Editor
Music has been a huge influence on my life. I grew up in Detroit, where techno was formative for me — and I ended up marrying a techno producer, Sharif Laffrey. We've collaborated for years: I'd design the interior spaces for our parties, he'd program the music, and we'd screen-print the invitations ourselves. Always is one of our more recent collaborations.
A music video for Sharif's single-sided 12" on Berlin's Discos Capablanca. I edited from his eclectic archive — vintage technology films, ethnographic documentaries, Belarusian military footage, English rave tapes, and clips from The New Dance Show, a Detroit public-access dance program. I tried to edit the way the music is made: sampling, cutting, and repeating footage into visual patterns that lock to the track, building a syncopated story out of found images.
The video premiered on Ransom Note, and the record remains a sought-after vinyl years on, still circulating in the DJ and collector scene that defines this corner of dance music.