Though I spend much of my time on this site talking about my paintings, I actually went to film school. I worked in Hollywood for a few years and then worked as a film journalist for a few more. In the days before COVID, I would split my time between painting and teaching classes on film history and film making at Stanford Continuing Education.
So this summer, I’m teaching an online course on filmmaking, which guides students through the process of making a two-minute movie. I spent much of the spring trying to get my very energetic six-year-old son to do something aside from watch TV and jump on the couch. So I decided to make a movie with the kid for my class. He wrote the story (though I helped shape it into something that could be done on less than a $100 million budget) and shot and edited it. I intentionally tried to make the movie as low-tech as possible. I shot it on an iPad and just used props that we found around the house.
I’m pretty pleased how it turned out. I like it better than a lot of the movies I made while at film school.