Before I made films, I made photographs, and those photographs were related to documentation. My first shoot was at a Klan rally and my first project was documenting people in malls. At around the same time, I also started to shoot bands and that gave me the first real outlet for my work. Sharing those images with fanzines and with...
Most stereotypes have some truth to them -but it’s how those shreds of truth are twisted that leads to the kind of dehumanization that is seen in this ad. My father, who was Jewish, didn't love money so much as he hated to spend it. We got our winter coats in May (when they were practically giving them away) and...
While we were in the late stages of making "All The Rage," my partner Suki was very focused on the edit, and I began to shoot more on a separate project - work related to protest. The short pieces I was making were part of the process of constructing the film we'd finish next, "Working In Protest". As this film...
We moved to North Carolina 5 years ago so this is probably the 6th fair I have hit to take pictures. You can find more here and here and here. ...
This morning I woke up early because I needed to help my daughter study for a test that she was feeling extreme anxiety about. The anxiety was so intense that we didn't talk about the test at all, but instead I tried to help her process, and let go of, the anxiety. We made a little bit of progress and...
On a trip to Buenos Aires we went to the horse races. ...
Working In Protest from rumur on Vimeo. Last year we released a film called "Working In Protest" which was built from 30 years of work documenting various protests. The film was not a survey of protest in America, but instead a somewhat personal film constructed from work we had shot for various projects- and partly from pieces we made once we...
One of the first questions I am asked at most screenings of All the Rage is, "How's your back?" or "Are you better?" My answer is that I'm doing great, but I'm also human. Things crop up, and the more work I do, the more equipped I am to deal with the issues that arise. I have hit the...
This weekend I started to think about the Wizard- the one behind the curtain in "The Wizard of Oz". I began to make the connection between the story of the film and the story of how our emotions shape our relationship to the world, including our sense of our own health. I found a few clips from the film on-line...
I'm on day 13 of an Oprah and Deepak 21 day meditation program. It's actually day 17, but I have been traveling, making it difficult to find the time to meditate, so I've missed the last few days. These 21-day programs are designed to guide the participant to go deeper into esoteric concepts through a carefully structured program, and the...
Last night I was driving home from dinner when I heard a discussion with Nathaniel Rich, author of a full NY Times Magazine devoted to looking at the science of Climate Change. The discussion was devastating to listen to because it painted a picture of a dire situation that was close to being solved 30 years ago. A couple of...
[caption id="attachment_23495" align="aligncenter" width="640"] An illustration from the Vox article using my photo of Dr Sarno[/caption] About a year ago Vox ran an article on all of the science about Back Pain treatments, and it failed to mention Dr Sarno. This was a particularly egregious omission because the article was largely based on a book by Cathryn Ramin called "Crooked: Outwitting...