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Personal Projects

Once in a while, I like attempting new things. Sometimes they end up as full projects. Some of them are here. I hope you like them. They're all accessible at no cost.

a short, three-minute documentary exploring audio recordings from the year 1894 to 1922 recorded over a graphophone, layered over home-footage from the year 1920 to 1985, as an indulgent social-commentary of the human experience as well as a testament to the everlasting nature of art.

watch it here!
review it on letterboxed | review it on IMDb

a poster of a film with a baby smiling on the top and an old couple on the bottom. the text reads "darling, mister graphophone, a film by phoenix tesni."
a swan looks down at its own reflection in green-blue water with ripples. the text reads "water."

the thing about water is that it can engulf you in stillness and in waves. here, there are two swans.
 
do you remember what happened all those years ago?


an interactive story.

play it here!

A Mastodon Bot that periodically sends you positive, kind reminders.

This was originally made as a Twitter bot in June 2022, which was discontinued in April 2023, after Twitter suspended API access.

In July 2023, it was revived and rewritten for Mastodon, where it now happily posts every hour.

 

a brown box that says "kind" kept on a white table against a black background. there's a strip on light shining on it.
a graphic of a staircase and the cosmos. the text reads "Somewhere In A Dream" "edited by phoenix tesni"  "issue one"

An independent zine to capture dream-like, ethereal work from poets and artists from around the work. Released on September 25, 2022.

buy it here!

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