20 Seconds to Live is a multiple award-winning horror/comedy anthology web series co-created by myself and Bob DeRosa, written by him, shot by George Feucht, and directed by me. We got to play in multiple genres, killing lots of wonderful people along the way. We did it for two seasons. Check us out at www.20stl.com!

A delicious, creamy reminder about 2020. Written by Jenelle Riley, shot by George Feucht, and starring Kirsten Vangsness and Yuri Lowenthal.

Did we add to the discourse? Lower it? Did we stop the evil back in 2020?

A short film based on a live play I designed the video projections for (theater projection design is one of my many sidelines). A great cast and crew (including DP George Feucht) helped make this look like a much bigger budget short and it went on to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2016 before playing dozens of other festivals and even winning some awards.

A fun comedy short created by my friend Donal Thoms-Cappello and Lauren Van Kurin. Played some festivals, had some fun.

Who wouldn’t want to shoot a commercial with a sword swallower?

Shot by DP Yuki Noguchi at the old location of the Bob Baker Marionette Theater.

My company was hired to create this ad for John Lithgow’s one-man show as it traveled around the country.

Produced for ad agency Serrino/Coyne by the amazing producer Alicia Rock (who I may actually be married to) and shot by Mark Atkins, this was one of the smoothest and most precise shoots I’ve ever worked on.

Interesting story: The Ad agency had one idea and Lithgow had a totally different idea and in listening to them go back and forth I pitched this, a way to combine them both. It came out really well due in no small part to the amazingly talented Mr. Lithgow himself.

This was made for “Sketchbox” an original sketch comedy show made for XBox in 2012. This is probably my favorite thing we made, it’s so random and weird. Written by and starring Matt Young, please enjoy.

My production company Visible Man Productions produced (and I directed) a series of marketing videos for THQ’s video game Homefront created by John Milius (Apocalypse Now, Conan the Barbarian). This was my favorite of the bunch — yet another fake “oner”. Although we were asked to cut before the camera passed over the dead eyes of the main character. I preferred that cut, but what do I know about how to sell video games?

This award-winning short was made as a part of Instant Films, a 48-hour filmmaking challenge. Written by Julie Cross and shot by Walt Lloyd, it went on to win a bunch of awards! And it was a blast to make (in 48 hours).

One of over 20 viral videos my production company Visible Man Productions was contracted to create for the series launch of the hit HBO series True Blood.

This one was my favorite of the bunch because it’s got so much going on — stunts, special FX, a car door being ripped off, a vampire, and it’s all supposed to look like one continuous shot. A lot of planning went into it for sure, and if I did it today I’d figure out how to see the moment the car crashes.

Alien Raiders was a feature I directed for Warner Brothers’ boutique genre label Raw Feed.
I hate the goofy title, but I stand by the rest of the movie, especially the amazing cast. We really tried to pay homage to taught John Carpenter-esque thrillers and horror movies and we did what we could within our low budget and 15-day shooting schedule. It was shot by the legendary DP Walt Lloyd (Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Shortcuts).

It had its world premiere at 2008 Fantastic Fest and had a great festival run including winning awards at Shriekfest and Shockerfest.

Audi: The Art of the Heist:
I was brought on to direct 8 action/suspense shorts that played within an award-winning alternate-reality game.

A small-town mortician (Curtis Armstrong) has all of his best conversations with people on his slab. But how are they getting there.

This was the first film shot on Panasonic’s flagship SDX-900 camera, an early 24P camera that shot in DVCPRO 50 for you camera nerds.

This TV special which originally aired on the FX Network was designed as part of an overall campaign for Guillermo del Toro’s first Hellboy movie. Done in the style of hard-hitting network muckraking documentaries like 20/20 and Dateline, it starred actual newsman Jim Moret.

The Burkittsville 7 was a TV special which ran on Showtime when The Blair Witch Project premiered in 2000. It was designed to deepen the mythology of the Blair Witch series between the original movie and its first sequel Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. The executives at Artisan Entertainment told me that they didn’t want to talk about the first movie too much or give away anything about the 2nd, so I chose to invent a conspiracy theory about the murders attributed to the Blair Witch in the 1940’s. What unfolded is, to this day, one of the weirdest and most fun things I’ve ever had the privilege to make. I’m unbelievably proud of this weird-ass piece of world building by way of Errol Morris and Frederick Wiseman.

Back-to-back with The Burkittsville 7, I was asked to make a true-crime-style documentary much like the ones that made Joe Berlinger famous, this time about the crimes depicted in Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2. We assembled an amazing cast and had a blast making this look and feel like a real true crime story even though it’s 100% BS.

A short film about business people settling their differences in unconventional ways.

The last film I made before moving to Los Angeles in 1999, it premiered at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and went on to have a decent festival run including Slamdance’s “Anarchy” sidebar.

Based on an original short story from “Twilight Zone” magazine (and adapted by original writer Roger Parson), I put every thought I had about films and filmmaking into this short film.

My fascination in using the supernatural world almost satirically in a story was just bubbling up (in this case, some name-brand deities), a bit of complex special FX makeup by Chris Clarke, shot by the amazing Nancy Crowell (the best DP in our school by miles) and costing every penny I ever had in the world at the time.

All in service of a short story I read when I was a teenager that I just couldn’t shake.

Vapor Man is where it starts for me as a filmmaker. It was based on a short story I’d written when I was a sullen lovesick 20 years old.

Shot on B&W Super-8 film, it’s a little difficult for me to watch these days because it’s so raw and immature, such a one-sided relationship story that fails to develop its female lead in any meaningful way, but it was the first time I ever really played with mythological characters and supernatural powers, even for a mopey post-teen such as myself at the time.

Okay, this isn’t for everyone.

Seriously. Read on before watching.

In 2013 Congressman Todd Aiken said publicly that women couldn’t get pregnant from a “legitimate rape”. It was a controversial/stupid thing to say then, and my friend Laura (the spokesmodel in this video and also a seasoned stunt performer) called me the next day to see if I’d make this ad with her and writer Joel Silberman. So we trekked out to Griffith Park with my Canon 5D mk II, a boom mic, and a reflector board and a few hours later we’d shot this.

I never doubted the concept nor did I hold back on the violence, knowing that it was Laura’s idea and honoring the amazing satire she’d created with Joel. Looking back now I’m like “holy crap that went for it!”

It worked, the video went extremely viral and was picked up by numerous news outlets. I’m only hesitant to post it here because it could offend some people. But the people it offends are probably people who unfortunately agree with Mr. Aiken, so go ahead and be offended I guess.