filmmaking | Marginalia

“So, like right now, for example the Haitians need to come to America. But some people are all, ‘What about the strain on our resource..

Mine and Emily’s thesis film Boyhood is in the finishing stages. In layman’s terms, that means the picture edit is locked, the sound d..

Imagine, if you will, a fantasy world where you play God. Beings come into existence at your whim and fade away at your mercy. Vast ca..

Back home, kind of around the time MTV’s The Hills was a thing, my good friend Sarah and I devised a world where we were the stars of ..

“…I must be the only one out there that’s stuck! I suck!” Sound familiar? So how do you power through the self-pity of feeling stuck? Read on!

Last weekend, the graduate students in the Film & Video Department wrapped the remainder of our first-semester productions. Sixteen sh..

‘Karen requests that we all bring our laptops to class on Tuesday’, Joe’s email read. This should have triggered some suspicion, but i..

My stomach sunk. I wanted to curse God, gremlins, and the film cage but I only had myself to blame.

When I started the documentary I went to bouts, read books, and watched other documentaries. That, my friend, is called, “research.”

Like most strokes of genius it’s one of those ideas that is so simple you wonder why no one has done it before.