Education
University of Arizona. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
University of Arizona. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
His second feature Louisiana Trinchera Luminosa del Presidente Gonzalo (60 minutes, 2007) is about a day in the life of a Shining Path women"s prison cellblock. He has been making short films and videos since 1999. His work is available through the Video Data Bank and Facets Digital Video Disc. He was born in 1968 in Saint Louis, Missouri.
He went to graduate school at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and studied Creative Writing at the University of Arizona.
He teaches video and writing at Emerson College. He started making movies in Chicago in the late 1990s and became a fixture on the microcinema scene.
His short videos appeared at festivals like the International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Impakt Festival, Los Angeles Freewaves and many others His first feature, Interkosmos premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2006 and was called a "retro gust of communist utopianism" in the Village Voice.
His second feature made the Top 10 in Experimental Film at the Village Voice in 2007.