For the last two weeks, Suki has been going through our older footage of Dr. Sarno. We only have about 8 hours of tape from our early shoots, but the majority of it is strong, and the passage of time makes it more powerful. Yesterday she showed me a clip from 2004 of Dr. Sarno saying in French, “The more...
One of the first airlines that I joined as a frequent flier was American Airlines. After that, I got an American Airlines credit card. The other day, I checked my account and was surprised to find that I had racked up nearly 450,000 miles, nearly half a million. 350,000 of those are actual miles flown. I’ve always been anti-elitist, so...
this is a very long post, but I think it's worth the read. I was trying to connect a lot of ideas that are related to "Story of Pain". The other day I was texting with a friend in Billings, MT when my phone rang. I answered, assuming it was she, but instead found myself listening to a United Airlines supervisor...
I have been meditating fairly regularly since this fall. I have found it to be extremely useful in all aspects of my life. As I have worked on Story of Pain the last couple of years I have tried to point the camera at myself from time to time to document my own healing process. I haven't done it recently...
My cousin Ed brought his daughter Arianna to visit for my daughter’s birthday. Ed has had a very deep influence on my thinking. About 25 years ago we went for a run together and he talked to me about his study of the history of physics. He explained that as scientists get a deeper understanding of something, the science becomes...
When we look backwards and find that the unthinkable has become the norm, it creates a frame through which we can examine the present. By “the unthinkable”, I am referring to ideas that are either so embedded in our culture that they are like stenches that we cannot smell, or run so counter to the prevailing cultural way of thinking,...
After my crazy flight to Billings I got off the plane and started shooting. I won't go into details of the shoot as it's in its early stages. I shot pretty much constantly from 1 that afternoon until 1 two days later. Then I got on a bus in Billings and headed to Missoula. I got some great pictures on...
On Sunday I left home for a wild trip with an overpacked schedule. Within 24 hours I had traveled from Chapel Hill to Denton TX, where I showed a film, saw three amazing bands, connected with old friends and made new ones, slept for 4 hours, met a brilliant man on a plane, and came close to dying over Wyoming....
Earlier this week my friend Tara posted a photo I took of her and a few friends and wrote. ALRIGHT. its my very first throwback thursday. cuz we were about to shoot this moving document 20 YEARS AGO today. Cynthia Nelson, Jon Cook, Jeff Mueller, T Sean Meadows, Michael Galinsky, Kristin Furnish-Noble and everyone else. Miss you people. Carry on...
For some reason, when we were kids my father would give us rasainettes on Valentines Day. He’d wrap them up in red tissue paper and hand them to us when he came home from work. We weren’t big on ceremony, but this was one tradition he usually kept. My younger daughter was excited about going to school today and giving every...
On their way to join the Weezer booze cruise the band Caveman stopped in Carrboro NC to play at the new back room at Cat's Cradle. The lead singer's mother is a good friend of mine, and former music teacher of my daughter's at PS 11 in Brooklyn. I went to the show and brought my camera. It's the first...
we are working on a film about the relationship between stress and pain. The film focuses on Dr. John Sarno. Jonathan Ames, who referenced Dr. Sarno's book "Healing Back Pain, on his show HBO "Bored to Death" is in the film. On Saturday I picked up his book "The Alcoholic". Last night after Phillip Seymour Hoffman had passed away I...