I am often asked about how I can juggle being a full-time teacher and a full-time filmmaker. Honestly, I don’t give it much thought, it is just something I do and have done for a long time. Ten years ago
The Office
I tell students often that the hardest part of being a filmmaker is getting the job. Once you get the job you just do what you have been training to do and the work should be easy. But that’s not
Let’s Play Two!
With apologies to Ernie Banks, Jim and I played a doubleheader today. At 7:00 this morning we shot one of our Teen Parents as she spoke to a group of high school students about the choices she made and how
Reading Mary Beth
Today is my sister’s birthday. And in lieu of giving her anything tangible for her birthday, (cheapskate, busy) I am going to post a piece I originally wrote for Book Magazine in 2002. In the magazine they gave us the
The Experience
If you can just get your mind together then come across to me.We’ll hold hands and then we’ll watch the sun rise from the bottom of the sea.But firstAre you experienced?Have you ever been experienced?Well I have.— Jimi Hendrix Towards
The Graduate
I was struck dumb the other day (an easy pose for me) when I saw the release of the special 40th Anniversary edition DVD of The Graduate. I have seen The Graduate maybe 20 times, maybe more. It’s one of
Pulp
The first semester I was a college teacher I began receiving treatments for films that went a little like this: Two hit men, one black and one white, in black suits travel around the city. or A man with a
The Classic Film
There is something really comforting in that old stand by, the classic film. It’s that film you have seen a half dozen times at least, or you flip on the TV and there it is and you sit down and
Improvisation
I like to joke that as a teacher I make it up as I go along. All that preparation- who needs it? If I wanted to do homework I would be a student not a teacher. I am mostly joking,
Collaboration part 3
We made it. Flashpoint Academy opened its doors on Monday and welcomed their first class. Monday was orientation and as part of it we screened Dean Paula Froehle’s film, “The Collector,” and our “making of The Collector” documentary. The similarities
