Blog #25: Gettin’ Up the Stairs This is in Vancouver with my mom , both brothers, some good friends. This is all improv. It was my brother Leigh shot it and supplied the definitions. #1. The Mover: (Kevin is my old roommate.) “The Mover” doesn’t happen very often around here, but this happened a lot [...]

Twins of Mankala (http://www.twinsofmankala.com/) I did what I could until the very end. (Shit! That just came out! What is THAT supposed to mean? I‘ll get back to it at the end of this Blog). I was 25 years old. You’re not supposed to stop. I just took the money I made from Song for [...]

This was my third film. It is also the second one picked up by TV. It was in finished in 2005. It was my response to the invasion of Iraq. A friend of mine shot the Iraqi part of the film when she went to visit her husband who was working at the Turkish Embassy. [...]

I wrote summer last year- FOUND IT IN MY DRAFT INBOX. Crazy how y body chages so fast – I could never do that walk I did then now! ———————– It’s getting hotter and hotter. Today was very hot…but two days ago wasn’t. I walked from University and 13th to 2nd and 11th in the [...]

Everyone in the MS community agrees that it is essential to maintain a “positive attitude”. It is exhausting to have to be so conscious of literally every step I take, every pill I have to take, the daily exercise I have to do to compensate for and try to delay the inevitable deterioration … so, [...]

This is the first portrayal of MS in film. It is not meant to be realistic, because that is secondary to the message of euthanasia. This film was given to me by a neurologist in University of British Columbia Medical Center because I told him I was working on a film about MS. He had [...]

As an undergrad my degree was in performance art, so, on an creative-intellectual level, I wanted to play with the ideas Warhol expressed about endurance with films like “Sleep“, “Empire“, and “Don’t Blink”. How much endurance does the viewer have to just sit there while I do something so mundane and emotionally insignificant? I am [...]