FILM/VIDEO
These time-based works range from short-form video to feature-length documentary. Some originate from artist residencies or travel, while others emerge through collaborations with fellow artists. Across varied formats, the projects extend Osline’s core themes—identity, environment, and transformation—through narrative, portraiture, and place-based observation.
Gringotopia is a twelve-part series of 10-minute films featuring inspiring, poignant, and often humorous interviews with Americans and Canadians who have relocated permanently to Mexico. The series explores themes of displacement, reinvention, and cross-cultural belonging.
Americans Tell Jokes are short episodes of recordings of Americans telling jokes in public spaces. While laughter may be universal, jokes are culturally specific, carrying traces of bias, empathy, and contradiction that reflect the complexities of contemporary American life.
Hometown Proud, co-directed with Tyler Stallings, is a 60-minute documentary following Archer, an openly gay California dance teacher, as he returns to his rural Ohio hometown to perform in a small-town pageant. Blending interviews with vérité-style footage, the film explores family, belonging, and the courage to live openly in a conservative setting.