Everyone needs their own butler.

As part of an annual corporate awards show, employees were asked to submit their ideas for short films that would introduce each award category. In the category of "Best Internal Initiative", our London office replied with one word: Butlers. I shot and edited the ensuing silliness, starring Ron Severdia and John Besford.


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I shot this reel during a weekend spent with the usual suspects, eating Hog Island Oysters and watching the fog creep in at a summer house  in Dillion Beach, CA. The plot's a little thin, but a beautiful cast and nice scenery make up for it.


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A piece I created for group101sf, working with the theme "ends as it begins". Starring Brad Murphy in shorty pajamas. . . not to be missed.


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Each new Group 101 filmmaker creates their first film working with the same parameters: "pain" in under 3 minutes. Here's my pain project, featuring Christian Guler and the voice of Chandra Hagopian.


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Just another day in the life of a group101sf filmmaker. Featuring Dave Skaff and a cast of several.


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Hate. . . American style. A group101sf collaborative project.


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For New Years Eve 2004, Bay Area promoters of the "Mission '04" event wanted to personally welcome their guests to the New Year as midnight approached. To enhance the party's space-travel theme, we staged the unlikely astronauts in an orbiting space station, shooting the live-action elements against a green screen and compositing them into a beautifully detailed CG environment created by the talented Steven McEuen; Sound Designer Andy Johnson supplied sound effects to complete the scene; expert production assistance (dangling zero gravity objects with a fishing pole) provided by David Dennick.

Don't ask me how racquetball glasses were supposed to add to the authenticity. . . but I'm pretty sure that NASA does actually stock the International Space Station with plenty of Capri-Sun. Tang is, like, so totally Skylab.

There's also a gallery of production stills here.


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Producer Dave Skaff and I created this ridiculous parody of VH1's even more ridiculous "Behind the Music" for The Webby Awards, finally revealing to fans everywhere  the heart-touching, cautionary tale of "Best Personal Website" award winner John Halcyon Styn, a.k.a The Cocky Bastard.


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A late summer afternoon spent in my mom's garden with family and friends. Music: "The Process of Leaving" from the album "Parking Lot Music" by E*vax, Audio Dregs Recordings.


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3000 miles in 3 minutes. A summertime excursion across the Western US, captured on Super 8 film. Music: "We Believe in Broken Bones" from the album "Parking Lot Music" by E*vax, Audio Dregs Recordings.


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