I WAS BORNE UPSTAIRS

I WAS BORNE UPSTAIRS is a collaborative installation that re-envisions a canonical scene in Jane Eyre through two primary interventions – the erasure of text and the erasure of emulsion.

2025

COLD MOON COMMUNION

Melting snow. Creaking trees. The distant call of a great horned owl. A sister’s whisper.

Cold Moon Communion illuminates the sacred ties that bind land, animal, human, and plant.

Filmed in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

2025

REVERSE BLOOM

Directed and Edited by Archer Boyette and Emma Geiger
Filmed by Archer Boyette

Song credits:
Emma Geiger: vocals, acoustic guitar
Archer Boyette: vocals
Michael Grigoni: pedal steel
Emma Kelly: violin
Alli Rogers: engineering and mixing
M Deetz: mastering

Filmed in Hillsborough, NC and Durham, NC.

2024

EMPTY

Directed and Edited by Archer Boyette and Emma Geiger
Filmed by Archer Boyette

Song credits:
Emma Geiger: vocals, acoustic guitar
Archer Boyette: vocals
Michael Grigoni: pedal steel
Emma Kelly: violin
Alli Rogers: engineering and mixing
M Deetz: mastering

Filmed in Durham, NC.

2023

WE BREATHE EACH OTHER IN AND OUT OF EXISTENCE

we breathe each other in and out of existence is a multimedia installation that weaves analog, digital, sculptural, and sonic components to celebrate the magic of plant life and create a space of environmental reverence.

Plants harvested in Pisgah National Forest.

2021

PHYTOGRAMS

Ongoing experiments and workshops in image-making with plants and non-toxic developers.

2020–present

ACID RAIN

A cinematic recreation of the violence of acid rain. Hand-processed with creek water and stripped with bleaching agent.

Filmed in the Blue Ridge Mountains.

2019