I saw the film Breathless at the impressionable age of 17 and fell instantly in love with jump cuts, billowing puffs of cigarette smoke and the movies. My career in pictures started with a stint as an intern on Dazed and Confused during a summer in Austin. From there I followed a unique path from shooting super 8 films at Film Video Arts in NYC, attending art school (MFA, Bard College), editing educational videos in Rome (Italy), and back to New York where I worked on feature films, television programs, commercials and corporate videos as a freelance film and video editor until 2008.
I was the assistant editor on the critically acclaimed films Man Push Cart (Sundance, 2005) and Chop Shop (Cannes, 2007), both directed by Ramin Bahrani. I was also an assistant editor on television commercials, and have edited promos for clients such as Bloomingdales, the New York Times Digital, and the FAO in Rome, Italy. From 2003- 2007 I was a freelance segment editor for the PBS program, In the Life. In 2005 I stepped in as the show’s post production supervisor and staff editor, guiding it through the 2005-2006 season
As an editor I worked with the artist Judy Radul on her experimental, single channel piece Describe Video. This project cast blind actors in the roles of sighted characters and plays on the camera’s focus on sight as a principle means of relation. It was was included in an exhibition of Judy’s work at the Catriona Jeffries Gallery in Vancouver in October 2007.
My film editing credits include: Between Love and Goodbye and A Four Letter Word directed by Casper Andreas. A Jersey Christmas directed by Eric Weber, and Off Duty directed by Vijay Mathews.