2014-2017

Psychomanteum – 1hr 20min

‘The Rythum’, and ‘FEET’, shined a light on the positive side of my human experience.  On the opposite end of that spectrum, however, is ‘Psychomanteum’.  I made it during the darkest period of my life, in an attempt to make sense of the trauma I’d endured.  I don’t know if I ever will.   

If finding the connecting themes and storylines for my previous entries came together with an intuitive ease, that wasn’t the case with this project.  The real story had taken place during my incarceration in an Idaho prison, for a crime I didn’t commit.  How could I take hundreds of hours of random footage and create a narrative, when the core event happened in a jail cell?     

I wrote and published a memoir – ‘Hands Down: A Story of Incarceration’.  As of Sept. 2nd 2025, it has remained on Amazon’s top 100 free memoirs for 8 consecutive years.  I let that speak for itself.  Then, I realized that the documentary I struggled to finish should be centered around two separate road trips.  The first one happened before the chaos, in 2014.  Before my wife and I amicably got divorced and went our separate ways, we traveled throughout the south, investigating haunted hotels, in an attempt to commune with the dead.

In 2017, after my release from Ada County, I recovered my dog Jack, in Oregon, and we made our way to southern Florida.  I recorded the adventure he and I shared together; two friends heading off into the unknown, with truly no idea what could happen next.  But we had each other, and that’s all that mattered.