No Film School

Some scenes from my Junior-year student film at Middlebury College, which also played at film festivals in New York, Boston, and North Carolina in 2002:

Fanfare was meant to refer to the container–the bookends and the constant audience presence–while Higher Education was the film-within-a-film (thus Fanfare for Higher Education).
I shot the 17-minute short during the first […]

Due to a long-standing dearth of media on this site, as well as a newly-discovered lack of free time on my hands (welcome to New York!), I’m putting up some old videos I directed in college. Please don’t take these as indicative of my current abilities and interests; I’m capable of much less now.
Here’s […]

It’s the opening match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup–Germany vs. Costa Rica. ESPN’s broadcast of the first of 64 games kicks off with a standard animated opening, switches to a wide shot of the fans in Munich’s Allianz Arena, and then cuts directly to a shot of… me. Smack-dab in the center […]

Does nothing in this world last? A scant three days after posting my demo reel, I’m back with a shorter, tighter version that is half as long as the previous one. Forget you ever saw the original. There’s no new material here, just new music–and a bunch of shots left on the […]

After six months of writing reactionary blog posts, with nary a video posted to demonstrate my filmmaking prowess, I have finally uploaded my 2005 Demo Reel, which I will now commence shopping around.
This site is named No Film School because it’s supposed to document what’s it like to try to establish yourself as a filmmaker […]

An unreleased version of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet has been found, in which R. tells the tale of an entirely different sexcapade! Here, in his own words, is the “shocking truth!”
Mr. Kelly, why don’t you tell us what really happened?

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