Alison O’Daniel had been making video art and performance videos — “I was taking a material and sculptural approach to video, thinking of video in relation to the body,” she says — when she took a class with video artist Bruce Yonemoto in the grad program at UC Irvine. Yonemoto assigned his students the task of following traditional filmmaking strategies, and, O’Daniel says, “I found a language I had already been speaking. Film was my first love, and I had been voraciously consuming and conceptually watching it for so long. So, basic filmmaking grammar came naturally.” Around that time, O’Daniel discovered another affinity — sound editing — after she got her first digital hearing aids. When she was three, O’Daniel was diagnosed with 60% binaural hearing loss, and switching from analog to digital hearing aids “rocked my world,” she says. “All of a sudden, I had heard all these sounds that I had never heard before, like the peeling of a banana.”

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source: Filmmaker Magazine, alisonodaniel.com