When it comes to video production, I am inexorably influenced by television. There was a six-year stretch of my life, between ages eight and fourteen, during which time watching television was my primary intake of media and most compelling form of storytelling. This period has affected me passionately as an adult: I strive to understand the relationship (often, the disparity) between mere entertainment and art.
The intersection of entertainment and art is where my creativity operates. I
have experience in improv comedy, dramatic acting, and screenwriting that I hope to
utilize for the sake of endowing film—as a form of entertainment—with artistic
merit. This means that through humor and through witty realism I strive to
bring out or explore some truths and beauties about life, whether or not I can
state these verbally.
There is a school of thought, of which I am certainly a part, that holds that laughter—the purest form of amusement and a central tenet of entertainment—comes from seeing what we recognize. It may sometimes seem that we laugh at what is ridiculous or unrealistic, but in fact, I believe that every breath of laughter begins when we make an observation that we have already made; this time, our subject is exaggerated, unexpected, or simply placed within a different context. We laugh at what we know to be. Taking this truth hand-in-hand with the idea that art seeks to present truth in creative ways yields my artistic aspirations.
My greatest influences come from creators of film and television that is often self-aware, and almost always uniquely entertaining. Among these names are the Coen brothers, Scorsese, Kubrick, Mike Nichols, Tom Stoppard, Rod Serling, and Mitchell Hurwitz.
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