Film

Community-Based Multimedia Project Combines Theater and Video

Church of the Advocate mural screenshot

Working with director Billy Yalowitz, I created a set of three videos for his presentation North Called Home, a theater piece produced in collaboration with North Philadelphia’s historic Church of the Advocate. Here’s a review of the theater experience. The best part of the project for me was the generosity of the North Philadelphia community, where we worked […]

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Welcome to ‘Welcome to Me’

From Silver Linings Playbook to Homeland, mental illness — particularly the photogenic bipolar variety — has been popping up with increasing frequency in entertainment offerings. Of course, there’s something inherently dramatic about the highs and lows — especially the highs — of manic depression. Just ask Jimi Hendrix. And Kay Redfield Jamison, among others, has done a good job documenting […]

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