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"A Life's Work" is a documentary about people involved with projects or research that may not be completed in their lifetime. The film features Paolo Soleri, architect, philosopher and guiding force behind Arcosanti; Jill Tarter, astronomer and Director of SETI Research, the SETI Institute; Robert Darden, founder of the Black Gospel Music Project; and David and Jared Milarch, co-founders of the Champion Tree Project.
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A Life's Work A film about people doing work they may not finish in their lifetime.

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A Life's Work · 1d ago

Is It Live or Is It … Something Else?

A while back I was talking to an editor about A Life’s Work. As we delved into the specifics, I told him about various ideas I had for the film. At one point he said, “These are good ideas, but I’ve found that most times only about 5% of those ideas actually work. But it’s [....
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A Life's Work · 6d ago

Unlikely and Sneaky Inspiration

The other day, as I ranted to a friend about the state of the economy and my unemployed status, I remembered a commercial that aired in 1971, when I was a wee-little boy. Here it is! At the time I thought it was hilarious. Just as you don’t need to know physics to find Coyote [...]
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A Life's Work · 1W ago

Regrets? Maybe.

I remembered this exchange between Soleri and me the other day and thought, why not post it again, you know, as a super special encore presentation! Hope you like it. I.G. took advantage of this blog’s stellar feature, Ask the Filmmaker. Why don’t you? Dear Filmmaker, I think I read some...
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A Life's Work · 2W ago

Cowboy Koan

While I was Playa Summer Lake artist residency, I came across a book, Bill Kitt: From Trail Driver to Cowboy Hall of Fame by D. L. “Jack” Nicol and Amy Thompson, and in that book I came across this saying attributed to Will James: There never was a horse that couldn’t be rode, there neve...
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A Life's Work · 2W ago

Why Gospel Music?

When I was looking for subjects for A Life’s Work, I always considered a collector in search of a holy grail object. In the early days I thought I’d like to include someone like a film historian searching for, say, London After Midnight, the lost silent film directed by Tod Browning and ...
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A Life's Work · 3W ago

On the Nose. Too on the Nose?

A couple of years ago I met with an editor about editing the sample for A Life’s Work. The conversation eventually turned to music for the film. One idea I told her I had idea was of staging a choir performance of Is My Living in Vain? Shooting the choir as it rehearsed and eventually [...]
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A Life's Work · 3W ago

An Email On My Corkboard?

We all need some kind of reassurance from time to time. One of the things I need it for is my skill as a cinematographer. So on my corkboard is a print out of an email from Andy Bowley, a very fine cinematographer who shot much of A Life’s Work. Thank you, Andy. Your email [...]
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A Life's Work · 4W ago

Stephen Hawking, I’m Glad You’re Alive

Thanks to Peter Kim for reaching out and alerting me to his great graphic. Simple, elegant design. I love it. How about you?
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A Life's Work · 1M ago

Record Store Day, 2012

In case you didn’t know it, Saturday, April 21, 2012, is Record Store Day. Five years and still hanging around. I thought I’d recycle the post from last year (with some slight alterations), because it’s still appropriate. Many many years ago I worked in a record store in Hackensack...
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A Life's Work · 1M ago

The Man Who Planted Trees

I met Jim Robbins when I followed David Milarch around a grove of Redwoods in Northern California in the fall of 2007. It was a tense shoot (you can read about it here), and Jim’s cool presence did a lot to settle my nerves. We’ve kept in touch, and when he comes to NYC, we [...]
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