Documentary

OCCUPY LA: Scenes From The New Revolution//PT-1: A Year Of Dissent

January 6, 2012

  Scenes From The new Revolution is a 5-part doc series that I wrote/directed and produced/withTakePart; the on-line aspect of  Participant Media. I spent 7 weeks in a tent at City Hall shooting as the ideological mercury congealed on the steps of just outside the Mayor’s office attracting an endless chorus of relevant causes. The series that [...]

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ON SKID ROW doc series

March 19, 2010

On Skid Row is a 5-part doc series i wrote directed and produced for Good Magazinee videos)

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Shipibo Shop

October 22, 2009

The Shipibo Shop is on a ruddy sand road about a half hour’s walk from Espiritu De Anaconda near Iquitos, Peru. Bastian is from Belgium. He and and his wife Vanessa, the daughter of Kestenbetsa, are the proprietors. They buy the stuff from Shipibas in Pucallupa.

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le musee du fumeur

July 27, 2009

I met Tigrane and Michka in Paris a couple of months ago…. Tigrane and Michka went out for dinner. They were going to stop at the tobacco museum first. The restaurant was lovely, but the museum was long gone… disappeared to a pile of ruble. Vanished in the vapours, but not to worry… everything worked [...]

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Jan Kounen

July 2, 2009

  Jan Kounen‘s Ayahuasca documentary Other Worlds is an epic document. It features Shipibo Shaman Guillermo Arévalo Valera aka Kestenbesta, a Shipibo curandero descended from a long generation of healers of the Shipibo Conibo indigenous Amazonian people.   In the realm of shamanic documentaries, there isn’t one that is better for several reasons. Jan Kounen [...]

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