"Raised on the east coast of the U.S., I received degrees from the Hartford Art School and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. All my work is collage-based and all images, though silent, are heavily influenced by music and poetry. I've painted & photographed all my life, but from the late 70's to mid 80's I made over 100 super-8, silent films. These are highly subjective, non-narrative observations often on filmmaking itself.
Shot weeks apart, I made two films of personal sightings while on public outings, in the company of the great mammals off Cape Cod. Like icebergs, very little of their bulk, beyond shimmering back and a rearmost dorsal fin is visible as they glide the surf ...
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Beyond Quiet is an autobiographical video essay on painting, photography and Super-8 film. ...
Watch Now"Interwoven footage of 12 females engaged in specific and personal physical activities -- each filmed separately, throughout the east coast and midwest (U.S.), then edited into a collective dance of sorts. This was my last completed film. ...
Watch Now"One of the most gifted models for my figure drawing courses at CCS, Milton adapted to suggestions with ease, i.e., '… improvise a 10 minute moving pose'. Sometimes we'd have the class sessions in almost total darkness. I'm grateful to him for this intim ...
Watch Now"If there's a film of mine that makes the case for multiple viewings, it's (Reel #2). This has to be seen several times to be seen at all. The transition from filmmaking back into painting is here in the 'props' — 2″ clear tape strips of gorgeous debri ...
Watch Now"A soft focus and so very silent, 'essence of place' shot in Provincetown to be later 'remembered' in Detroit." (J.B. ...
Watch Now"A dark, driven montage of Detroit streets, activities & diary entries of my films made in that city, that year. This is also a gritty, heavily spliced journal that cuts quick and dirty on the eye. Yet another recapitulation… toward an end of it all." (J ...
Watch NowBased on the title and a premise from my undergraduate thesis, this one also goes back to the impact of seeing my first Brakhage film, MOTHLIGHT. From that experience and later graduate studies with him, to the eventual making of this film, the inherent vi ...
Watch Now"A muffled dream state; slow, soft focus nudes and repeating red ocean waves." (J.B. ...
Watch NowA splice-less, text soliloquy acknowledging an unknown, random audience of one I'm sharing this film with. Originally shot in b&w, the digital version has gone pink. Super-8, silent. ...
Watch NowA sometimes very rapid montage of stills & short clips referencing aspects of filmmaking, as well as my own paintings on glass and photographs. So then -- a film about filmmaking, a dervish dance, a celebration of light, color, movement and all the cha ...
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Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense. Super-8, silent, color, b&w. Dedicated to Bill Gubbins. ...
Watch Now"A declarative and somewhat facetious circular text weaves through many sampled versions of what "film" might be, i.e., home movie, Hollywood, training, documentary, newsreel, sports, abstraction, etc. Shot in b&w and silent, yet two more categories. A ...
Watch Now"Bach implied; splice-free, light, airy, soft-focus reflections out the back window of a car returning from the beach on a perfect summer's day. Super 8, silent, non-narritive. ...
Watch Now"Totally under-exposed 35mm slides of African maps were drawn over by a 10 & 12 year old. The slides, with their emulsion-scratched images, were then rephotographed... as a wonderful collaboration. ...
Watch Now"This is the opening to a series of seven "Intrigues", inspired by Delmore Schwartz's observations on the word. These seven titles of mine center on aspects of filmmaking. This one intersperses use of prism light, underwater shooting, the echoing of shadow ...
Watch Now"From a series of 7 "Intrigues", (as referenced by Delmore Schwartz), this fourth one pries the curious poetry of light and darkness within filmmaking. ...
Watch Now"#5 from a series of 7... A dance leading to a dance. Super 8, silent, non-narritive. ...
Watch Now"A sixth meditation on aspects of filmmaking with repeated tracings of light traveling through glass (emblematic of cameras, viewers, meters, projectors). This one also macro-views editing bench equipment, as sites the eye/ mind goes to while splices dry. ...
Watch Now"The opening to a series of seven films inspired by Delmore Schwartz's observations on the word 'intrigue'. My series regards various aspects of personal visuals, including the process of shooting, splicing, repetition, projection and editing bench equipme ...
Watch Now"A private, dark meditation on fleeting moments, sightings." (J.B. ...
Watch Now"Series summation; a regathering and extension in red, black, blue & white. This is a charged compression of both in-camera editing and bench-cutting… a splice dance under the ocean, in the fire, on the ice. A built-in edit of film editing portrayed." (J ...
Watch Now"A simplistic analogy of obvious disparities between these two masters that I concocted on the beach in Provincetown. As a disclaimer: my filmed comparisons relating H.F. & S.B. should in no way be construed with the quality or intentions of these high pri ...
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Whale Watch (1) gathers personal sightings while on a public outing, in the company of the great mammals off Cape Cod. ...
Watch Now"This homage to structural filmmaker Paul Sharits, was made by re-photographing thousands of cement splices, then arranging them into four movements. The continuous image of the splice bar implies an almost dream-like landscape/ horizon line. I met him sho ...
Watch Now"620 Commercial is the street address of an old house in Provincetown. This is literally a 'reflective' portrait of that house — all shots are from the surface of, or through, weathered windows, glass doors, a framed photo. On this particular summer day, ...
Watch Now"The suggestion of drifting psychosexual dreams fragmenting in & out of events, places, time itself. Locations include a Detroit basement, a Provincetown night carnival and an artist's studio. Darkness becomes the conduit." (J.B. ...
Watch Now"An entangled meld of Celtic-flavored abstractions, home movies and an Irish dance fest that was edited throughout with those very moves in mind. Quick shots and dense patterning within the film echos that found in embroidery, lace, stone and metal work †...
Watch Now"An uneasy, very personal reaffirming of vocabulary and somewhat obsessive meditation on looking, losing, recalling. A blindingly melancholic inner self/ Detroit winter-spring dirge of isolation." (J.B. ...
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This is one of those rare, total in-camera edits that provided options for many of my later, densely layered films. The timing and lap dissolves were a pitch-perfect gift! Super 8, silent, experimental. ...
Watch Now"Shot at a Bohemian crematorium outside Chicago, this self-viewing at work makes metaphoric reference to the location and process of cremation. Still photos, drawing, bleach, inks & silver tape were used to 'move heaven and hell', all from the vantage poin ...
Watch Now"One of my best, an early study about life, love, sex & death. This film has explicit images and may be problematic for children and some adults. Shot at 'Mother's' club and the Gross Anatomy Lab in Detroit, various locations in Provincetown and from a mot ...
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This is a shortened version of a three-movement film made over a summer's stay in Provincetown, MA (Cape Cod), first alone, then with family. A journal of sorts, it renders the place with obvious affection. The town remains today, to an amazing degree, as ...
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"A percussive conjuration of a banshee wail, imploring warmth from the winter's sun, this was naively made in admired response to Mothlight." (J.B. ...
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Spectrum and prism divide the screen; whites and light, etc. "Out of this purity comes all colors. I've always been attracted to refracted light and prismatic phenomena" says Bernard. For Richard Devereaux. Super 8, silent, non-narrative. ...
Watch Now"Beyond much single frame shooting, ICON, an early film, allowed for the use of cropped stencil letters as abstractions and the idea of bringing my painting sensibility and tools to film. Super 8, silent, experimental. ...
Watch Now"A completely in-camera edit of a day in a life. This is a home movie of my mother and one of several portraits made near the beginning of my filmmaking." (J.B. ...
Watch Now"This title was meant quite sincerely and the film offers a previsional vocabulary. There was a joy in becoming who and what I was then… filming surroundings, friends, the light & colors around me." (J.B. ...
Watch Now"An interior, edited in-camera portrait of Jessie Sarafina Bernard, in late afternoon summer sun. Warmly regarded." (J.B. ...
Watch Now"Half of MIRROR/ANOTHER MIRROR - this is, in part, a portrait of Carlo assisting. A shared reflection of abstractions and persistent blue passages. The camera was less than adequate, but I value the intention of this partnership and the haunting film it pr ...
Watch Now"The film's title takes into account meanings and implication of the word 'chamber', as well as of the heart, intimate music, darkness, room, camera, prison, gun part...both empty and loaded. CHAMBER provided my conversion from painter to filmmaker. ...
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