Parable: The Time of Bush

Living in Lincoln Nebraska, thanks to a grant which Dan Ladely of the Ross Cinema pointed me to, had a chance to make a final film about the American war in Iraq.  2007, already deep in the shit-pile of it all.   I gathered some actors – Steve Taylor in a lead role, and others, some […]

Over Here

Back in the US after a trip to Europe where La Lunga Ombra was made, my attentions again turned to America and the on-going war-of-choice in Iraq, and its domestic “collateral damages”.  Despite the political cold shoulder which Homecoming had – no American festivals would show it, hardly any screenings could be found, despite its […]

The Long Shadow

In 2006, being in Italy, a friend – Eliana Miglio – who had worked with me on my Italian film Uno a me, uno a te, & uno a Rafaella, asked me to think about making a film with her.  I said OK, and in quick order we rounded up some other friends, a place […]

Yes No

Living in Paris for a year and some, and knowing I’d be there around that long, I decided – as seems my habit – to make a film there.  A friend, Jim Stark, suggested some actors and I met with them and said my thought was to make a film slowly, over a year, meeting […]

Passages

Like many of the works I have done in digital format, Passages is composed of images which were not made with a particular film in mind, but rather is made of shots done for the pleasure of learning to see with this media and its peculiar possibilities.  The film came about after Gertjan Zuilhof, at […]