About The Series:
I started the Life Chronicles series as a form of reflective therapy, to help understand the world, and my perception of it. I turned the camera on my own life, along with whoever else wanted to be involved. I’d roll for years, documenting any event that had significance, until I felt a conclusion had been reached.
I began to see the format of the ‘home movie’ as an art form that could be elevated.
My approach was to take the traditional process of filmmaking and turn it upside down – by letting the actual storyline be the last part of the puzzle to be included. Before I’d approach the hundreds of hours of material, I’d meditate until I decided what the past few years had meant, what I’d learned, and how things had changed. Then I could start editing, with the themes and story arc in my mind, and sculpt the footage into a narrative.
I found cathartic joy in making a movie that absolutely no one else could, because only I had access to those private scenes. And just as I didn’t know what was around the corner as the days went by, the viewer won’t know either, as the video plays out.
Future historians will not turn to big budget studio films in order to learn how we lived. They will study the massive body of online video work, recorded by regular people of that period, to see an unfiltered view of those times. These images and memories will be of far more cultural importance than mainstream cinema could possibly offer.
All The Way Home – 1hr 44min – 2003-2009 (2025 Restoration)
The Rythum, Beauty and Power that the lake possesses – 60min – 2009-2010 (2025 Restoration)
FEET – 59min – 2010-2013 (2025 Restoration)
