While on the film festival circuit with Lux Sine, I was interviewed by the Museum of the Moving Image (MoMI) and Sloan Science & Film about the project’s portrayal of dark matter research.
Over the years I have turned my passion for Archival 3D Reconstruction into a lecture series for students in programs ranging from undergraduate Media Studies to MFA Film Programs at institutions such as Emerson College & Johns Hopkins University.
Feature article in the Cineaste summer issue detailing the effects of censorship on independent film in China. It's titled Back to the Underground: A Year of Chinese Film Festival Shutdowns. Here's a short excerpt:
“This summer I went to Beijing to attend the 12th annual BIFF and explore some alternative cinema outside this year’s otherwise poorly received domestic theatrical releases produced within the state sponsored studio system. Upon arrival in Beijing, information on the festival was painstaking to find, even in Chinese. One phone call on the supposed day of the festival revealed that it would not take place at all. When I pressed for further information, the woman quietly said on the phone “It’s inconvenient for me to talk right now.” A raucous argument broke out in the background. “I have to go.” Clack.
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In the summer of 2013 I spent a month in traversing the spine of the Rockies to document the effects the climate change on the landscape and wildlife. Read more about it on Adventure Scientists.
The Bureau of Land Management has just suspended modern-day-cowboy Duke Ford’s grazing rights on federal land for his ten-year-running unpaid grazing bill of over $1 million, that is, for the fourth time. As word spreads of this Big Government Takeover and a renegade Freedom Militia coalesces on this small Nevadan desert town, a pending armed standoff becomes imminent. Yoga practicing environmentalists, born again bluegrass superstars, left-wing journalists, viral conspiracy theorists, the native Shoshone and a jaded town sheriff converge on Jonesville where each is forced to pick sides in this inspired by true events, only in America story.
This screenplay was selected as a finalist for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab in 2018.
I participated in the Google Jumpstart Program and worked closely with a team to explore and expand the possibilities of Google’s VR Cloud Stitching. More about the project and collaboration can be found above.
A riveting two hour long interview with Cannes award winning Chinese documentary filmmaker Zhao Liang. Topics covered include censorship, the nature of documentary and the struggles being of a middle-aged filmmaker. Published in Slant Magazine in English and simultaneously released on multiple platforms in Mandarin.
"In order to improve the situation the government has to change their standard on judging good art from bad. Because what we see as good art isn’t that same as what they see right now. What the government thinks is good art is to copy the Hollywood model for Chinese domestic films and putting their hand in it to help them rule better. Their definition of art is for better governing. They want to copy the Hollywood model and control it. What documentaries do is to break lies and to tell the truth. Is the government willing to face the truth?"
Writings from a series of musing, theories and experiments in AR/VR
At the close of my formal education, I self-published a florilegium of quotes, poems, photos and puzzles to keep for the road. As William James once said "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook".
Click the book cover to peek inside....