Bio

I am an artist and educator focused on documentary film.  I have a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Art. My film (with James Gaffney and Jon Miller), Tighten Your Belts, Bite the Bullet (New York Film Festival, 1980) detailed the engineered bankruptcy of NYC. Camino Triste: The Sad Road of the Guatemalan Refugees (PBS, 1982) investigated genocide in the Mayan communities of Guatemala under General Efraín Rios-Montt.  (Permanent collection, Museum of the American Indian). 

As a member of Paper Tiger TV, I co-produced The Gulf Crisis Television Project (Whitney Biennial, 1993).   My personal essay film, Hiroshima Bound (2015), uses the images of specific American and Japanese photographers to unpack America's collective memory of the atomic bombings of WW2. Other work includes multi-media installation, performance and video art. 

A former director of the Integrated Media Arts MFA Program, Hunter College, CUNY, I speak regularly on issues related to visual culture and documentary film.  My articles have appeared in publications including Afterimage, Postscript, and World Records Journal.  

Currently, I am working on an essay film In the Tules, that focuses on the landscapes of California and my relationships to them, past and present, due out by the end of 2025. I am also working with the Korea Art Forum as a co-curator on Shared Dialog, Shared Space 2025, a series of participatory art initiatives in New York's boros.