Selected Films
These film works emerge from long-term photographic investigations into contested urban spaces, migration, and the social peripheries of global cities.
Everything You Need is Right in Front of You
Philadelphia, USA | In development
A portrait of the invisible systems that keep a city alive. Through the daily work of independent hauler Rob Gore and his mother Anne—a longtime neighborhood caretaker—the film traces Philadelphia’s informal networks of waste, labor, and care. Moving from scrap yards to a makeshift daycare, these interconnected worlds reveal a fragile, improvised infrastructure held together by resourcefulness, grit, and the materials at hand.
Philadelphia, USA | In development
A portrait of the invisible systems that keep a city alive. Through the daily work of independent hauler Rob Gore and his mother Anne—a longtime neighborhood caretaker—the film traces Philadelphia’s informal networks of waste, labor, and care. Moving from scrap yards to a makeshift daycare, these interconnected worlds reveal a fragile, improvised infrastructure held together by resourcefulness, grit, and the materials at hand.
All Under Heaven
USA, China | In development
All Under Heaven is a documentary project that explores the shifting relationship between the United States, China, and Taiwan through the lens of one extended family. The Yeh siblings—born in China, raised in Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s, and later settled in the United States—carry within their lives the arc of the last century’s geopolitical transformations. Through conversations, gatherings, and everyday moments across generations, the film observes how questions of migration, loyalty, cultural memory, and belonging unfold within family life. Rather than offering analysis or argument, All Under Heaven approaches geopolitics at a human scale, tracing how global tensions quietly reverberate through the intimate terrain of family relationships.
USA, China | In development
All Under Heaven is a documentary project that explores the shifting relationship between the United States, China, and Taiwan through the lens of one extended family. The Yeh siblings—born in China, raised in Taiwan in the 1950s and 1960s, and later settled in the United States—carry within their lives the arc of the last century’s geopolitical transformations. Through conversations, gatherings, and everyday moments across generations, the film observes how questions of migration, loyalty, cultural memory, and belonging unfold within family life. Rather than offering analysis or argument, All Under Heaven approaches geopolitics at a human scale, tracing how global tensions quietly reverberate through the intimate terrain of family relationships.
Wu and Zeng
Guangzhou, China | 2014
Filmed between 2009 and 2014, Wu and Zeng follows two Chinese itinerant portrait photographers who set up a studio on a pedestrian bridge in Guangzhou. For African traders and other travelers, the bridge became both a symbolic gateway into China and a place to commission a portrait as a memento of their time there.
Guangzhou, China | 2014
Filmed between 2009 and 2014, Wu and Zeng follows two Chinese itinerant portrait photographers who set up a studio on a pedestrian bridge in Guangzhou. For African traders and other travelers, the bridge became both a symbolic gateway into China and a place to commission a portrait as a memento of their time there.
Cabaret Okinawa
Okinawa, Japan | 2018
Filmed in Okinawa’s nightlife districts adjacent to American bases, the project observes bars, clubs, and music as sites where the lives of U.S. service members and local Okinawans intersect. It listens to doors, stages, and soundscapes — where geopolitics filters into everyday performance.
Director/Producer: Greg Girard/Daniel Traub
Director of Photography: Daniel Traub
Okinawa, Japan | 2018
Filmed in Okinawa’s nightlife districts adjacent to American bases, the project observes bars, clubs, and music as sites where the lives of U.S. service members and local Okinawans intersect. It listens to doors, stages, and soundscapes — where geopolitics filters into everyday performance.
Director/Producer: Greg Girard/Daniel Traub
Director of Photography: Daniel Traub