Biography

I teach documentary, experimental, and 16mm filmmaking.  In collaboration with the Jacobs School of Music, I organize the annual Double Exposure project: teams of student filmmakers and student composers prepare short films that are screened at the IU Cinema with live music accompaniment.

As a filmmaker, I specialize in documentaries dealing with the arts, music, history and the American landscape.  My work can be seen on public television and a number of them are distributed nationally through PBS, APT or Netflix and have won Regional Emmys and CINE Golden Eagles.  Some of my long-form docs are: Along the Wabash (2016), Cuba: The Forgotten Revolution (2015), Wilderness Plots in Concert (2011), Harp Dreams: Inside the USA International Harp Competition (2010), Wilderness Plots: Songs and Stories of the Prairie (2008), American Horizons: The Photographs of Art Sinsabaugh (2008), Beaux Arts at 50 (2005), Spanning Time: America’s Covered Bridges (2004), No Compromise: Lessons in Feminist Art with Judy Chicago (2002), and Sugarplum Dreams: Staging the Nutcracker Ballet (2001).

Courses:

• P343 Intro to Documentary Filmmaking—Theory and Practice
• P434 Advanced Documentary Production
• P435 Advanced Documentary Workshop
• P335 Production as Criticism—Moving Image Portraits and the Public Screen
• P360/C560 16mm Motion Picture Production
• P438/C638 Experiments with the Film Camera
• P468/C660 Advanced Collaborative Workshop—Double Exposure