MA | Visual Literacy
I’m an award-winning documentary filmmaker (but then, who isn’t), the founder of Blinktank, a collective of media producers and analysts (www.blinktank.net), and a blogger for The Public Humanist (www.valleyadvocate.com). I have been dangerously overeducated at Columbia University, the University of Chicago, and Harvard University (B.A., M.A., M.A.), and correctively, by the Taliesin Fellowship, the U.S. Arm,y and the Boston Public Schools.
For the past twenty years I’ve been teaching and developing media production and media literary curricula at venues in New England, among them: The Rockport International Film and Television Workshops, Boston University, The University of Massachusetts, The Boston Film/Video Foundation, Cityscape Film, The Boston Children’s Museum, the Boston Neighborhood Network, Cambridge Community Television, and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. I’ve recently been designated by the Massachusetts Cultural Council as a Creative Teaching Partner both for Artistic Residencies and for Curriculum Development in Massachusetts secondary schools.
I’ve also developed seminars on Film and Architecture and Visual Literacy for the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture. I’m a past member of the National Endowment for the Arts Advisory Committee on Arts Education. My documentaries include Conservation of Matter: The Fall and Rise of Boston's Elevated Subway (which won the 1996 New England Film/Video Festival and the 1997 U.S. Super 8mm Film & Video Festival), and Shooting the Strangler’s Wife, a documentary on the making of a Roger Corman produced ‘exploitation’ film. I’m currently working on a documentary about credit cards and the culture of debt, and another one on courtship. (Shorter pieces can be found under Blinktank on www.youtube.com.) I speak passable German, bad Spanish and worse French. When not teaching or editing, I like to pull invasive bushes out by their roots with tractor and chain while listening to Billie Holiday through noise cancelling headphones.