FiImography: Producer, Director, Editor, and Cinematographer
WIDE AWAKE (2006) 79 min. color sound
THE SWEETEST SOUND (2001) 60 min. color sound
FOUND SOUND (1998) Interactive Website (www.ntv-artbytes.org)
NOBODY'S BUSINESS (1996) 60 min. color sound
INTIMATE STRANGER (1991) 60 min. color sound
LATE CITY EDITION (1990) Video, 19 min. b/w sound
THE FAMILY ALBUM (1886) 60 min. b/w sound
EVERYWHERE AT ONCE (1985) 10 min. color sound
NATURAL HISTORY (1983) 13 min. color sound
MYTH IN THE ELECTRIC AGE (1981) 15 min. color sound
CITY EDITION (1980) 10 min. b/w sound
LINES OF FORCE (1979) 7 min. color sound
COLOR WHEEL (1977) 25 min. color silent
FOUR CORNER TIME: 4 Parts (1976-77)
LINE 7 min. b/w silent; PERIMETER 11 min. b/w silent
TRAFFIC LIGHT 12 min. b/w silent; INTERSECTION 10 min. b/w silent
PATENT PENDING (1975) 12 min. b/w sound

Awards and Fellowships
Festival Juror, Sundance Film Festival - Documentary Competition (2007)
International Trailblazer Award, MIPDOC Conference, Cannes, France. (2006)
Cultural Achievement Award in Arts (Nat'l Foundation for Jewish Culture) (2002)
Artist In Residence, Walker Arts Center, MN (2001)
Master in Residence, Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL (2001)
Storyteller Award, Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival (2001)
Righteous Persons Foundation (2000)
Martin E. Segal Award (Film Society of Lincoln Center) (1999)
Civitella Ranieri Foundation Fellowship, Italy (1999)
ITVS Funding Recipient (1999, 1995)
Corporation For Public Broadcasting Funding Recipient (1999)
Eastman Kodak Film "In the Works" Production Grant (1998)
Nominee: Film/Video, CalArts Alpert Award in the Arts (2000, 1999, 1997)
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1993)
Rockefeller Foundation Intercultural Film/Video Fellowship (1993)
National Endowment for the Arts Media Arts Grant (1998, 1993, 1989)
New York State Council on the Arts Grant (1999, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1989, 1985)
New York State Council on the Arts Film Distribution Grant (1992, 1986)
Center for New Television Consulting Award, Chicago, IL (1992)
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award (1999, 1991, 1985)
Jerome Foundation Individual Artists Grant (1990, 1983)
Hoso Bunka Foundation Production Grant, Tokyo, Japan (1990)
Filmsearch Grant, Brooklyn Arts and Cultural Association (1986)
New York State Creative Artists Public Service, CAPS (1982)
State University of N.Y. Foundation Award for Creative Work in Cinema (1977)
New York State Regents Scholarship (1973)

Film Retrospectives
San Diego Jewish Film Festival (2007)
International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) (2006)
Festival de Creacion Audiovisual de Navarra (Spain) (2002)
Jacob Burns Film Center Pleasantville, NY (2002)
Viewpoint Documentary Film Festival (Ghent, Belgium) (2002)
Las Vegas Celebration of Jewish Cinema (2002)
University of California at Los Angeles (2001)
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival (2001)
Berlin Jewish Film Festival, Germany (2001)
James River Festival of the Moving Image, Richmond, VA (2000)
Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival, England (1997)
Sao Paolo Jewish Film Festival, Brazil (1997)
Nordic Short & Documentary Film Festival, Helsinki, Finland (1997)
Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway (1997)
New York Jewish Film Festival, Lincoln Center, NYC (1997)
MOMA: Recent Acquisitions... Circulating Film and Video Library, NYC (1993)
International Center of Photography: Sound/Image Collage Works, NYC (1993)

NOBODY'S BUSINESS: Special Awards and Honors
Henry Hampton Award for Exellence in Film and Digital Media (2002)
EMMY Award, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1998)
Chicago Silver Images Film Festival Visionary Award (2000)
National Media Owl Award, National Retirement Foundation (1998)
Director's Choice Award, Charlotte Film and Video Festival (1998)
First Prize for Innovation in Documentary, Festival dei Popoli (Italy) (1997)
Mayor's Prize for Best Documentary, Jerusalem International Film Festival (1997)
Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature, Florida Film Festival (1997)
Gold Apple, National Educational Media Network (1997)
Grand Prix, Visions Du Réel Int'l Documentary Film Festival (Nyon, Switzerland(1997)
Golden Spire Award, San Francisco Int'l Film Festival (1997)
Churches of the Ecumenical Jury Prize, Berlin Int'l Film Festival (1997)
The Caligari Film Prize, Berlin Int'l Film Festival (1997)
International Film Critics Association Award, Berlin Int'l Film Festival (1997)
Southern Circuit Selection: Artist Touring Program (1997)
World Premiere, New York Film Festival (October 1996)

INTIMATE STRANGER: Special Awards and Honors
Distinguished Achievement Award, International Documentary Association (1993)
Emmy Nomination, National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (1993)
Audience Award, 5th Most Popular Film, San Fran Int'l Film Festival (1992)
First Prize Blue Ribbon, American Film/Video Festival (1992)
Grand Prize, Non-Fiction, USA Festival, Dallas, TX, (1992)
Special Jury Award, Cinema du Reel Film Festival, Paris, France (1992)
Southern Circuit Selection: Artist Touring Program (1992)
Special Jury Award, Black Maria Film Festival (1991)
World Premiere, New York Film Festival, (October 1991)

THE FAMILY ALBUM: Special Awards and Honors
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art (1987)
First Prize Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival (1987)
Golden Gate Award, "Experiments in Form," San Francisco Int'l Film Fest (1987)

EVERYWHERE AT ONCE (1985)
Honorable Mention, Bucks County Film Festival (1986)
Grand Prize Winner, Ann Arbor Film Festival (1985)
Television Broadcast: INDEPENDENT FOCUS, WNET/Thirteen (1990)

NATURAL HISTORY (1983)
Honorable Mention, Bucks County Film Festival (1985)
Television Broadcast: WNYC, "The Garden of Eden" (1984)

Editing Awards
Intimate Stranger, Film Editing EMMY Nomination (1993)
Broadway's Dreamers: The Legacy of the Group Theatre, American Masters
Golden Plaque Award, Chicago Int'l Film Festival (1989)
Slave Ships of the Sulu Sea, ABC News, Sound Editing EMMY Award (1986)
To Swim With the Whales, ABC News, Sound Editing EMMY Nomination (1985)
The Berlin Wall, ABC News, Sound Editing EMMY Nomination (1983)
FDR: A Biography, ABC News, Sound Editing EMMY Award (1982)

Teaching Experience
Visual Thinking
2002 - 2007  New York University
Experiments in Time, Light & Motion
1988 - 2002 - New School for Social Research, NYC
Motion Picture Editing for the Personal Filmmaker
1993 - 2000 -  Millennium Film Workshop, NYC
Filmmaking For Artists
# 1987 - 1992 - Art Dept., Hunter College, NYC
Editing Workshop
# 1980 - 1987 -  Collective for Living Cinema, NYC

Film Festival and Foundation Panel Juries

Sundance Film Festival  (2007)
Full Frame Film Festival  (2003/2006)
Rockefeller Foundation (2003)
Florida Film Festival  (2003)
Punta de Vista Documentary Film Festival (Spain)  (2002)\
Visions du Réel Documentary Film Festival  (1998)
Charlotte Film Festival  (1998)
New York Short Film Expo  (1998)
New York Foundation For the Arts  (1994)\
Independent Focus (WNYC/Thirteen)  (1989)

Advisory Boards
Greenhouse Media Initiative (Israel)
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

Selected Conferences/Seminars/Lectures/Panels/Juries/Workshops

Panelist, Lake Placid Film Forum, Can Movies Think? Lake Placid NY (2001)
History and Home Movies: An Evening with Alan Berliner, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art (2000)
Curator, Outside Looking In: Coming of Age Stories, Doubletake Documentary
Film Festival, Durham, NC (2000)
Panelist, Center For Communication, Supporting Your Documentary Habit,
New York City (1999)
Featured Speaker, Visualizing Oral History, Gallaudet University,
Washington, DC (1999)
Conference Presenter, Orphans of the Storm: A Symposium on Film Preservation,
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC (1999)
Consultant/Advisor, Hunter College, Dept. of Film and Media, New York City (1999)
Conference Presenter, Sound is Overlooked, Duke University, Durham, NC (1999)
Festival Juror, New York Short Film Expo, New York City (1998)
Award Presenter, First Annual National Student Film,Video and New Media Festival,
Hunter College, New York City (1998)
Conference, Eye and Thou: Jewish Autobiography in Film and Video, Conversations Between Artists and Scholars; University of Southern California, (1998)
Panelist, Independent Feature Project; Documentary Film Seminar, The Documentarian as
Storyteller," New York City (1998)
Festival Juror, Visions Du Reel, Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, Nyon,
Switzerland (1998)
Festival Juror, 1998 Charlotte Film Festival, Mint Museum of Art
Featured Speaker, Duke University Documentary Film/Video Happening,
Durham, NC (1998)
Creative Consultant, ITVS Independent Television Service (1997)
Consultant, Nathan Cummings Foundation Roundtable on Art and Jewish Identity. (1997)
Funding Panelist, National Foundation for Jewish Culture (1997) (2001)
MEET THE MAVERICKS Speaker Series: Chantal Akerman, Raul Ruiz, Francesco Rosi, Alan Berliner, Lecture and Film Screenings Sponsored by Film Arts Foundation and The San Francisco International Film Festival, CA, (1997)
LIVE AT THE JEWISH MUSEUM: Film Screening and Interview by Michael Hirschorn, Executive Editor of New York Magazine, New York City, (1996)
Creative Consultant, P.O.V. The American Documentary New York City (1995)
Funding Panelist for Film Program, New York Foundation for the Arts,
New York City (1994)
Panelist at MEDIA ALLIANCE Conference, "Multiple Currents: Carving Out a Space for Indies: Survival in the 90's", New York City (1994)
Featured Speaker at Seminar: What's Up Doc?, National Film Board of Canada,
Toronto, Canada (1994)
Workshop Instructor: Experimental Approaches To Personal Documentary,
Southeastern Media Institute, Columbia, SC (1993)
Featured Speaker at Seminar: Documentary Filmmaking And Archival Material,
Louis Wolfson II Media History Center, Miami-Dade Public Library, Miami, FL (1993)
Seminar/Lecture: The Craft Of Editing, Honolulu Academy of Arts, HI (1992)
Panelist/Speaker at Conference of the Oral History Archives at Columbia University,
New York (1992) (1996) (1997)
Panelist/Speaker at Conference, FAST REWIND: The Archaeology of Moving Images; The Family Film, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York (1989)
Funding Panelist/Consultant, INDEPENDENT FOCUS, WNET/Thirteen, NY (1989)
Featured Speaker at Robert Flaherty International Documentary Film Seminar,
Ithaca, NY (1987)

Art Exhibitions: One Person
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 2002 THE LANGUAGE OF NAMES, Installation
Holocaust Museum Houston, TX 2002 GATHERING STONES, Video Installation
Stephen Gang Gallery, NYC, 1999 "THE ART OF WAR" Audio/Video Installation
Sculpture Center, NY, 1996 "FOUND SOUND" Audio/Video Installation
Walter Reade Theatre, Lincoln Center, NY, 1994 AUDIOFILE/AVIARY
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY, 1987 Audio/Sculpture Installation
Lightwell Gallery, Norman, OK, 1978 Photo/Video Installation
Collective for Living Cinema, NYC 1977 Photo Grids and Collages
Harpur College, NY, 1977 Para-cinematic Reliefs and Constructions

Art Exhibitions: Group
University of Michigan, (2001) Close Listening: Comtemporary Audio Art
Yeshiva University Museum, 2001 Jewish Artists: On the Edge
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, 2000 SOS: Scenes of Sounds
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, 2000 To The Rescue: 8 Artists in an Archive
The College of Santa Fe, 2000 Jewish Artists: On the Edge
Jewish Museum San Francisco, 2000 To The Rescue: 8 Artists in an Archive
Miami Art Museum, 1999 To The Rescue: 8 Artists in an Archive
International Center For Photography, NYC, 1999 To The Rescue: 8 Artists in an Archive
William Paterson College Art Gallery, 1997 The Concrete Signal: Video as Sculpture
Stephen Gang Gallery, NYC, 1997 INTER/EST
Eighth Floor Gallery, NYC, 1996 Neo-Kinetics: Postmodern Techne
Dong-Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1995 Man and Machine: Technology Art
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, NC, 1995 Video Sculpture
Anthology Film Archives, NYC, 1994 SeOUL-NYmAX Multi-Mediale
Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, NC, 1994 Sound and Motion Tribeca 148 Gallery, NYC, 1993 The Concrete Signal: Video as Sculpture Minor Injury Gallery, NYC, 1991 Tweeking the Human (Audio Sculpture) Hunter College, NYC, 1989 Audio/Sculpture Installation Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY 1986 Frames of Mind Hunter College, NYC, 1980 Frames: 2 Dimensional Work by Film Artists

Audio / Video / Installations / Para-cinema THE LANGUAGE OF NAMES (2001) THE ART OF WAR (1999) GATHERING STONES (1999) CRITICAL MASS (1996) THE RED THREAD (1996) ALL NEWS RADIO (1996) ELECTRIC GUITAR (1996)POSTMARKS (1994) LATE CITY EDITION (1993) AVIARY (1993) AUDIOFILE (1993) ULTRA HIGH FREQUENCY (1991) BUDDHA'S DELIGHT (1991) REFLEX (1990) SEA OF TRANQUILLITY (1990) TOUCH TYPING (1990) MADE FOR TV MOVIE (1990) AUDIOYARN (1989) SONAR FLASHLIGHT (1989) VIDEOTAPE DISPENSER (1989) SOLID STATE (1988) WORKPRINT (1979) SPLICE (1978) PHOTO-FILM-STRIP (1978) HOME MOVIE (1977) CINEMATRIX (1977)

Artist in Residence
Walker Arts Center, MN (2001)
Atlantic Center for the Arts, FL (2001)
Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY (1994, 1993, 1990, 1988)
Sculpture Space, Utica, NY (1987)

Permanent Collections
Adelphi University (NY) American Psychiatric Association (DC) American University (DC) Amherst College (MA) Andalusia Public Library (AL) Augustana College (SD) Brigham Young University (UT) Broward County Main Library (FL) California Institute of the Arts Carleton College (MN) Cazenovia College (NY) Columbia College (IL) Columbia University (NY) Crandall Public Library (NY) Daytona Beach Community College (FL) Duke University (NC) Enoch Pratt Free Library (MD) Everson Museum (NY) Exploratorium (San Francisco, CA) Facets Video (Chicago, IL) Forum of New Cinema, Berlin Film Festival (Germany) Franklin and Marshall College (PA) Greene County Public Library (OH) Hampshire College (MA) Hope College (MI) Hoso Bunka Foundation (Japan) Hudson Valley Library System (NY) Indiana University International Documentary Association (CA) Israel Genealogical Society Israel Museum Jerusalem Cinematheque/Archive (Israel) Kokomo-Howard City Public Library (IN) Lakeland Community College (OH) Lorna Linda University (CA) Maui Community College (HI) Mid-Hudson Library System (NY) Middlebury College (VT) Museum of Modern Art (NYC) National Film & Television School (London, UK) Newton Public School System (MA) New York Public Library (NYC) New York University (NYC) Norfolk Academy (VA) Northeast Historic Film (ME) Norwegian Short Film Festival Notre Dame University Oslo Cinematheque (Norway) Ottawa University (AZ) Pandora Co. Ltd. (Japan) Port Washington Public Library (NY)Queens Museum, (NYC) Rochester Institute of Technology San Jose State University (CA) Spokane Falls Community College (WA) State University of New York at Buffalo State University of New York at New Paultz St. John Fisher College, (NY) St. Mary's College of Maryland Suffolk County Library System (NY) Syracuse University (NY) The New Museum (NYC) Timberland Regional Library (WA) Toronto Public Library System (ONT) University of Arts (Philadelphia, PA) University of California at Berkeley University of California at Los Angeles University of California at Riverside University of Georgia University of Hawaii University of Kansas University of Massachusetts University of North Texas University of Oklahoma University of Ottawa University of South Florida (Sarasota) University of Southern California University of Texas at Austin University of Utah University of Vermont University of Virginia Ventura Films (Germany) Wabash College (IN) Wellington Film Society (New Zealand) Western Washington University West Virginia Library Commission Yale University (CT) Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival (Japan)

Born
1956 New York City

Education
1979 M.F.A. with Highest Honors, School of Art, University of Oklahoma
1977 B.A. with Highest Honors, Cinema, S.U.N.Y. Binghamton