Sinclair, 2026
Three-channel film, 9:28
Developed through repeated visits to Sinclair, Wyoming, Sinclair is an ongoing moving-image and installation project examining the relationships among industry, landscape, and the social structures that emerge around them. Shot on 16mm film with local participants, the work combines staged actions, interviews, and archival research to consider how labor, civic life, and historical memory become embedded within a company town created to serve the Sinclair Oil Corporation.
The current three-channel work draws on Abel Gance's Napoléon (1927), referencing and reimagining its pioneering Polyvision sequence through a contemporary landscape shaped by extraction, infrastructure, and shifting forms of belonging. Rather than reconstructing local history, Sinclair considers how communities continually perform and renegotiate the stories through which they understand themselves.
The project is currently in development toward an installation for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (November 2027 to April 2028).
Project Credits
Cinematography
April Goldberg
Featuring
Patrick Ellenwood
Destiny Gabbois
Rye Hoogerwerf
Robbie Rettmer
Lydia Toelee
Selected Exhibitions
West of the Sun, Unbound Visual Arts, Boston, 2026 (solo exhibition)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (forthcoming), 2027–2028
Project Support
2026 Unbound Visual Arts Residency