How We Stay
Editor & Director of Photography: Aidan Un
Producer: Elizabeth Svokos
Sound Mixer: Josh Broome
Placekeeping can take many forms. For the young organizers of New York's Chinatown community, it's an act of resistance. As higher rents and unfamiliar businesses made their way into their neighborhood, locals turned to community gatherings, art and education in a shared solidarity to stay. "How We Stay" sees this change through the lens of Wing on Wo and the Chinatown Art Brigade.
On Display: Mass Incarceration
Production Company: ART DOCS
Host: Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham
Supervising Producer: Elizabeth Svokos
Stephanie Johnson-Cunningham illuminates how museum professionals are pushing boundaries to respond to the pressing social issues of our time. In this episode, we explore how Mass Incarceration is on display through the lens of Eastern State Penitentiary and The Drawing Center’s exhibits and programs, intersecting history and art as it relates to current experiences.
Glass Handel
Director & Producer: Elizabeth Svokos
Editor: Julia Kots
Sound Mixer: Josh Broome
Anthony Roth Costanzo didn’t want to have the standard “park-and-bark” opera concert, so he took the paradigm and flipped it – literally. In this immersive concert, Costanzo places audiences in moving chairs and tours them through fluid stations featuring music, dance, video and art as the compositions of Glass and Handel echo through St. John the Divine.
Wayfinding in Harlem
Producer and series co-creator for this meditative piece on how a museum continues to show up for its community while their physical building is closed. Series acquired by PBS.
Producer: Elizabeth Svokos
Director & Editor: Crystal Kayiza
Director of Photography: Peter Quandt
In 2018, The Studio Museum in Harlem closed its longtime home to begin construction on a new building. In the absence of a permanent gallery, the museum launched in Harlem, a site-specific series that brings art directly to the community through displays in public spaces, libraries and parks. Conceptual artist Chloë Bass guides St. Nicholas Park on a wayfinding journey.
Heartbeat Opera
Producer, writer & editor on this behind the scenes look at this modern opera company stepping into 6-inch heels. Series acquired by PBS.
Producer, Editor & Director: Elizabeth Svokos
Heartbeat Opera takes a 400-year-old art form out of its box – 6-inch heels required. Join the cast and crew of Heartbeat’s annual drag opera extravaganza – this year titled, “Dragus Maximus.” Artists, writers, producers and performers of the young opera company are encouraged to examine traditional boundaries and flex their creative muscles, all to excite new and old opera audiences alike.
The Set List
Producer for episodes 101-113 of live music concerts and backstage interviews with artists. AD for 6-camera outdoor concert capture at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival 2018.
Come to the foot of the stage with live performances, exclusive back-stage access and artist interviews here on The Set List.
The Opera House
On-site producer for historical documentary about Lincoln Center. Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival.
A new documentary by multiple Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker Susan Froemke (Grey Gardens; Lalee’s Kin: The Legacy of Cotton) surveys a remarkable period of the Metropolitan Opera’s controversial history and a time of great change for New York City.
In Motion: Andrea Miller
Producer for short-form documentary about Andrea Miller’s first of its kind artist-in-residency at the Met Breuer, airing on PBS.
Explore Andrea Miller’s creative process as the first choreographer to be named Artist-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Miller’s installations at the Temple of Dendur and the Met Breuer contemplate the relationship of bodies in site-specific spaces. Watch her play with interpretation in physical conversation with her dancers and see her work evolve during her yearlong residency.
The “C” Files with Maria Brito
Field producer for new series featuring luminaries of the art scene for frank discussions about cultural and social issues.
Maria Brito and artist Sanford Biggers discuss issues related to syncretism, Black history, police brutality and the influences that jazz and hip-hop have had on Sanford’s multimedia practice.
Wagner’s Dream
On-site assistant producer for this feature-length documentary following the birth of a new Ring Cycle at The Metropolitan Opera, working with Academy Award winning editor Bob Eisenhardt (Free Solo) and cinéma vérité director Susan Froemke (Grey Gardens.)
The stakes could not be higher as visionary director Robert Lepage, the world’s greatest singers, and the Metropolitan Opera tackle Wagner’s Ring cycle. An intimate look at the enormous theatrical and musical challenges of staging opera’s most monumental work, the film chronicles the quest to fulfill Wagner’s dream of a perfect Ring.