I'm a filmmaker and photographer, founder of Remodernist Film.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Meet people, make new friends, stay with cool people while traveling.

Interests

filmmaking, photography, lomography, decadent, symbolist, modernist lit, art and lit in general from 1840's-1920's mostly, Expressionism, pataphysics, old gothic horror, oh lotsa things really.

• arts
• books
• photography
• film making
• human rights
• running
• movies
• traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

Tom Waits, Billy Childish, punk, garage-punk, rockabilly, delta blues, old country and old-timey music, older jazz, various classical, Bach's sacred music... Movies: Tarkovsky, Tarr, Antonioni, Jia Zhangke, 1970's euro-horror-erotica (esp Jean Rollin), Dreyer, Tsai, Kaurismaki, Godard, Rohmer, Chris Marker, Fassbinder, Ozu, Murnau, Mizoguchi, Pialat, Vigo, Jean Epstein... Books: Artaud, Dostoyevsky, Hamsun, Bataille, David Goodis, pulps, gothic stuff, Huysmans, Beckett, Rilke, Proust, Pessoa, Walser, De Nerval, Gautier...

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Helped start and run a human rights/cinema non-profit called Cine Foundation International...

What I Can Share with Hosts

Shoot photos, talk with you about film, art, old books, go on adventures etc!

Countries I’ve Visited

Canada, England