"Re-Aligned" is a feature documentary, following an eccentric but scientifically minded New Mexico chiropractor as he travels from Albuquerque to Mozambique on a mission to help people in some of the country’s most remote communities.

The film follows Blair T. Alexander after years marked by the pandemic, family upheaval, personal tragedy, and the demands of maintaining his chiropractic practice. He travels to Africa with a very practical skill and a desire to serve, treating children, families, and warriors along the way. But as the journey unfolds, the idea of "alignment" begins to mean something much larger than chiropractic care.

I directed, wrote, and produced the feature through Shiny Object Films. At its core, "Re-Aligned" is a documentary about healing, purpose, service, and what can happen when someone steps far outside the life they know. Blair begins the journey hoping to help realign other people; the larger question is what the experience ultimately realigns in him.

"Re-Aligned" is still an active independent project. Principal production is complete, and while finishing the film has taken longer than originally planned as work and family life have competed for time, I continue to return to it and move it forward. Some projects just take the long way to the finish line.

This short documentary profiles artist Adam Hevey at the New Mexico State Fair, focusing on the way his work blends traditional Native influences with contemporary, urban, and sometimes deliberately provocative elements.

I produced and edited the film around Hevey’s perspective on identity, representation, and artistic voice. One featured piece, "The Last Feast Day," combines traditional Jemez imagery with a modern detail—a cell phone—capturing the tension and overlap between heritage and present-day life that runs through much of his work.

The film was designed to let the artwork and artist speak for themselves, highlighting Hevey’s belief that art should make people think, react, and talk. At its core, the piece is about creating work for people who may not often see themselves represented—and using art to make room for identities that do not fit neatly into one category.

"Beds4Kidz" is a documentary short about the New Mexico nonprofit founded by Steve Stucker, the longtime KOB 4 weather personality and one of the most recognizable broadcasters in the state. Over a career spanning nearly five decades in radio and television, Steve became a fixture of New Mexico mornings and was inducted into the New Mexico Broadcasters Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle.

Beds4Kidz grew out of Steve’s charitable work after a request came in to help a 12-year-old girl with spina bifida who needed a hospital bed. What started as a small effort run out of his garage eventually grew into an operation with an 8,000-square-foot warehouse that has provided free beds to more than 20,000 New Mexicans. I produced and edited the film around Steve, the organization’s volunteers, and the families they serve, focusing on the emotional weight behind something as basic as having a safe place to sleep.

The piece was designed to feel intimate, human, and a little rough around the edges in the right way, capturing the "organized chaos" of the volunteers alongside Steve’s humor, compassion, and deep connection to the community. Beneath the larger-than-life TV personality is someone who turned his visibility into a way to mobilize people and directly help families, and that contrast became a major part of what made the story work.

Beds4Kidz — https://www.beds4kidz.org/

Steve Stucker — https://www.stevestucker.com/

"A Monkey in the Desert Contemplates Time" is a short solo film about the strange way our relationship with time changes as we get older. Shot entirely on an iPhone in a single day, the piece follows a lone monkey in the desert reflecting on how easily we spend, waste, trade, and worry away something we can never get back.

I wrote, shot, produced, edited, and created the film myself, using a deliberately simple setup to focus on the narration, imagery, and rhythm of the piece. The monologue moves through memory, work, money, anger, anxiety, and regret before arriving at a more hopeful idea: if time is limited, spend more of it on the things that actually matter.

The film was designed as a small, slightly absurd visual essay—part philosophical reflection, part desert oddity. The monkey gives the piece a surreal sense of humor, while the stripped-down production became part of the experiment: one person, one phone, one day, and one idea about time.

"iBuddy" is a comedy short about a guy whose new smartphone quickly becomes less like a device and more like an overly involved best friend. What starts as a helpful upgrade turns increasingly intrusive as the phone wakes him up, comments on his dating life, diagnoses medical problems, gets him lost, interrupts conversations, and competes for his attention.

The film stars Jerry Spears, Robb Moon, and Jeanine Mason, and plays with the early smartphone era when having a device that could suddenly do everything still felt new, exciting, and slightly ridiculous. The humor comes from pushing that relationship one step further and treating the phone like a jealous roommate who knows far too much about its owner.

The short was built as a fast, absurd tech comedy, mixing relationship humor, fake apps, bad recommendations, social media jokes, navigation disasters, and an increasingly possessive digital sidekick. Looking back, it is also a fun little time capsule of the moment when smartphones were starting to become inseparable from everyday life.

Things get surreal after a breakdown in the desert.

"Breakdown", starring Chris Payne, is a surreal comedy short about a man stranded in the desert whose bad day quickly turns into something much stranger. What starts with a simple breakdown spirals into bizarre encounters, impossible logic, 27.3 wishes, financial planning, llamas, pigs, chickens, and repeated reminders that somehow, apparently, all of this is a metaphor for the human condition.

We made this one a long time ago, and it is unapologetically weird. The film leans into randomness, deadpan humor, abrupt shifts in logic, and the kind of low-budget surrealism that gets more entertaining the less anyone tries to explain it.

It is basically an early example of my tendency to mix comedy with absurdity and then pretend there is something deeply philosophical happening underneath. Maybe there is. Maybe there are just llamas.

"Dummy Falls" is a comedy short about cops, robbers, filmmakers, terrible stunts, and a production that keeps falling apart faster than anyone can fix it in post.

The film stars Chris Payne, Michael Baldonado, Dan Mayfield, Andy Rienen, and Tom Szymanski, and plays with the chaos of low-budget filmmaking, constantly breaking the action to reveal bad performances, missing motivation, green-screen promises, continuity problems, food distractions, production arguments, and increasingly questionable stunt work. What starts as a straightforward cops-and-robbers scene slowly collapses into a movie about the people unsuccessfully trying to make the movie.

It is deliberately scrappy, self-aware, and ridiculous, built around the familiar filmmaker promise that "we'll fix it in post." The fun comes from watching that confidence survive long after the production itself has clearly gone off the rails.