Me

I make small films and other experiments about what it means to be alive.

I’m a cinematographer, startup founder, and all-around maker who finds joy in creating things by hand. My work lives somewhere between art and engineering... I tinker, build, and film to understand the world a little better.

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When I’m not behind a camera or deep in product design, you might find me dyeing fabric in the sun, roasting coffee, tending a garden, or trying to convince my dog to sit still for one more shot. I like the smell of tomato leaves, the hum of old film, and the quiet satisfaction that comes from making something real.

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Featured Work

I make a lot of things and I’m learning to share them more often, because art only comes to life when someone else gets to feel it. For years I created quietly, collecting films and small experiments that never left my desk. Now I try to share them while they’re still raw, because the magic lives in connection.... and in letting the work reach someone who might see a bit of themselves in it.

endless ideas
too little time

StitchWitch

Watch a wedding in 360, and the photos everyone took show up at the moment they were taken.

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Sun-dyed silk

Sun-dyed silk

Two stained silk dresses, some leftover SolarFast, and a garden's worth of leaves.

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The Long Wire

The Long Wire

A co-op card game in a flooded neon desert, where the thing you spend is trust. Still in the making.

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Glendora

Glendora

Glendora is where I grew up. Most of my closest friends still live there, and many now have kids I think of as my own nieces and nephews. Every visit feels both familiar and changed, like time moves differently inside those streets. The town has a kind of stillness to it. The trees are older, the houses haven’t learned the new styles, and people wave when you drive by. It feels smaller each year as my world gets wider, but that’s part of its charm. Glendora holds the shape of where I started, and it’s good to keep returning to it.

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I make things because my hands get restless. Sometimes it’s film, sometimes it’s fabric, sometimes it’s something I’ll never finish. Around four in the afternoon the light hits my window just right, and I forget what I was doing, which is usually when the good ideas show up.

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Come say Hello!

Sonoma, California
my phone is on silent indefinitely
me@lyndsaydonhoff.com

Lyndsay Donhoff

Nothing here is perfect, and that’s sort of the point. The film jumps, the light leaks, the color drifts. I think that’s where the charm hides.... in all the little ways the world refuses to be polished.

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