THE BLEU MIND

Our reluctance to use social media has been overcome, welcome to the new age ⚡️ Join us on our shoot in Honduras, where we give you a behind the scenes look at the war on deforestation. #documentary #cinematography #deforestation #Honduras #c500mkii #canon #documentaryfilm #behindthescenes #onassignment #journalism #latamstories #climatecrisis

Field notes, on the road. [Martha’s Vineyard + UK — 16 days of shooting] where this job takes us, rooms we would never enter and lives we would never know.

More on the horizon, from Taquillo to you 🇸🇻 🌴 Gracias to @flowhousesv and @kimberlyariella for hosting me while in El Salvador and supporting this project. Just got the film back from the Super 8 — very excited to share. Shoutout to @negativelandfilm for developing and scanning 🎞️ #elsalvador #documentaryfilm #super8 #super8film #sonyalpha #travel #explore #explorelsalvador #backpacking #latinamericatravel #eltunco #surfcityelsalvador

Life moving at the speed of light - another week full of being humbled, of taking risk, of some triumphs and big messes. Mid March in NYC. Spring on the horizon 🚹

the last month, a blizzard of birthdays and nyc recalibration.

Had a great conversation yesterday with @timgvr yesterday (check out his work) about how many projects never see the light of day. Archived for one reason or another, time + money + energy all to be held captive. Incarcerated ideas. The verdict: putting out work (however sloppy, unfinished, incomplete you think it is) is the ONLY way to be an artist, a maker, someone willing to share work and be critiqued. An artist isn’t in the business of perfection - they create and share, create and share. With reckless abandon. And you aren’t ’protecting your vision’ or ‘doing the work justice’ by waiting. Those are cop outs for half baked ideas and procrastination. In honor of that sentiment, going to be putting out rough and raw bits of projects that haven’t panned out and live rent free on a hard drive + the filing system of my mind. If only we had… What are the projects you buried? Shot on Canon C500 Mkii + Zeiss Milvus Primes #cinematography #filmmaking #film #canonusa

Wanted to take some time to reflect on my first time at Sundance @sundanceorg . We had a great time in the mountains but this is a little more pointed of a post about the actual festival. My first reaction is there is a lot of noise. Lots of events, conversations, agendas, lines, badges, hierarchies. Someone I met described “old Sundance” as a true film market, like a farmer’s market for cinema. Buyers would come specifically to take home films, and almost everything ended up sold. Now there are layers of sponsorships, branded houses, merch drops, invitation-only parties - late-stage capitalist carnival surrounding the art. it’s funny as I write this because maybe I’m a part of this group with this post but it seemed to be a lot of complaining. And from someone who didn’t grow up wanting to be the next Spielberg, it was kinda surprising how irritated people are about… making movies. Yo! We get to do this! But then there is @stephencurry30 and @bgproudfoot documentary that brought me to tears twice, The Baddest Speechwriter of All Time. Several others in that block made me say: this is why we do this. Or seeing @joshechevarria_ work on full display for the Midnight shorts. Sundance was inspiring in the theater, where the actual work and stories were on display. You can’t hide when your work is up there and people are actually watching. But the inflation, the fluff, the consumeristic, corporate gloss was something that truly made me question being in this line of work and whether Sundance is really an environment worth aspiring towards.

where the moment meets the wall 🧗 - @brooklynboulderingproject Filmed by @andrewckirsch #climbing #cinematography #filmmaking #bouldering #canonusa

Back in October @nacho_crespof and I worked on a branded bouldering project in Brooklyn. We checked out the backside of the wall and put the camera on high, elevated surfaces (last slides). It was a cool environment to film in - the sun just peaking through the slotted windows while climbers hang and push themselves to the top. Chalk and sweat everywhere. Weaving my way through some old pieces, archives and footage, back in the editing room in a wintery February state of mind. 🚹 #cinematography #canonusa #c500mkii #bouldering #filmmaking

Without saying too much, 2026 is under way. Surrender to the script. Pay attention. Get your team together, make big plans and execute. @mrcosoriano capturing the moment 📷 #filmmaking #cinematography #nycfilm #arri #2026

Getting active in Hollywoood, California! First days out in the sun, amongst the hills of money and fame and vanity and riches. @barneyy18 took me for a spin around his work at Universal Studios, major sets being built and almost all the lots and sound stages full with active crews. Fun to feel the buzz of gear, people and movies being made. Today we dove deep into a project with @bloombergoriginals - traded the mountains of Utah (took a journey to Park City for @sundanceorg for a week) for the high heat of the west coast. 🌞 I guess I understand a bit of why people might warm up to this place. Maybe there is a bit of magic left in this city. - 🚹🚹🚹 #cinematography #documentary #sonyburano #sonycine #bloombergoriginals

Behind the scenes - at @pier59studios for @noathecollective Crew + Talent * Talent: Lucie Reese @luciesreese Kaitlyn Jackson @_struckbylightning_ ; Diletta Guglielmi @dillydaydreaming , Nick Vata @nickvata ; Josh Adejokun joshtco_ * Director: Alex Szymczak @alexmszymczak * Producer: Luke Simboli @slim.boli * Director of Photography: Andrew Kirschenbaum @andrewckirsch * Photographer: Cassandra Angelini-Vazquez @cassandrangv * Associate Producer: Lucy Whitehurst @lucy.ellen.w * Associate Producer: Talia Hankin @talia_hankin * Gaffer: Vadim Sapyrkin @vadyaraketa * Key Grip: George Chorny @george.c____ * 1st Assistant Camera: Maic Ordoñez @maics.diary * HMU: Sol Henriquez @solsaesthetics * BTS: Nacho Crespo @nacho_crespof * Production Assistant: Avery Weissman @averyweissman