FILM

Michael is co-director of Feather and Pine, a documentary feature chronicling several years of a Northern California logging community in the wake of the Great Recession. The film premiered at the multi-disciplinary art space and non-profit organization The Museum of Human Achievement in Austin, Texas with live musical accompaniment from Boxhead Ensemble and composer Michael Krassner at the helm, and later screened in film festivals and received awards at Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, BendFilm Festival, Tulsa American Film Festival, and Mammoth Lakes Film Festival, among others. More on the film here and here.

Michael has also served as an image-maker for other films, documentaries and music videos in varied settings internationally.

IMAGES

Michael’s photography explores geographies of identity in personal memory and place.

WRITING

Michael has written on film and art in various contexts. Recent selected writing on Jean-Luc Godard and Andrei Tarkovsky (forthcoming).