“Bulldozing a Path: North St. Louis and NGA” is a short documentary I co-created with Jim Gass in Spring 2021. The film explores how urban renewal in North St. Louis often functions as a repeating cycle—beginning with the displacement of under-resourced communities and ending with the erasure of their historical and cultural presence.

This project began with a simple question: What happens to memory when a neighborhood disappears? As we examined the development of the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) headquarters, it became clear that this was not an isolated event, but part of a pattern.

We interviewed community members, gathered archival footage, and layered those stories with a visual narrative that traces both physical and emotional landscapes. The resulting film is a meditation on destruction and resilience, told through the voices of those who lived it.

🎥 Watch the full documentary below

Role: Co-director, writer, researcher
Tools Used: Video editing software, archival research, oral history interviews
Themes: Urban renewal, displacement, memory, St. Louis history