The Photo Album
April 7, 2025
(1986) A short movie I filmed with my Frezzolini 16mm camera in 1986 and finally edited in 2019. A young mother introduces her daughters to the family photo album. [...]
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That Time I Was Interviewed by Huell Howser
August 7, 2024
Way back in the summer of 2005, I was vacationing with my sons at Camp Mather in the Hetch Hetchy valley up in the Sierra Nevada. While there, we decided to take a hike around the reservoir behind the O’Shaughnessy Dam (the one from which the city of San Francisco gets its water.) After we [...]
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Fine Arts Film Festival 2023
June 8, 2023
My film, Photo Center, will be shown online at the Fine Arts Film Festival in Venice, CA on June 15-22. I am so honored to be selected for this prestigious festival! Entry to the festival is $15. You can browse the selection of films in the festival catalog: [...]
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Kubrick vs Lynch: A ChatGPT Perspective
April 17, 2023
I’m letting ChatGPT have a swing at today’s blog post. I decided to give the technology a crack at comparing my two favorite directors.(I also found a Midjourney image of a theater designed by Kubrick and Lynch.) My request to ChatGPT: “Write a blog post comparing the films of Stanley Kubrick to the films of [...]
Filmmaking
Good Article About a Dumb Idea
January 3, 2023
I am a super-fan of 24fps filmmaking. For the life of me, I cannot understand why filmmakers such as Ang Lee and James Cameron keep trying to push higher frame rates on the viewing public. Or why high end television manufacturers sell screens with high frame rate turned on by default. (I don’t know how [...]
Filmmaking
Santa Cruz
August 7, 2022
Earlier this summer, Aaron and I traveled to Santa Cruz to capture some drone shots at golden hour. I brought along my Sigma fp and gimbal to film some 4K footage. I was also eager to try out the stereo microphone that I own to add to the verisimilitude of the scene. I made a [...]
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I’m Certifiably Certified!
August 6, 2022
Well, it took about six months, many emails, and a lot of phone calls with my advisor but I’ve finally received the three certificates in filmmaking that I’ve earned at CCSF. I’m especially proud of the Directing and Cinematography certificates. I have one final required class which I’m taking in the upcoming semester and I’ll [...]
Filmmaking
Embarcadero
May 24, 2022
(2022) Here is a short film I made to test the capabilities of my new Sigma fp camera. I took my camera and my 28mm and 85mm Pentax lenses down to the San Francisco waterfront for a walk. I filmed whatever looked interesting with an eye toward testing the Sigma fp’s ability to capture color [...]
Documentary
Photo Center
May 18, 2022
(2022) A profile of the film photographer Rey Cayetano Jr. and the Harvey Milk Photo Center in San Francisco, California. As a lifelong lover of film photography, I was eager to capture the process in my documentary. I am fortunate that San Francisco Parks and Recreation Department provides the Harvey Milk Photo Center for San [...]
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Overlord Is Watching You
December 5, 2021
Another throwback video from early film school. I wrote and lensed this sci-fi scene for one of my first film classes. Classic! [...]
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