After making a recent HD remaster of my old student film "8:00 a.m.," I decided to have one made for "Vince Germain in Divine Intervention." This was a short film from my senior year at Vassar College, and I was the DP. I had a blast playing with pseudo-film-noirish shadows and camera angles, but there was one near-disaster that I must take the blame for: I once left one of my lighting "cookies" (a large sheet of cardboard I'd cut with horizontal lines for shadow effects) sta

Next Thursday, June 20th, The Queen Mary will be hosting a free double-bill of Raiders of the Lost Ark and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It will feature a themed costume contest, with prizes including some prints of my Raiders artwork, and a limited supply of enamel pins. This summer, the Queen Mary invites the community to join us for FREE screenings of celebrated films at one of SoCal's most unique outdoor movie locations! Join us for the second night of our Movie N

Having recently moved, I was going through a lot of old photos and videos, and rediscovered the original film print of my first student short, "8:00 a.m." I finally decided to splurge and have a new HD transfer made at FotoKem. (Click here to see the short film.) This was made while a student at Vassar College back in the spring of 1995. Shot on 16mm with two non-sync magnetic soundtracks, and cut entirely with only a single workprint -- using "cut-and-splice" editing and no