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COMPLETE
FILMOGRAPHY
For all of the following films and video, I was the producer, director, writer, editor and in many cases cinematographer.
Beta SP, Color, 10 min.
Description: What do the religious right and the gay liberation movement have in common? Both were fortified by the efforts of one woman – Anita Bryant. Part document and part poem, “I Just Wanted To Be Somebody” brings us back to the late 1970’s and reflects on Bryant’s life and the impact she had.
Selected Screenings:
• Sundance Film Festival
• IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
• SF Frameline Film Festival
• Florida Rewind/Fast Forward Film Festival
• Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
Afraid So (2006)
Beta SP, B&W/color, 3 min.
Description: AFRAID SO is about fear and anxiety. It is based on a poem where each line forms a question with the implied response being “Afraid so”. Impending doom permeates the film.
Selected Screenings:
• Rotterdam International Film Festival
• Toronto International Film Festival
• Black Maria Film Festival – 2nd Prize
• Ann Arbor Film Festival - Honorable Mention
• Tribeca Film Festival
• San Francisco International Film Festival
• Seattle International Film Festival
• Hamburg International Short Film Festival
• Vila do Conde Short Film Festival
• Uppsala Short Film Festival, Sweden
• Pesaro Film Festival
• European Media Arts Festival
• California State Fair - Award of Merit & Video Lab Multimedia Award
• Zebra Poetry Film Festival – Special Praising Mention
Phantom Limb (2005)
Beta SP & 35mm, Color/B&W, 28 min.
Description: A film about grief and loss.
Awards:
• Best Short Documentary - Florida Film Festival
• Best Documentary - Belgrade Documentary and Short Film Festival, Serbia
• Onda Curta Short Film Award - IndieLisboa, Portugal
• Special Jury Award - Seattle International Film Festival
• Juror's Choice Award - Humboldt International Film Festival
• Honorable Mention - Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Best International Short - Prends ça court, Montreal
• Special Mention Award - Festival dei Popoli, Italy
• Special Mention Award - Imago Film Festival, Portugal
• Special Mention Award - Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Switzerland
• Special Mention Award - Punto de Vista Festival, Spain
• Distinguished Documentary Award nomination - International Documentary Association (IDA)
• First Prize - Black Maria Film & Video Festival
Selected Screenings:
• International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) – Silver Wolf competition
• Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, France
• Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland
• Visions Du Reel Documentary Film Festival, Switzerland
• Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• Tribeca Film Festival
• Chicago Documentary Film Festival
• I t’s All True Documentary Film Festival, Brazil
• Madrid Documentary Film Festival, Spain
• Cracow International Film Festival
• Athens Film & Video Festival
• Experimental Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
• Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival
• Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival
• Newport International Film Festival
• Seattle International Film Festival
• Nantucket Film Festival
• San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
I'm Charlie Chaplin (2005)
Beta SP, Color, 8 min.
Description: A little girl’s love for Charlie Chaplin and candy. (The third film in a series featuring the filmmaker’s daughter.)
Screenings:
• Taiwan International Documentary Film Festival – Audience Award
• International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) Silver Wolf Competition
• It’s All True Documentary Film Festival, Brazil
• Tribeca Film Festival
• Ukranian International Documentary Film Festival
• Pesaro Film Festival, Italy
• Pårnu Film Festival, Estonia
• Athens Film Festival
• Newport Film Festival
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Norwegian Short Film Festival
• Vancouver International Film Festival
• Comedy Film festival, Montreal
• Boston Jewish Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
I Like it Alot (2004)
Beta SP, Color, 4 min.
Description: A two year old, an ice cream cone and a clean, white shirt.
Screenings:
• Florida Film Festival
• Toronto International Film Festival
• Tribeca Film Festival
• International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA)
• Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Atlanta Film Festival
• Athens Film and Video Festival
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Newport Film Festival
• Pesaro Film Festival, Italy
• Chicago International Film Festival
• Dallas Video Festival
• One Reel Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Williamstown Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
I Used to Be a Filmmaker (2003)
35mm & Beta SP, Color, 10 min.
Description: A film about fatherhood and the bond between a father and his infant daughter. The filmmaker documents the first eighteen months of the child’s life, showing the progression from newborn to infant to toddler.
Awards:
• Aspen Shortsfest - Special Jury Award
• Nashville Film Festival – Best Documentary Short
• California State Fair – Award of Excellence
• Marin County Fair – Award winner
Screenings:
• • Tribeca Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Hot Docs, Toronto
• Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland
• It’s All True Documentary Film Festival, Brazil
• USA Film Festival
• Atlanta Film Festival
• Vancouver International Film Festival
• Margaret Mead Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Maui Film Festival
• Sidewalk Film Festival
• Uppsala Film Festival
• Chicago International Film Festival
• Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
• Sheffield Documentary Film Festival
• Palm Springs Short Film Festival
• Paris Rencontres
• One Reel Film Festival, Seattle,
• Viper Film Festival, Switzerland
• Cracow Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
• Pesaro Film Festival
• L’Alternativa Festival, Barcelona
• Nantucket Film Festival
• IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
• Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
• Docaviv, Israel
• Cinequest Film Festival, San Jose
• Rio Short Film Festival, Brazil
• Kansas City Jubilee
Friend Good (2003)
16mm, B&W, 5 min.
Description: Mary Shelley’s writing combines with Boris Karloff’s performance to re-work the story of Frankenstein. In five minutes the “monster” moves through the very human journey from self-hatred to self-acceptance
Screenings:
• Tampere Film Festival, Finland
• Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Pesaro Film Festival
• Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival
• Vancouver International Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
• Film Arts Festival, SF
Prayer (2002)
Color, Beta SP, 3 min.
Description: Faith and fear. Duck and cover. . One response to the events of September 11, 2001
Screenings:
• Toronto International Film Festival
• IDFA (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
• Tampere International Film Festival, Finland
• Black Maria Film Festival – 2nd Prize
• Aspen Shortsfest
• San Francisco International Film Festival
• Tampere Film Festival, Finland
Decidi! (2002)
Color, Beta SP, 1 min.
Co-directed with Stephanie Rapp
Description: It is either about indecision or maybe it is about making a decision. Maybe both?
Acquired by the Sundance Channel
Worm (2001)
Color, 16mm, 2 min.
"Worm" is a true story about an inexplicable childhood event.
Awards
• Juror’s Choice Award - Convergence Film/Video/Animation Festival
Screenings
• Ann Arbor Film Festival & Tour
• Palm Springs International Short Film Festival
• Chicago Underground Film Festival
• Milan Film Festival
• Short Attention Span Festival Tour
• Dallas Video Festival
Nine Lives: The Eternal Moment of Now (2001)
Color/B&W, 16mm, 1 min.
Awards:
• Best International Short, 1-Minute World Film Festival, 2001
• Best Short Short Award - Aspen Shortsfest
• Honorable Mention - Ann Arbor Film Festival
Selected Screenings:
• Sundance Film Festival
• Rotterdam Film Festival
• Oberhausen Film Festival
• Humboldt Film Festival
• Virginia Film Festival
• Florida Film Festival
• Images Film Festival, Toronto
• Nantucket Film Festival
• Sao Paulo International Shorts Film Festival
• Odense Film Festival, Denmark
• Rhode Island Film Festival
• Short Attention Span Film Festival Tour
• One-Reel Film Festival, Seattle
• Cinematexas Film Festival, Austin
• Brief Encounters Film Festival, UK
• L’Alternativa Festival, Barcelona
King of the Jews (2000)
Color/B&W, 16mm, 18 min.
Description: King of the Jews is a film about fear and transcendence. Utilizing Hollywood movies, 1950's educational films, personal home movies and religious films spanning the history of cinema, the filmmaker depicts his childhood fear of Jesus Christ. These childhood recollections are a point of departure for larger issues, including the roots of Christian anti-Semitism and the need for forgiveness and healing.
Awards:
• Grand Prize - USA Film Festival
• Best Editing Award - Ann Arbor Film Festival
• First Prize - Big Muddy Film Festival
• Best Experimental Film - Humboldt Film Festival
• First Prize - Black Maria Film Festival
• Grand Prize - Marin County Fair Film Festival
• Director’s Choice Award - Convergence Film Festival
Screenings:
• Sundance Film Festival
• Tampere International Short Film Festival, Finland
• Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
• Melbourne International Short Film Festival, Australia
• Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival, Portugal
• Images Film Festival, Toronto
• Odense Film Festival, Denmark
• Norwegian Short Film Festival, Norway
• Florida Film Festival
• It's All True Documentary Film Festival, Brazil
• Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
• Athens Film and Video Festival
• Wisconsin Film Festival
• Atlanta Film and Video Festival
• Carolina Film & Video Festival
• One Reel Film Festival, Seattle
• Denver International Film Festival
• San Francisco Cinematheque
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
• Film Forum, New York (part of one week theatrical run)
RESTRICTED (1999)
Color/B&W, 16mm, 1 min.
Description:
Take a chance. Don't do it.
This is America. Do it.
Award:
• Experimental Award, Athens International Film and Video Festival
Screenings:
• Sundance Film Festival
• Hamptons International Film Festival
• Shorts International Film Festival, N.Y.
• Hamburg International Short Film Festival (No-Budget)
• Ann Arbor Film Festival & Tour
• Florida Film Festival
• Film Arts Festival
• SF Cinematheque
• Bay Area Now
• Los Angeles Independent Film Festival
• Images Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
• IMPAKT Festival, The Netherlands
• Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema
• Short Attention Span Film Festival
• Film Forum, New York (part of one-week theatrical run)
• Artists Television Access, San Francisco
drop (1999)
Color, 35mm, 1 min.
Co-directed with Dina Ciraulo.
Description: The trials and tribulations of truly independent filmmaking.
Screenings:
• Classically Independent Film Festival
• Denver International Film Festival
• Mill Valley Film Festival
• Hamptons International Film Festival
• Film Arts Festival, SF
a pregnant moment (1999)
Color, 16mm, 24 min.
Funded by the Film Arts Foundation. Co-directed with Jennifer Frame.
Description: A film diary about birth, loss and near death.
Awards:
• Best Editing, Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1999
• Honorable Mention, Marin County Fair Film festival, 1999
Screenings:
• Sundance Film Festival, 1999
• Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, 1999
Human Remains (1998)
Color/B&W, 16mm, 30 min.
Co-produced by The Danish Film Institute Workshop with completion funding provided by the Film Arts Foundation.
Description: Human Remains is an experimental documentary which illustrates the banality of evil by creating intimate portraits of five infamous dictators.
Selected Awards:
• Distinguished Documentary Award, International Documentary Association, 1998
• Best Short Film, Hamptons International Film Festival, 1998
• Best Documentary, Aspen Shortsfest, 1998
• Grand Prize, Documentary, Vila do Conde Short Film Festival, Portugal, 1998
• Best Documentary, Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival, 1998
• Grand Jury Prize, Best Short Documentary, Florida Film Festival, 1998
• Best Short Film, Cinequest San Jose Film Festival, 1999
• Honorable Mention, Sundance Film Festival, 1998
• Best Novelle/Experimental Film, Odense Film Festival, Denmark, 1998
• Best of Festival & Audience Award, Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, 1998
• Best Experimental Film, Humboldt International Film Festival, 1998
• Juror's Choice, Charlotte Film & Video Festival, 1998
• Best Experimental Film, Marin County Fair Film Festival, 1998
• SECA Award, Museum of Modern Art, SF, 1998
• Silver Award, Experimental, Chicago Underground Film Festival, 1998
• Honorable Mention, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, 1998
Selected Screenings:
• Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany
• International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam
• Visions du Reel, Nyon, Switzerland
• Flaherty Film Seminar, NY
• Bilbao Documentary Film Festival, Spain
• Mumbai Film Festival, India
• IMPAKT Experimental Festival, The Netherlands
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
• San Francisco International Film Festival, CA
• Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
• Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Germany
• Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil
• Seattle International Film Festival, WA
• Amnesty International Film Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Image Forum, Tokyo, Japan
• Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada
• Visible Evidence Conference, San Francisco, CA
• DOCtober, Los Angeles - 1 week theatrical run
Period Piece (1996)
Color, Beta SP, 30 min.
Partial funding by The Pioneer Fund and Eastman Foundation.
Co-directed with Jennifer Frame
Description: Period Piece is a documentary about menarche--a girl's first menstrual period--which is a fundamental experience in every woman's life, yet one that is rarely celebrated. Women of different ages (8-84) and multi-cultural backgrounds tell their menarchal stories.
Awards:
• Bronze Apple, National Educational Media Network
• Honorable Mention, Columbus International Film Festival
Selected Screenings:
• Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1996
• Big Muddy Film Festival, 1996
• Women of Vision Series, KCSM, 1996
The Smell Of Burning Ants (1994)
Color/B&W, 16mm, 21 min.
Funded by Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship & Film Arts Foundation Grant
Description: The Smell of Burning Ants is a haunting account of the pains and trauma of growing up male. In a layered and non-didactic way, it details the process of emotional death many boys suffer as they are socialized to become men. The inner and outer cruelties that boys perpetrate and endure are evocatively presented. Rather than glorifying and romanticizing boyhood, this film opens up wounds to let the poisons out.
Awards:
• Grand Prize, Hamburg Film Festival
• Best of Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival
• Best of Festival, Humboldt Film Festival
• First Prize, Short Films, Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland
• First Place, Film, Athens International Film and Video Festival
• Best of the Best, Charlotte Film Festival
• First Prize, Film, VIPER Experimental Media Festival, Switzerland
• Best Experimental Film, Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia
• Best Experimental Film, Sinking Creek Film Festival
• Best Experimental Film, Big Muddy Film Festival
• Best Documentary, Tampere Short Film Festival, Finland
• First Prize, Independent Film, Marin County Fair
• Silver Medal, Carolina Film & Video Festival
• Artistic Courage Award, Florida Film Festival
• Second Prize, Copenhagen Film + Video Workshop Festival, Denmark
• Audience Choice Award, Onion City Film Festival
• Second Place, Experimental Film, Central Florida Film Festival
• Bronze Award, New York Film Expo
• Honorable Mention, Vila do Conde Shorts Film Festival, Portugal
• Honorable Mention, San Francisco International Film Festival
• Honorable Mention, Atlanta Film and Video Festival
• Special Mention, Nyon Visions du Reel Film Festival, Switzerland
Selected Screenings:
• Film Forum, New York, 2 week theatrical run, 1997
• Sundance Film Festival, 1995
• London Film Festival, 1995
• Hong Kong Film Festival, 1995
• Cracow International Short Film Festival, Poland, 1995
• Montreal Festival International du Nouveau Cinema, 1995
• Wellington Film Festival, New Zealand, 1995
• Pacific Film Archive, 1995
• San Francisco Cinematheque, 1994
• Seattle International Film Festival, 1995
• Cleveland International Film Festival, 1995
• Outfest, Los Angeles, 1995
• Film Forum, Los Angeles, 1994
• The Pleasure Dome, Toronto, 1994
• Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, 1994
• Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Brazil, 1995
• Auckland Film Festival, New Zealand, 1995
• European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany, 1995
• V'IENNALE Film Festival, Austria, 1995
• Boston Film Festival, 1995
• Umea Film Festival, Sweden, 1996
• Vancouver International Film Festival, 1995
• Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid, Spain, 1995
• Cork International Film Festival, Ireland, 1995
• Denver International Film Festival, 1994
• International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1995
• Acquired by The Australian National Library and the European Media Arts Tour
Short Of Breath (1990)
Color/B&W, 16mm, 10 min.
Funded by Film Arts Foundation Grant
Description: An emotional collage about birth, death, sex and suicide. It is a dissection of a psychotherapy session which takes the viewer on an uncomfortable journey through the emotional landscape of a depressed woman and her young son.
Awards:
• Best of Category, Bay Area Shorts, Golden Gate Awards, SF Int. Film Festival
• First Prize, Experimental Narrative, Athens International Film Festival
• Best Editing Award, Humboldt International Film Festival
• Judges' Commendation, Bucks County Independent Film Festival
• Second Place, Independent Film Category, Marin County Fair
• Judges' Award, Sinking Creek Film Festival
Selected Screenings:
• New Directors/New Films, New York, NY. 1991
• Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT, 1991
• Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1992
• Rotterdam International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Holland, 1991
• London International Film Festival, London, UK, 1991
• Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour (12 cities), 1991
• Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia, 1991
• Pesaro International Film Festival, Italy, 1991
• PS122, New York, 1991
• Acquired by the School of the Art Institute in Chicago for their collection.
Brain in the Desert (1990)
Color, 16mm, 5 min.
Co-directed with Jennifer Frame nee Seaman
Description: A film about relationships and insects. A couple realizes their problems lie in too much thinking.
Awards:
• Judges' Commendation, Bucks County Independent Film Festival
• Sinking Creek Film Festival
• Bucks County Independent Festival Tour (10 cities), 1991
Selected Screenings:
• Denver International Film Festival, Denver, CO. 1991
• Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI, 1991
• Film Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA, 1990
Paris X 2 (1988)
Color, 16mm, 26 min.
Description: An experimental re-telling of a love affair through fragments and distortions of memory. The narrative and myths of romantic love are deconstructed against a backdrop of Paris and Hollywood.
Awards:
• First Prize, Onion City Film Festival, 1989
• Director's Choice, Sinking Creek Film Festival, 1988
• Prize Winner, Palo Alto Film & Video Festival, 1988
Selected Screenings:
• Chicago Art Institute, 1996
• Film Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA, 1988
• Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY, 1989
• San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, CA, 1991
• Cork International Film Festival, Cork, Ireland, 1989
• Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA, 1989
• Acquired by the Videotheque de Paris for their collection
Blood Test (1985)
B&W, 16mm, 27 min.
Description: A man visits his parents and empties the contents of his mind through a series of absurd and serious vignettes. It explores the dynamics which form identity and self and at the same time help to deny them.
Awards:
• Ann Arbor Film Festival, 1986
• Sinking Creek Film Festival, 1986
Selected Screenings:
• KQED Frontal Exposures, San Francisco, CA, 1985
• Red Vic Movie House, San Francisco, CA, 1987
• Ann Arbor Film Festival National Tour, 1986
• IMPAKT Film Festival, The Netherlands, 1996
Doubt (1981)
B&W, 16mm, 11 min.
Description: A man is haunted by visions/memories of the holocaust.
Screenings:
• Student Film Festival, Eugene, OR, 1981
• Cinema 7, Eugene, OR, 1983
• Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA, 1990
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