He often employs multimedia approaches as situationally contingent avenues in the pursuit of subjective truths and to initiate conversations with critical film and social theory.
Among 16mm non-camera exposures, VHS manipulations, archival material, and computer-based imagery, he interrogates the definition of ‘camera’ and the filmmaker’s relationship to the tool.
His work draws inspiration from Jean Painlevé, Theo Anthony, Donna Haraway, Robert McFarlane, and Ocean Vuong.
Corey holds a B.S. in Journalism and a minor in Animal Sciences from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Science and Natural History Filmmaking at Montana State University.
He is originally from the suburbs of Chicago and is now based in Bozeman, MT.