented here, please reach out. I’d be happy to connect and send an example directly.
Heart Milk: Live in the Cave
Steph Plant and friends sing the four songs on her EP, Heart Milk, in the Piasa cave in Alton, IL.
Steph opened the invitation to my full creative expression. Filmed and edited by me and paired with audio recorded by Adam Long, the cave shapes the experience from every angle. Through prisms, layered imagery, and shifting natural light, there is a dreamlike, psychedelic, immersive visual world, while Adam’s expertise captures the natural echo and depth of the space. The result is earthy, resonant, and emotionally alive.
Constantinos
Constantinos is a portrait of a 95-year-old Greek man reflecting on the great loves of his life: his homeland, his architectural legacy, and above all, his late wife, Maria. Through intimate interviews, archival photos, animations, and humanistic observation, the film moves between memory-coated Athens to present day St. Louis. At once personal and universal, Constantinos honors the immigrant journey and pursuit of higher education. In the wisdom of his final years, Constantinos reminds us that no matter what we build, it is love that truly remains with us.
Artists Build: 10 Years of The Luminary on Cherokee Street
A docu-short highlighting the history of The Luminary, an artist-run, community-centric art gallery, while reflecting on its current role as a thriving hub for experimental art and collective impact.
SO(U)L
SO(U)L is a project which began from a dream and found its interpretation through its intuitive creation with collaborators Melissa June and Lilja Rose Michaud. It invites you to step into the world of feeling, as it unionizes the conscious and unconscious through image, sound, and movement.
Woolgathering
Woolgathering is an international award winning experimental film featured in over 10 film festivals around the world. This hallucinatory dreamscape was co-created with Bethany Clemens.
HEC TV: Pulitzer Arts Foundation 2025
Showcasing the 2025 spring exhibitions at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation, this Higher Education Channel segment is one of the many videos Emma has produced, shot, and edited.
Depths (of knowing)
This is an original piece created for Fulcrum, a one night only event at The Luminary art gallery. Depths (of knowing) is an expression of the deep trust needed to take leaps of faith. Sound score created live as an a/v collaboration with Tory Starbuck.
Hibiscus Roselle
Plant identification video for Flourish Farmstead’s online herbalism school program. This is from a series of videos that teaches students how to identify various plants, what their medicinal uses are, and how to grow them yourself.
Dye Day
Event coverage from Black Rat Farm’s dye day. An ephemeral event of naturally dyeing scarves with marigolds.
Faith Over Fear
A 2022 profile piece on, Muhammad “Mvstermind” Austin highlighting his journey as an artist on the come up in St. Louis.
Driving Louise
A short film about navigating identity and reconciling the past directed by Isaac Knopf and shot by Emma Bright.
Beloved Community
A summary of the “Beloved Community” values with documentation of their open house in the historic lower 9th ward in New Orleans, Louisiana.
The Boy With The Red Balloon
A film which experiments with time and narrative, directed by Justin Kappy Schmidt and shot by Emma Bright.
HEC TV: Steph Plant
Another highlight created for the Higher Education Channel, featuring Steph Plant. A musician, montessori school teacher, and mother based in Alton, Illinois.