I’m a visiting ‘special guest’ at the Vilnius Film Festival or Kino Pavasaris (Cinema Spring) as it’s known here, and I’m waiting to meet director (and fellow ‘special guest’) […]
Interview with Director Laura Schroeder (Barrage, 2017)
Composed predominantly of stillness with erratic musical outbursts, ‘Barrage’ focuses on a tri-generational rift in feminine identity building, in which each daughter fails to completely understand her own […]
Crowdfunding Campaign: Paradise, U.S.A.
As you may or may not already know from my stream-of-spam twitter, two dear friends of mine have launched a crowdfunding campaign to fund their first feature film. […]
Short Film Screening: OPEN KinoBerlino Screening Nr. 106, ‘Rough Around the Edges’
My latest short, ‘Rough Around the Edges,’ will be screening as part of OPEN KinoBerlino Screening Nr. 106! Please do come on down on APRIL 27th @ 10pm to come see […]
Short Film: Rough Around the Edges
Patreon Launch
It’s official, I’ve just launched my Patreon page, which allows you to choose from multiple subscription tiers, ranging from $1-$100 to receive different rewards and goodies! If you like […]
Berlinale #6: Eight Hours Don’t Make A Day (dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
“An eight-hour film spread across five feature-length episodes, the self-referential title of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Acht Stunden sind kein Tag (Eight Hours Don’t Make a Day, 1972-1973) opens […]
TROUT FUN: Tobias Burms on ‘Band of Angels’ (1957, dir. Raoul Walsh)
As the very first installment of TROUT FUN, an ongoing series of articles by guest writers and fellow critics, Tobias Burms weighs in on the romanticized take on the […]
Short Film: ORANGE
This is my latest short film and the second part of a quadrilogy-in-progress focused on the state of nature through the seasons. ORANGE is set in Winter and features a […]
Berlinale #5: ‘Golden Exits’ review
“Slowly we’re brought into a film through in-between spaces; Brooklyners out for their afternoon strolls lit by near-‘golden hour’ evening light underscored by leisurely relaxing piano notes which […]