Def Sound - I Been (2022) 


Photography & direction by Sara Suárez  
Music & lyrics by Def Sound
Produced + Mixed by Zhao 
Mastered by Important Horse


Def Sound - Good Grief (2023) 


Directed by Sara Suárez
Movement Artist: Jessica Emmanuel
Director of Photography: Mike Formanski
Assistant Camera: Mel Sangyi Zhao
Assistant Director: Trevor Byrne  

Music & lyrics by Def Sound
Prod. & mixed by Lightfoot
Mastered by Kelly Hibbert


Annabelle Freedman - Thank You (2024) 


Photography & direction by Sara Suárez  
Music & lyrics by Def Sound
Produced + Mixed by Zhao 
Mastered by Important Horse


nocturne


An 8mm film commissioned by Echo Park Film Center for its 20th Anniversary in December 2021. Insomnia or sleepwalking, observations of a city at night.

Again I awoke as the sun was setting
Went wandering –
At dawn, the sky still obscure



finer frequencies

A short sound/image study of the Mount Wilson radio array in the Angeles National Forest. The sound is from a portable radio I modified. Screened at the Los Angeles State Historic Park in 2018.








violently 


A silent visual poem; recovered text fragments. Screened at the Film & Video Poetry Society, NYC, 2019.



Los Angeles Is Endless Like A Scroll

A sound composition for a collaborative visual media performance with Spatial Awareness Network and Roundhouse Platform. Performed at WUHO Gallery in July 2019.