Beautiful Losers

Pendarvia is a 30 minute film that documents the recording process of The Decemberists album "The King Is Dead" (Capitol, 2011). The album was recorded in a barn in rural Oregon. Pendarvia is heavily driven by the natural surroundings of the area, inter-cutting music with beautiful shots of the surrounding scenery. The film follows the abstractly linear narrative of the recording process, inter-cutting found moments of dialogue from the band, producer Tucker Martine, collaborators and friends. The film is a beautiful audio/visual collage that explores the trials and tribulations of the creative process.

The film takes an intimate and honest look at the young and old residents of a town still trying to heal itself after decades of strife and upheaval.

Documentary short featuring artist and professional skateboarder Mark Gonzales performing at the Stadtisches Museum in Monchengladbach, Germany in 1999.

This short subject focuses on a San Francisco based zine, founded in 2001, which featured black and white photography of that city, during one of its periods of great changes.

"I guess you could say that Dysfunctional is the first film I ever completed. I had done lots of experiments before this, but I never seemed to be able to finish anything. This one really is more of a collage than a film. I did shoot alot of the footage in it, but the overall majority of this is just clips of skateboarding films and news footage that I cut together with my friend Antek." - Aaron Rose

Documentary on progressive nun and iconic pop artist Sister Corita Kent, who shook up both LA's Catholic establishment and art scene during her tenure at Immaculate Heart College between 1947 and 1968.