I have no political ambitions.

How Bruce Baillie made All My Life - one roll of film! Inspiring. #experimentalfilm #videoessay

The Way Things Go is a work of absolute machined precision. Check out our video essay about it. Below is an excerpt!

Hard at work on my newest series, Northern Light, on Canadian cinema. It’ll be my most traditional and straightforward series yet - but by these standards, that means, get ready for near-death experiences, docudramas about nude cults, and Lacanian interpretations of hoser/loser masterpieces.

On Marie Menken's Lights, "a Christmas nocturne: it is akin to those carols and fables that promise charity, peace and the milk of human kindness flowing anonymous under cover of darkness, kindling in the hearth of this one prophetic night." www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-6_...

"I won't need to keep pouring my creative juices into these DVD commentaries, that, let's be honest, no one but you was ever gonna hear."

Now available - our video essay on beatnik glory, the hipster archetype and collage filmmaking - Rambler: Spoofing the Avant-Garde in Jane Conger Belson's Odds & Ends.

Coming tomorrow, before midnight - a new video essay on the films of Estus Pirkle and Ron Ormond!

My latest video essay for the Detours series is now up, on Jennifer (1953), one of the great Hollywood treatments of loneliness and paranoia, starring noir's greatest actress, Ida Lupino.

Leo Rossi impaled by a giant dart. One of the all-time great moments in cinema history.