Statement
The initial influence for my narrative work was the existentialist writings of the Dirty Realists, primarily the work of Charles Bukowski, Richard Ford, Raymond Carver, and John Fante, all of whom literarily explored similar issues of self and the individual's perspective of an isolated and ambiguous world.
I direct and motivate my subjects in order to produce emotional expression and dramatic tension. The film - still quality of this work is intentional and adds a fictional quality to my personal investigation into the complicated relationships between human beings. In short, these manufactured realities are my own extrapolation of the many contradictions that make us human: our frailties, our strengths, our loneliness, our intimacies, and above all, our absurdities.