News

Directing another installment of MAGIC REALISTS AND THE RADICAL HOPE (a series of short films to be agglutinated into something bigger). This time, we’re at an artist’s production workshop in Crown Heights (beneficently offered by the talented and inimitable Timothy Paul Myers), shooting with the multi-disciplinary artist and performer Andrea Merkx. Mike Flannery, my co-conspirator, excels in production design on this day.

I’m in Nashville, shooting The Black Keys.

I’m with the great and humble Alan Ruck and multi-decade collaborator and dear friend George Nicholas shooting a project (I can’t disclose) in Cleveland. We eat sushi, among other activities.

Mike Flannery and I shoot another installment of Magic Realists and the Radical Hope, involving invented instruments, a basement, and nodes plugged into the earth. It’s a day filled with joy and afflatus.

A month of incubation, but always working: various edits and shoots for some spots on public schools; also, cutting a cinema project I can’t disclose; and finally, work continues apace on MAGIC REALISTS & THE RADICAL HOPE, as well as development for ORPHEUS IN REVERSE. Always important to remember that the superficially dormant months can be the most fecund.

I’m shooting at The New Museum, documenting the fascinating process by which Wangechi Mutu‘s show is installed.

Back up in Stamford, DP-ing pick-ups for Andrew Douglas at One River.

As a pick-up shoot for the MAGIC REALISTS & THE RADICAL HOPE film LEDGER DE MANN, we drop an old tube tv off a rooftop. In other words, we start the year off right. You can watch our BTS footage here.

ORPHEUS IN REVERSE revanchement. Tackling draft four of a feature screenplay I am determined to shoot in 2023. More soon.

In New Jersey, at an old capacious mansion, shooting the second in a series of episodic shorts, part of a larger collection—could be a feature, could be a series—tentatively titled MAGIC REALISTS AND THE RADICAL HOPE. This one’s called LEDGER DE MANN, starring Carl Hendrick Louis and Keith Randolph Smith.