film/video
First Row To Alcatraz - 10 min 2007
Shot on 16mm by releasing the shutter one frame per second, then stretched out in editing. The camera, housed in a wooden box on steel pontoons, was towed behind a rowboat as I rowed from the shore of San Francisco to Alcatraz and back during a hailstorm.
The camera-houseboat was too heavy and acted as a sea anchor, pulling me out toward the Golden Gate Bridge as I tried to row back to shore. When the coast guard helicopter began hovering above me, I finally pulled the camera-houseboat into the rowboat and was able to row much more easily back to shore.
Six Months At Sea In The Merchant Marine - 22 min 2011
This is a short documentary about my first international containership job as a merchant mariner.
Rows - 10 min 45 sec 2005
-Video, Shot throughout the US and Argentina. Music by Keith Jarett
Water Passing - 3 min 2006
6mm Film, digitally overlaid. Filmed at sea along the Northern California coast
Gulling - 2 min 40 sec 2006
Video, digitally manipulated. Shot on the municipal pier San Francisco