Val Jeanty: How to make an earth, video

Concept, production, editing

“How to make an earth” is a music video for the musician Val Jeanty, assembled from hundreds of clips of found internet footage. I met Val when she participated in the WOMANPRODUCER series that I co-curated at National Sawdust in 2016. We recorded Val’s live performance from the event, a jaw-dropping work of live percussion, sampling, and mixing. Listening to Val perform feels like witnessing big weather or some other impressive act of nature. I came up with the idea to make a video to accompany a section of the recording and proceeded to amass a huge quantity of clips of internet footage of natural disasters and acts of human creation and destruction. I edited them together and released this video in 2019.