Archive for 2015

I’m in a commodious Airbnb in Austin watching the final fight sequence in OMPHALOS and making remote tweaks with our VFX artist in Bay Ridge.

A sedulous edit yields an EPK for the delightful Mark Heyes and Phil Salazar, soon to be posted herein.

Back to stunning Ojai to shoot an EPK for the dexterous and amiable Mark Heyes and Phil Salazar. Good to have dirt underfoot after the ersatz universe of Beverly Hills.

Shooting for my staunch perennial IWC Schaffhausen in Beverly Hills for their Rodeo Drive flagship store opening. It’s another 22-hr shoot/edit/score. I know I’m not in Kansas anymore when I begin making short, mid-movie-making forays to the macrobiotic resto two blocks away (lined three deep with identical silver Priuses). Watch the completed video here.

OMPHALOS, new cut completed—we’re at cut 11—ventures out to SXSW and Rotterdam this week.

The documentary for which I shot much, RED UMBRELLA DIARIES, premieres at IFC Cinema in New York. Congrats to David Kornfield and Chris Fiore.

Back to an old stalwart: shooting CHOPPED for the Food Network. I’m the DP on the biopack team (since 2009), and the hook in the job is the chance to interview chefs—a métier closer than one would guess to film production, for its assiduous hours, requirements for time-crucial execution, and communal effort, yet martinet hierarchy.

Under a capacious and swanky tent shooting a luncheon with Public School for IWC Schaffhausen, concurrently premiering a truncated version of these videos.

FROM BAGHDAD TO BROOKLYN, the complex and highly personal doc by Jen Utz and written/produced by Mark Monroe, with music by yours truly—now out on Netflix.

After many sedulous hours of post, I deliver three small spots (directed/DP-ed/and scored by yours truly) featuring a collaboration between IWC Schaffhausen and the downtown label Public School.