She is a writer/director. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright Scholarship to India, and fellowships from MacDowell, Yaddo, and the Wexner Center. She is a graduate of the AFI, and previously worked as an assistant to Terrence Malick, in addition to co-curating the miniature cinema Veggie Cloud since 2014. The American Sector (2020), her documentary (co-directed with Pacho Velez) was named one of the best films of 2021 in The New Yorker. Her essay film, Terra Femme (2021) was a New York Times critic’s pick and premiered at the Museum of Modern Art. It has toured widely as a live performance. Her films have been exhibited at museums and film festivals including the Berlinale, Viennale, IDFA, Hong Kong, SXSW and the New York Film Festival. She is currently working on a feature doc about dolphin scientist and psychedelics pioneer John C. Lilly, co-directed with Michael Almereyda. Invention (2024), a collaboration with actress and filmmaker Callie Hernandez, earned the latter the award for best actress in the Filmmakers of the Present section of the Locarno Festival.