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WATCH IT HERE : https://vimeo.com/53804072

In April I took a little trip down the Mexico. I purposely left the camera at home and brought only a sound recorder and the sick addictive device that is the iphone. The idea was to not spend the entire trip behind the camera lens but to discover what could be created as an alternative…So, I resorted to my other (neglected) loves, illustration, photography and animation. It”s what a day in a small Mexican town felt like.

Last night Union Docs hosted a beautiful screening of shorts by the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, it included my short Gawking Red.

I’ve been deeply impressed by two films recently, one fiction and documentary.

Leo Carax’s Holy Motors is a must see, a very Brechtian approach to filmmaking. The viewer is never relaxed into a passive indulgence, but is continuously interrupted by new possibilities. The film is densely layered; it addressed our voyeuristic society, our need for sensationalism, how and why we are entertained. It very much comments on acting, roles and audience.


At the same time watching it, the viewer is trying to decipher between multiple realities, that on film and their own. What is real and for who?

What is beautiful and who decides it is so? It also brings to mind the idea of hybrid identities and as Audre Lorde would say, the possibility of being and assuming multiple identities at the same time.


At the other end…

In his 10 advice tips for aspiring filmmakers, the brilliant Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky says “Don’t film if you want to say something – just say it or write it. Film only if you want to show something, or you want people to see something. This concerns both the film as a whole and every single shot within the film.” Michael Glawogger’s Workingman’s Death is a perfect example.  The film covers volumes with its succinct simplicity. Just brilliant.


Enjoy.
Nov 19
WATCH IT HERE : https://vimeo.com/53804072 In April I took a little trip down the Mexico. I purposely left the camera at home and brought only a sound recorder and the sick addictive device that is the iphone. The idea was to not spend the entire trip behind the camera lens but to discover what could be created as an alternative…So, I resorted to my other (neglected) loves, illustration, photography and animation. It”s what a day in a small Mexican town felt like. Last night Union Docs hosted a beautiful screening of shorts by the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, it included my short Gawking Red. I’ve been deeply impressed by two films recently, one fiction and documentary. Leo Carax’s Holy Motors is a must see, a very Brechtian approach to filmmaking. The viewer is never relaxed into a passive indulgence, but is continuously interrupted by new possibilities. The film is densely layered; it addressed our voyeuristic society, our need for sensationalism, how and why we are entertained. It very much comments on acting, roles and audience. At the same time watching it, the viewer is trying to decipher between multiple realities, that on film and their own. What is real and for who? What is beautiful and who decides it is so? It also brings to mind the idea of hybrid identities and as Audre Lorde would say, the possibility of being and assuming multiple identities at the same time. At the other end… In his 10 advice tips for aspiring filmmakers, the brilliant Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky says “Don’t film if you want to say something – just say it or write it. Film only if you want to show something, or you want people to see something. This concerns both the film as a whole and every single shot within the film.” Michael Glawogger’s Workingman’s Death is a perfect example.  The film covers volumes with its succinct simplicity. Just brilliant. Enjoy.

Across the seas ::: http://vimeo.com/45797403

I’m dwelling in Mediterranean waters over the summer and working on my first full length documentary
that addresses the lives of political refugees and asylum seekers on the island of Cyprus. Specifically, it addresses tolerance, migration trends, nation-states/nation-building, changing global dynamics and collapse of Eurocentrism through the lens of current migration trends in Cyprus. It has been an interesting journey and a surreal one.

In between incomprehensible refugee stories of exile and plight I return to my life and consider my own reality.
It’s a difficult adjustment. But more than anything else, it reminds me to appreciate it all.
Here on a full moon night, we enjoy Xartini’s song…and appreciate the night.

On a filmic note :::
Here’s a brilliant film by Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidi that analyzes the crisis in Greece and elsewhere, political agendas and effects of privatization - it features Naomi Klein, Zizek and others. It’s brilliantly executed and free online ::: CATASTROIKA.

And another brilliant project from Greece, a web doc series that dig into all cultural, socio-economic aspects of the country ::: 
THE PRISM.

Enjoy.
Jul 16
Across the seas ::: http://vimeo.com/45797403 I’m dwelling in Mediterranean waters over the summer and working on my first full length documentarythat addresses the lives of political refugees and asylum seekers on the island of Cyprus. Specifically, it addresses tolerance, migration trends, nation-states/nation-building, changing global dynamics and collapse of Eurocentrism through the lens of current migration trends in Cyprus. It has been an interesting journey and a surreal one. In between incomprehensible refugee stories of exile and plight I return to my life and consider my own reality.It’s a difficult adjustment. But more than anything else, it reminds me to appreciate it all.Here on a full moon night, we enjoy Xartini’s song…and appreciate the night. On a filmic note :::Here’s a brilliant film by Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidi that analyzes the crisis in Greece and elsewhere, political agendas and effects of privatization - it features Naomi Klein, Zizek and others. It’s brilliantly executed and free online ::: CATASTROIKA. And another brilliant project from Greece, a web doc series that dig into all cultural, socio-economic aspects of the country ::: THE PRISM. Enjoy.

Over the weekend I went over to check in my friend Ronnie…walking into his studio in Tribeca is like walking into a rainbow…instant joy.

Here’s what Ronnie’s world feels like ::: http://vimeo.com/16841815

On a different note, I loved Omar Amiray’s film “Love Aborted” that screened as part of Experimentation in Arab Cinema program at MOMA last week… a really interesting documentary from 1985 on relationships between men and women in Egypt.

At the DOC NYC Fest, I didn’t connect much with Werner Herzog’s philosophies in his conversation with David Edelstein (film critic of New York Magazine)… though he did admit there is a possibility that he looks at (in this case) Weisman and verite film through “tunnel” vision…David, brilliantly challenged Herzog a few times with his questions…leaving a somewhat speechless Herzog….

it reminded me how important it is to provide room for openness. 
Nov 14
Over the weekend I went over to check in my friend Ronnie…walking into his studio in Tribeca is like walking into a rainbow…instant joy. Here’s what Ronnie’s world feels like ::: http://vimeo.com/16841815 On a different note, I loved Omar Amiray’s film “Love Aborted” that screened as part of Experimentation in Arab Cinema program at MOMA last week… a really interesting documentary from 1985 on relationships between men and women in Egypt. At the DOC NYC Fest, I didn’t connect much with Werner Herzog’s philosophies in his conversation with David Edelstein (film critic of New York Magazine)… though he did admit there is a possibility that he looks at (in this case) Weisman and verite film through “tunnel” vision…David, brilliantly challenged Herzog a few times with his questions…leaving a somewhat speechless Herzog…. it reminded me how important it is to provide room for openness. 

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Posted on Monday November 19th 2012 at 05:30pm. Its tags are listed below.

WATCH IT HERE : https://vimeo.com/53804072 In April I took a little trip down the Mexico. I purposely left the camera at home and brought only a sound recorder and the sick addictive device that is the iphone. The idea was to not spend the entire trip behind the camera lens but to discover what could be created as an alternative…So, I resorted to my other (neglected) loves, illustration, photography and animation. It”s what a day in a small Mexican town felt like. Last night Union Docs hosted a beautiful screening of shorts by the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, it included my short Gawking Red. I’ve been deeply impressed by two films recently, one fiction and documentary. Leo Carax’s Holy Motors is a must see, a very Brechtian approach to filmmaking. The viewer is never relaxed into a passive indulgence, but is continuously interrupted by new possibilities. The film is densely layered; it addressed our voyeuristic society, our need for sensationalism, how and why we are entertained. It very much comments on acting, roles and audience. At the same time watching it, the viewer is trying to decipher between multiple realities, that on film and their own. What is real and for who? What is beautiful and who decides it is so? It also brings to mind the idea of hybrid identities and as Audre Lorde would say, the possibility of being and assuming multiple identities at the same time. At the other end… In his 10 advice tips for aspiring filmmakers, the brilliant Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky says “Don’t film if you want to say something – just say it or write it. Film only if you want to show something, or you want people to see something. This concerns both the film as a whole and every single shot within the film.” Michael Glawogger’s Workingman’s Death is a perfect example.  The film covers volumes with its succinct simplicity. Just brilliant. Enjoy.
WATCH IT HERE : https://vimeo.com/53804072 In April I took a little trip down the Mexico. I purposely left the camera at home and brought only a sound recorder and the sick addictive device that is the iphone. The idea was to not spend the entire trip behind the camera lens but to discover what could be created as an alternative…So, I resorted to my other (neglected) loves, illustration, photography and animation. It”s what a day in a small Mexican town felt like. Last night Union Docs hosted a beautiful screening of shorts by the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, it included my short Gawking Red. I’ve been deeply impressed by two films recently, one fiction and documentary. Leo Carax’s Holy Motors is a must see, a very Brechtian approach to filmmaking. The viewer is never relaxed into a passive indulgence, but is continuously interrupted by new possibilities. The film is densely layered; it addressed our voyeuristic society, our need for sensationalism, how and why we are entertained. It very much comments on acting, roles and audience. At the same time watching it, the viewer is trying to decipher between multiple realities, that on film and their own. What is real and for who? What is beautiful and who decides it is so? It also brings to mind the idea of hybrid identities and as Audre Lorde would say, the possibility of being and assuming multiple identities at the same time. At the other end… In his 10 advice tips for aspiring filmmakers, the brilliant Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky says “Don’t film if you want to say something – just say it or write it. Film only if you want to show something, or you want people to see something. This concerns both the film as a whole and every single shot within the film.” Michael Glawogger’s Workingman’s Death is a perfect example.  The film covers volumes with its succinct simplicity. Just brilliant. Enjoy.

WATCH IT HERE : https://vimeo.com/53804072

In April I took a little trip down the Mexico. I purposely left the camera at home and brought only a sound recorder and the sick addictive device that is the iphone. The idea was to not spend the entire trip behind the camera lens but to discover what could be created as an alternative…So, I resorted to my other (neglected) loves, illustration, photography and animation. It”s what a day in a small Mexican town felt like.

Last night Union Docs hosted a beautiful screening of shorts by the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, it included my short Gawking Red.

I’ve been deeply impressed by two films recently, one fiction and documentary.

Leo Carax’s Holy Motors is a must see, a very Brechtian approach to filmmaking. The viewer is never relaxed into a passive indulgence, but is continuously interrupted by new possibilities. The film is densely layered; it addressed our voyeuristic society, our need for sensationalism, how and why we are entertained. It very much comments on acting, roles and audience.


At the same time watching it, the viewer is trying to decipher between multiple realities, that on film and their own. What is real and for who?

What is beautiful and who decides it is so? It also brings to mind the idea of hybrid identities and as Audre Lorde would say, the possibility of being and assuming multiple identities at the same time.


At the other end…

In his 10 advice tips for aspiring filmmakers, the brilliant Russian documentary filmmaker Viktor Kossakovsky says “Don’t film if you want to say something – just say it or write it. Film only if you want to show something, or you want people to see something. This concerns both the film as a whole and every single shot within the film.” Michael Glawogger’s Workingman’s Death is a perfect example.  The film covers volumes with its succinct simplicity. Just brilliant.


Enjoy.

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Posted on Monday July 16th 2012 at 07:52pm. Its tags are listed below.

Across the seas ::: http://vimeo.com/45797403 I’m dwelling in Mediterranean waters over the summer and working on my first full length documentarythat addresses the lives of political refugees and asylum seekers on the island of Cyprus. Specifically, it addresses tolerance, migration trends, nation-states/nation-building, changing global dynamics and collapse of Eurocentrism through the lens of current migration trends in Cyprus. It has been an interesting journey and a surreal one. In between incomprehensible refugee stories of exile and plight I return to my life and consider my own reality.It’s a difficult adjustment. But more than anything else, it reminds me to appreciate it all.Here on a full moon night, we enjoy Xartini’s song…and appreciate the night. On a filmic note :::Here’s a brilliant film by Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidi that analyzes the crisis in Greece and elsewhere, political agendas and effects of privatization - it features Naomi Klein, Zizek and others. It’s brilliantly executed and free online ::: CATASTROIKA. And another brilliant project from Greece, a web doc series that dig into all cultural, socio-economic aspects of the country ::: THE PRISM. Enjoy.
Across the seas ::: http://vimeo.com/45797403 I’m dwelling in Mediterranean waters over the summer and working on my first full length documentarythat addresses the lives of political refugees and asylum seekers on the island of Cyprus. Specifically, it addresses tolerance, migration trends, nation-states/nation-building, changing global dynamics and collapse of Eurocentrism through the lens of current migration trends in Cyprus. It has been an interesting journey and a surreal one. In between incomprehensible refugee stories of exile and plight I return to my life and consider my own reality.It’s a difficult adjustment. But more than anything else, it reminds me to appreciate it all.Here on a full moon night, we enjoy Xartini’s song…and appreciate the night. On a filmic note :::Here’s a brilliant film by Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidi that analyzes the crisis in Greece and elsewhere, political agendas and effects of privatization - it features Naomi Klein, Zizek and others. It’s brilliantly executed and free online ::: CATASTROIKA. And another brilliant project from Greece, a web doc series that dig into all cultural, socio-economic aspects of the country ::: THE PRISM. Enjoy.

Across the seas ::: http://vimeo.com/45797403

I’m dwelling in Mediterranean waters over the summer and working on my first full length documentary
that addresses the lives of political refugees and asylum seekers on the island of Cyprus. Specifically, it addresses tolerance, migration trends, nation-states/nation-building, changing global dynamics and collapse of Eurocentrism through the lens of current migration trends in Cyprus. It has been an interesting journey and a surreal one.

In between incomprehensible refugee stories of exile and plight I return to my life and consider my own reality.
It’s a difficult adjustment. But more than anything else, it reminds me to appreciate it all.
Here on a full moon night, we enjoy Xartini’s song…and appreciate the night.

On a filmic note :::
Here’s a brilliant film by Aris Chatzistefanou and Katerina Kitidi that analyzes the crisis in Greece and elsewhere, political agendas and effects of privatization - it features Naomi Klein, Zizek and others. It’s brilliantly executed and free online ::: CATASTROIKA.

And another brilliant project from Greece, a web doc series that dig into all cultural, socio-economic aspects of the country ::: 
THE PRISM.

Enjoy.

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Posted on Sunday November 14th 2010 at 04:29pm. Its tags are listed below.

Over the weekend I went over to check in my friend Ronnie…walking into his studio in Tribeca is like walking into a rainbow…instant joy. Here’s what Ronnie’s world feels like ::: http://vimeo.com/16841815 On a different note, I loved Omar Amiray’s film “Love Aborted” that screened as part of Experimentation in Arab Cinema program at MOMA last week… a really interesting documentary from 1985 on relationships between men and women in Egypt. At the DOC NYC Fest, I didn’t connect much with Werner Herzog’s philosophies in his conversation with David Edelstein (film critic of New York Magazine)… though he did admit there is a possibility that he looks at (in this case) Weisman and verite film through “tunnel” vision…David, brilliantly challenged Herzog a few times with his questions…leaving a somewhat speechless Herzog…. it reminded me how important it is to provide room for openness. 
Over the weekend I went over to check in my friend Ronnie…walking into his studio in Tribeca is like walking into a rainbow…instant joy. Here’s what Ronnie’s world feels like ::: http://vimeo.com/16841815 On a different note, I loved Omar Amiray’s film “Love Aborted” that screened as part of Experimentation in Arab Cinema program at MOMA last week… a really interesting documentary from 1985 on relationships between men and women in Egypt. At the DOC NYC Fest, I didn’t connect much with Werner Herzog’s philosophies in his conversation with David Edelstein (film critic of New York Magazine)… though he did admit there is a possibility that he looks at (in this case) Weisman and verite film through “tunnel” vision…David, brilliantly challenged Herzog a few times with his questions…leaving a somewhat speechless Herzog…. it reminded me how important it is to provide room for openness. 

Over the weekend I went over to check in my friend Ronnie…walking into his studio in Tribeca is like walking into a rainbow…instant joy.

Here’s what Ronnie’s world feels like ::: http://vimeo.com/16841815

On a different note, I loved Omar Amiray’s film “Love Aborted” that screened as part of Experimentation in Arab Cinema program at MOMA last week… a really interesting documentary from 1985 on relationships between men and women in Egypt.

At the DOC NYC Fest, I didn’t connect much with Werner Herzog’s philosophies in his conversation with David Edelstein (film critic of New York Magazine)… though he did admit there is a possibility that he looks at (in this case) Weisman and verite film through “tunnel” vision…David, brilliantly challenged Herzog a few times with his questions…leaving a somewhat speechless Herzog….

it reminded me how important it is to provide room for openness. 

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