As I reflect back I realize I don’t fully understand this life and reality. But I’m trying to let go of worry, let go of bitterness, let go of negative

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Check out the Chicago Underground Film Festival trailer I directed with Usilia Warood and cinematography by Ben Hernstrom.

If you enjoy my films please consider purchasing my latest zine Boy from War. These are selections from my art journals when I was 18 years old and full of

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Rare polaroid (my mom found) of our house in Basra, Iraq after several bombings in 1982.

These are stories from my childhood about being lost in the night with my dad, the war in Iraq with my dog, and dropping acid.

Rare picture of me teaching at the University of Colorado Boulder on how to direct actors in film. (picture by Geoff Marslett)

A film-in-progress with Usilia Warood.

 Muffin I made this short movie over 18 years ago on a cold winter night in Chicago. I convinced a good friend to buy me a Sony 3-chip mini-digital

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Watch my short film The Flowering. Shot on Super 8mm film and a little bit of analog video. This film just premiered at the 25th Chicago Underground Film Festival.