My Thoughts and Feelings

The leap from one tier to the next, creatively speaking, is probably one of the most challenging things an artist can face. For filmmaking, I would say its even more so due to its inherent nature of being a collaborative art form and more costly. Its hard to convince people to invest their time and energy on you without having the work of that caliber already under your belt. So what do you do? You perform magic. You take a $1,000 video and make it look like a $10,000 video and hope that no one is any wiser. Something I’m currently facing. Wish me luck.

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DLRN - House of Matches

directed by Sami Abdou

Another music video I directed was released today! Check it out and let me know what you think.

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DLRN.Good Company.November 8th

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Teaser for an upcoming music video I directed for DLRN for their single “Good Company.” Releasing it Nov. 8th so get ready.

It’s going to be sick.

Still from my music video shoot last weekend.

Music video shoot today. I’ll try to get you guys some bts. Let’s hope the film gods will smile upon me today.

Believe it or not, this is me on set of one of my commercial shoots this past weekend doing one of my Sami-os.

When WILD STRAWBERRIES was nominated for an Oscar in 1960, Ingmar Bergman wrote this letter to the Academy.

What a boss.

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The great Luis Buñuel at age seven.

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Too perfect.

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"My film is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on a screen, come to life again like flowers in water."

~ Robert Bresson Notes sur le Cinématographe (via directingfilm)