promotional web series, creative producer, cinematography and editing, 2015

Canon C100, Canon 28-70 mm F4.0, Zeiss Distagon 28 mm F2.0, 35 mm F2.0, 50 mm F1.4, 85 mm F1.4

We were approached by author Şehrazad Ayşe Uslu to help her promote her novel The Roots that Clutch. An autobiographical novel, based on her Ph.D. research on T.S. Eliot’s seminal poem The Waste Land, her troubled married life at the time, and a possible family secret concerning American poet William Carlos Williams.

We developed a series of short teasers, that can be viewed stand-alone or as a serial narrative, taking fragments of chapters of her book narrated by the author, and juxtaposing that with visual mini-narratives starring the author, as she navigates or acts in settings based on different parts of Eliot’s poem.