AWIB Teaser - Trailer

Here is a little teaser of my latest film shot here in Berlin starring Lydia Schamschula. I hope you enjoy.

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Director/ Cinematographer Reel

I’ve put together a reel showing my work up to date.  I hope you enjoy.

Forced Perspective-Trailer

This is a film I finished editing in Berlin and am currently sending out to festivals.  Wish me luck.

There are two major factors that lend me a deep personal joy towards this video or rather the process of capturing it.  One: the myriad films on child exploration during my earliest years, specifically Goonies, The Explorers, and Stand By Me.  Two: Growing up in a small town with two brothers separated in age by only a handful of years.  I fondly remember us taking a small zodiac boat along the farmland edged delta in search of an abandoned structure we could explore and in most cases destroy.  I found this abandoned schoolhouse during my failed attempt to break into the old Spreewald Amusement park, it too having been abandoned about 10 years ago.  So no overgrown Ferris wheel or gloomy fiberglass dinosaurs on this series.  Stay tuned in the near future for this, and in the meantime, enjoy the rich textures of an old schoolhouse in Treptower park.

Sprockets und fisch?       One of our stops during the overwhelming Gallery Weekend Berlin.  The Freies Museum Berlin turned out to be my personal favorite of the several independent exhibits during this weekend.  This space was both inviting and enticing.  I felt like I could breathe and take my time with each piece, a bit of calm in madness that is gallery weekend berlin.   Here is a piece that caught the attention of my lens, and so I thought I’d share it with you.  Enjoy!

Boat-Basement-Bike The order of the day as seen through yours truly.  Locations: Frankfurter Alle, The Zone, The Strasse outside the zone shortly thereafter.  This was the order of the day, and luckily for me it lead to a 200 square foot basement filled arm to arm with sweaty drunk Berliners listening to the melancholic music of Molly Nillson.  The Zone is an apartment turned bar in southeast Berlin where the disheveled barkeeps are at a constant reorganization.  The boat?  Well simply enough a fish out of water catches my attention every time.  The bike?  In a city where most neighborhoods end in berg(mountain) it is flat as a pancake.  As a result, the streets are most often navigated by these heavy yet trustworthy bikes.  This little guy lights my path home night after night.