In the winter of 1994, we made a road trip down to Louisville to shoot "Half-Cocked". My girlfriend, Suki, had studied film in college and dropped out of graduate film school at NYU to make the film. I shot it, with the help of David Ford who rented us his 16mm camera. Peter Schneider came to record dialog and was...
For the past 10 years we have been slowly working on two films. "All The Rage", about Dr. Sarno and mind body medicine, and "Conception" which is about nature vs. nurture and issues related to donor conception. A couple of years ago I was in Los Angeles for a couple of shoots for "All The Rage" and stayed...
Returning home to the town that one grew up in is often a disorienting experience. The Chapel Hill that I grew up in was largely static. When I started elementary school there were five of them in town as well as two junior high schools and a single high school. When I left for college none of this...
As we have worked on and written about All The Rage, we have focused a great deal on the role of our emotions in regards to both pain and our over all health. However we often lose sight of how our emotions interact with our intellect, defining our response to a given situation. Our emotions exist in relation to...
In 2004, when we set out to make a film about Dr. Sarno, we couldn’t have envisioned the movie that it has become. Over the last 10 years there has been a dramatic shift in the level of acceptance of the mind body connection in terms of health care. When we started trying to talk about the connection between emotions...
[caption id="attachment_18556" align="aligncenter" width="631"] Maps of the lymphatic system: old (left) and updated to reflect UVA's discovery. Credit: University of Virginia Health System [/caption] This morning a friend sent me an article about a "stunning new discovery". Scientists at the University of Virgina discovered that the lymphatic system, which is central to our immune response, is directly connected to...
millipede from rumur on Vimeo. About 2 years ago my wife and I took our kids from Brooklyn to temporarily live in the house in North Carolina that I grew up in. We came on a trial basis, but it has slowly become a semi-permanent situation. The wildly slower pace of life here has been embraced by the...
It rained last night, and it's cloudy. My favorite time to take pictures in the meadow is when the sun is just starting to rip past the trees. When it's cloudy it's often hard to find things to photograph because the flatness of the light makes it difficult to separate the foreground from the background; everything is kind...
We are at the point in editing "All The Rage" where we had hoped to include both the ideas and words of Jonah Lehrer. As I detailed in this piece a couple of years ago, while doing research for the film I came across an article that he wrote for Wired called, "Trials and Errors: Why Science is Failing...
Broken Angel film - rough trailer from rumur on Vimeo. In the fall of 2006 I had been shooting what would become Battle for Brooklyn for about 2 years. The film is about a community trying to save itself from being bulldozed for a basketball arena and massive development project. The site was only a few blocks from my...
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a post about our upcoming theatrical premiere for Who Took Johnny, and explained why were taking the distribution path that we were. We opened it in Des Moines because there were a couple of things we needed in order to legitimize the film; press and audience. We got them both in...