I share with Ed Wood a fondness for stock footage. There, I hope, the similarities end.
The New York Earth Room and The Lightning Field I first heard about Walter De Maria back in the 80s. I was working in Soho at the time and someone or something brought The New York Earth Room to my attention. I … Continued
Here’s an encore post, written four (FOUR!) years ago, with the first bit of video we shot for A Life’s Work. I hope you like it. I was having lunch with my friend and colleague, cinematographer Wolfgang Held (who shot … Continued
There are many “how tos” out there, but since we learn as much, if not more, from our mistakes as from our successes, I thought it might also be useful to write some posts on “how not to make a … Continued
It’s time for another installment of “Ask the Filmmaker!” JC asked this on the A Life’s Work Facebook page. Dear Filmmaker: Just wondering how Paolo Soleri dying will affect your very interesting film A Lifes Work? Soleri’s death in … Continued
Paolo’s mind was always going out into the cosmos. I learned how much you can do with very little, the potential of simplicity and the ability to make unbelievable things from modest means, to dream huge dreams. Will Bruder, AIA, … Continued
I have no illusions about my relationship with Paolo Soleri and Arcosanti. I was never a workshopper and I never lived there. I am an outsider, and worse than that, a filmmaker, that breed of human notorious for dropping in, … Continued
As I was writing the How to Conduct an Interview posts (pt. 1 & pt. 2), someone posted a link on a documentary listserv I belong to, a link with tips on how to shoot an interview. The tips are … Continued
A long, long time ago, about a thousand years ago, I had the idea for this film and the first person I reached out to was Paolo Soleri. As I wrote in a very early post, we spoke on the … Continued
One of the reasons I keep blogging is it seems to lead A Life’s Work down roads it might not otherwise go down. Case in point: Jeff Stein, AIA In the summer of 2012 I had the idea of conducting … Continued