Career
Bob Sarles began making films in 8mm and Super8, and videos on half inch reel to reel video in the early 1970s as a teen in the suburbs of Buffalo, New New York He received his Bachelors Degree in Broadcasting and Film from Boston University, where he co-produced and edited the short documentary Fantastic. Sarles spent time at University of California, Los Angeles"s graduate film school before moving to San Francisco, where he began his professional career as a film editor and later founded his own production company Ravin" Films, Incorporated.
He edited three of the first four seasons of the Music Television"s ground breaking reality television series The Real World.
He has edited award winning music videos for top rock, rap and country artists such as ZZ Top"s 1984 Music Television Best Group Video for Legs and Green Day"s 1994 Music Television Best Group Video nomination for Longview.
Sarles edited the cult zombie horror film The Video Dead, and the feature documentary The True Adventures Of The Real Beverly Hillbillies. He co-produced and edited the feature documentary film Wrestling With Satan.
He was principal cinematographer and co-producer of the feature documentary Son Of A Bitch! As an assistant editor, Sarles worked on the editorial staff of feature films including The Right Stuff, Henry & June, My Blue Heaven and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. He was a sound editor on Breakin", Romero, and The Money Tree.
Sarles was a producer and editor of Video Hits One"s Behind The Music and was a consulting producer on the Public Broadcasting Service documentary Respect Yourself: The Stax Records Story.
He directed and edited films that are on display at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Experience Music Project in Seattle, and the Stax Museum of American Soul Music in Memphis. Sarles has directed music videos for Otis Redding and Jorma Kaukonen. He co-produced, directed and edited the triple platinum selling Digital Video Disc series Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live for Time Life.
He directed and edited the DVDs Fly Jefferson Airplane and John Lee Hooker: Come See About Maine for Eagle Rock Entertainment.
Recording artists Sarles has worked with as a director and videographer include Carlos Santana, John Mayer, Elvis Costello and Coldplay. Since 1995, Sarles has produced and edited artist tribute films for the annual Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies.
Sarles produced and directed the documentary film "Sweet Blues: A FIlm About Mike Bloomfiled" that was included as a Digital Video Disc in the Columbia/Legacy boxed set Michael Bloomfield: From His Head to His Heart to His Hands. Michael Bloomfield.
