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The first film that I made was a "short film" for a Canadian rock group called Mandela that was in Los Angeles to appear on a KHJ Saturday evening dance program called Boss City. That was the spring of 1968. That experience changed my life. I thought I wanted to be a writer, but when I saw the images I had created appearing on the television set at home just a few days later, I knew what I wanted to do. It also led to buying my own camera, and attending the Monterey Pop Festival as the "official" Boss City filmmaker. Later that summer I made a film in my basement with another young filmmaker that appeared on the Smothers Brothers Show that fall, a 3 minute history of the United States called American Time Capsule. Wow, nationwide exposure! That year ended making an original film about the war in Viet Nam using a new song called "I am the Walrus" as the soundtrack. Yes, 1968 was a pivitol and productive year. I expect 1998 to provide the same excitement and productivity. We are entering a new era of not only film and video production, but distribution and delivery as well. Much more will be revealed! I'll keep you posted. |
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I've been making documentaries so long that when I made Ireland:
One Day Free , the "troubles" had just started! This photo
was taken in an Irish graveyard containing the remains of W.B. Yeats, about 2 months after
Sunday Bloody Sunday in 1972. This film was awarded the prize as Best
Political Film at the 1973 San Francisco Film Festival. Coming soon for home
video sale!
This location is near Ghost Ranch, in Abiqu New Mexico where I shot on
location for the Presbyterian Church U.S.A. in 1995. It is also noted as the area where
Georgia O'Keefe lived, painted, and died.