[2] After college, Scott became an Seattle-based independent filmmaker whose first feature film was "Seat of Empire" (2009), a 3-hour long documentary tour of the city of Seattle using archival footage.

[2][3] In 2010 he directed and wrote "Waste of Time," a historical mash-up of original footage, archival images, and contemporary music meant as a portrait of consumer capitalism.

[9] Scott began a career as a writer in late 2014, contributing pieces about American politics and race relations to The Monarch Review[10] and The Seattle Weekly.

[11] In July 2015, Scott was hired by City Arts Magazine as a columnist, where he runs an ongoing thread called "Faded Signs" about popular culture under late capitalism.

[12] In September 2015, Thought Catalog Books published Scott's short-form essay "Something Better: Millennials and Late Capitalism at the Movies" on iTunes and Amazon.