Education:

BA, CCNY

Independent films include:

Art is . . . The Permanent Revolution, SprayMasters, Tall, We Were So Beloved, Short Circuit, Claw, Bridge High, Leroy Douglas, Stations of the Elevated, Haiku, Colossus on the River

Film festival screenings include:

Edinburgh; Jerusalem; New York; Film Forum; Melbourne; Berlin; Cinema du Reel, Paris; London; International Festival of Films on Art, Montreal; Venice; Stockholm Cinematech; Fondation Cartier, Paris. Other screenings include: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Whitney Museum of American Art; Museum of Modern Art; Boston Museum of Fine Arts; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Gothenburg International Film Festival, Sweden; Rotterdam International Hip-Hop Festival

Awards include:

First Prize, Athens International Film Festival; First Prize, Yale Film Festival; Blue Ribbon, American Film Festival; Best Cinematography, River Run Film Festival; Ciné Golden Eagle; American Film Institute; Distinguished Artist-Teacher Award, School of Visual Arts; National Endowment for the Arts; National Endowment for the Humanities; New York State Council on the Arts