Career
He is best known for the film, an avant-garde feature inspired by the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Wells" 1990 short film The Talking Rain played at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival. He exhibited sections of his Vietnam-inspired film and digital media installation Fragrance of Ghosts at William Paterson University in 2007.
Wells was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003.
In 2006, he was the recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts.