Colorado premiere of Zuni: Connections Through Time, showing Mar 5th and Mar 8th at the Gaslight. If youâre in Colorado come see some great films at Durango International Film Festival! #diff2026
Updating my YouTube channel! Releasing The Lion and the Firebird today for your viewing pleasure. This was a dream come true to make - getting to plow full bore into a fantasy world of the distant past, and work with such incredibly talented actors, performers, crew, and artists to bring it to life. It was also a fascinating technical challenge to set a movie entirely in constructed environments, both virtual and real. It taught me a lot on my way out of my MFA and on the way to my latest feature, and I'm really grateful to everyone who was involved. Link in my bio or below!
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https://youtu.be/H_DWIzhr_mE
Today I'm thrilled to be releasing THE LOST as my latest YouTube update. This fantasy horror music video set to the music of OLYA was basically the last fiction piece I made before I left Boston for my MFA program, bringing together some of the really talented people I knew in Boston to do things they were amazing at - costume, paint, do martial arts, sword fight, makeup, dance, and brave the late summer mosquitoes at a historic castle (yes we've got those in America!)
It was sort of the last time I made a movie this way, the way you throw a party - provide cool costumes, invite cool people, and see what happens. Truly collaborative. I was really proud of it, but then I started an MFA, and a pandemic hit, and it kind of got lost. I've always been sad about that, so I'm really happy to be putting it out at last.
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Link in the description or copy it here:
https://youtu.be/2NBUL3Xk0qA
Updating my YouTube, today with one of the first expedition films I made, which finally after all these years I'm releasing publicly. (The stack of now useless DVDs in the basement was a sign.)
This really was an incredible journey, riding on horseback and the rooftop of 4WD vehicles with buddhist monks into a place that looked like something out of antiquity, a dream of deep time. Since then roads have been built all the way in and I wonder (without wanting very much to look) at how much has changed. But here is a record of the place when I was still young and it was still old.
It's kind of amazing going through the vast archive of things I've made and think - these were whole chapters of life, bound up in a single journey, represented now by something created. Only a glimpse of that time, really, but still, opening memories like unfolding a piece of Origami.
Link in BIO and here:
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https://youtu.be/1keotOanFmY
Updating the YouTube. For a few years I did a lot of medical outreach films to remote parts of the world. This short film about curing blindness in remote Mustang, Nepal, was in ways the high point in my exploration of how to make this kind of film a real work of art. Field working conditions are tough and I remember hauling sliders, cranes, and all sorts of irrational objects over to achieve the shots in this. Watching it back now I'm still pleased with them. A beautiful experience and I'll never forget galloping out of those remote villages on horseback to return home. Anyway, it's up now to watch if that sounds like your thing.
Link in bio and also here:
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https://youtu.be/y6miQhvLb5E
Continuing to update my YouTube channel... this time with ICE MAN, a cannibal horror film I made as a Columbia student. This was one of the best sets I've been on where the cliche about it feeling like a family really held true. And it also in many ways was the prototype for my first feature, with a lot of overlap in the team between it and Eradication. If you're hankering for some award winning cannibal horror, link to the Channel in bio. (or if you're an old school computer user like me: https://youtu.be/chNOP6-ALfU)
Updating my YouTube channel with a bunch of my films from over the years! This one was so special, really the first real film I directed after undergrad and in some ways still the closest thing to a pure "me" film, refusing any kind of compromise to an imagined audience. Just zombies, swords, guns, period costumes, a bunch of languages with no subtitles, and buckets of mud and blood. I've come a long way as a director since this film but it's still dear to me, it was such an amazing team, and I hope someday to get to make the feature. Watch it here: https://youtu.be/xPN82KKir4I
Continuing to update my YouTube, this time with a short doc, a wonderful project working with Madagascar fish eagles, the local Sakalava people, and the peregrine fund. If you want to see some cool eagles and an absolutely stunning and unique exosystem - check out Fish Eagle of Madagascar https://youtu.be/u1iv_xjVH9c
Been gone on here a minute. Or a few years, hard to say. Amazing what finishing a feature film will do to cure you of posting. And everything else. Happily we're done and out to market at AFM this week, so I'm taking a cautious step back into the online waters. Hi!
I'm also uploading a lot of the films I've made that are now out of exclusivity periods on deals and their festival runs to youtube over the coming weeks, so they'll all be in one place for your viewing pleasure. Today... Penumbra!
If you haven't seen it and are craving some spooky alien sci-fi horror, may I recommend this award winning short film at: https://youtu.be/v51fMjKmhdE
Wonderful LA premiere of Zuni: Connections Through Time at the @rednationff on Tuesday, tackling themes of reconnection, repatriation, and historical erasure, alongside a powerful block of films. Ryan Flynn's @yourenoindian ("You're No Indian") about tribal delisting was especially powerful - definitely look for it when it comes out!
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Story of the amazing clay ball and Octavius that changed everything on our Grand Canyon archaeological dig, part of my lecture on documentary filmmaking at @carsoncenterunl@octaviusseowtewa
