Kronos Quartet and I will be doing a show of A Thousand Thoughts next week at one of the world’s great theaters––Bellas Artes in Mexico City!!! I’m incredibly excited about it. Tuesday June 11th – please come if you are anywhere nearby.

I’ll be doing an event at the International Documentary Association in LA on May 8th. I’ll be in conversation with Kim Yutani, the head of programming at Sundance. I’ll be showing clips and Kim and I will be gabbing about this. I’ll also screen an old live cinema piece about Louis Armstrong and the hundreds… Read more »

I’m hitting the road with the Kronos Quartet, doing screenings all over of our new live cinema piece “A Thousand Thoughts”! We’ll be doing shows in Nashville, Austin, Detroit and, finally, New York City! Get info here

I’m honored to be included in the 2019 Whitney Biennial. This is the second time for me. I was in the 2004 Whitney Biennial as well. It’s a big honor.

I’ve made a new short live cinema piece for Pop-Up Magazine, and we will be doing shows in the next few weeks in LA, SF, NYC and DC. Pop-Up is a “live magazine” – i.e. a bunch of different writers, filmmakers, artists, etc doing short presentations. My piece is about Casa Sanchez, a little burrito… Read more »

Heartbroken to hear about the death of Bill Siegel. Bill and I were old friends and collaborators – we made “The Weather Underground” and traveled many miles together. Bill was a lover of life and people and the world and probably got more pleasure from being alive than anyone I’ve ever known. Bill made a… Read more »

Here’s an interview Kronos and I did at the Houston Cinema Arts Festival recently. I was happy because normally it’s just David Harrington and I who do press. This interview involved all five of us, and it was great to hear John, Hank, and Sunny’s thoughts.  

We had a great show of A Thousand Thoughts the other night at the ACE Hotel Theater in Los Angeles! One of the best so far. First of all, that venue!! The theater was built in 1927 by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks as the flagship location of their United Artists studio. It… Read more »

My short film, Julius Caesar Was Buried in a Pet Cemetery is a Vimeo Staff Pick! The Atlantic also featured the film with a little article about how it all came together. Check it out here.