Dogme 08

I've spent three years in art history classes, roaming the vast digital wastelands of the surREALverse that is the internet and I have come to some conclusions.

Yves Klein, Andy Goldsworthy and Joseph Cornell are my holy trinity of artists.


Yves Klein


Andy Goldsworthy


Joseph Cornell

I realize that none of these people are "filmmakers" (except possibly Joseph Cornell), but their art has something that few other artists have and something that I want to bring to film.

Two Guiding Principles:
1. We must progress towards freeing cinema's voice. Film's voice may have been broadened by YouTube, but it is still not free. Until any unwed mother can grab a camera and make a movie, film will never truly be free.

2. Film must be conscious of it's chronol/spacial nature. A film is not the images on the screen. A film is the images, the place it is viewed in, the people who view it and all ideas and events that are spawned from it. Once again, this is something film is evolving towards, the absence of its "permanence" as itself. Someday a film will never be the same from one viewing to the next, but still be itself. Akin to John Cage's "4'33."


These two principles are the driving force behind what I do as a filmmaker and artist. Everyone must be able to make films. And it is my belief that if we can free Film from a fixed chronology, than we can free ourselves from our fixed viewpoint and move on to the forth dimension.

We are transcendent beings who can do more than watch a person open a door and cry. We can explore the macro-micro-verse in all of its expansive parallel glory.