WATER HARVESTER

(2022)
A half hour special for Arizona Public Media about Brad Lancaster. Brad believes that Tucson, and other cities around the world, can live off rainwater. This is the story of how he transformed his neighborhood by experimenting with water harvesting, worked with the city of Tucson to legalize those methods, and has become a beacon of hope and possibility for abundance rooted in sustainability.

Awards:
National Edward R. Murrow Award

Select Screenings
The Desert Laboratory (Tucson, AZ), JUDD Foundation (Marfa, TX), Watershed Management Group (Tucson, AZ), Rockaway Film Festival (Rockaway, New York), Tenwest Impact Festival (Tucson, Arizona), California Waters Conference (Yosemite, CA), Tohono Chul Botanical Gardens (Tucson, AZ)

NEURO OSMOSIS

(2023)
Neuro Osmosis explores the visual similarities between paintings by artist and musician Nick Terry, and electron microscopy images created by Nick’s late father, renowned Neuropathologist, Dr. Robert D. Terry.

Select Screenings
CineMarfa, Sutra House (Riehen, Switzeland), Bartha Contemporary (London, England), Galveston Art Residency, American Association of Neuropathologists Annual Meeting

OPUNTIA

(2018)
A feature film about conquistador turned shaman  Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca.

Select Screenings
Viennale (Vienna, Austria), Los Angeles Film Festival, Miami Film Festival, Borscht Film Festival (Miami, FL),  CineMarfa,  Austin Film Society, El Paso Museum of Art, RiverRun Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC)

A TEXAS MYTH

(2019)
Inspired by events at Standing Rock, the Glover family of West Texas invites an indigenous activist group to start a protest camp on their land. The story of Two Rivers Camp reveals the colonial legacy of Texas and the challenges of activism.

Select Screenings
Austin Film Society, RiverRun Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC). Currently airing and streaming on PBS. Watch HERE

PINCUS

(2012)

MOVEABLE FEST Stephen Saito
“A comedy that gets to have it both ways as a hysterically funny character study and an ethereal rumination on mortality, responsibility and finding one’s place in the world, “Pincus” is transcendent in nearly every way.”

Awards
Denver Film Festival: New Directors Award 
Nominee: Independent Spirit Award

Select Screenings
New York Times Online, Los Angeles Film Festival, Viennale (Vienna, Austria), Indie Lisboa (Lisbon, Portugal), Bradford Film Festival (Bradford, England), RiverRun Film Festival (Winston-Salem, NC), Miami Film Festival (Miami, FL)

TRONA

(2004)

LA WEEKLY Scott Foundas
“…an evocation of the desolate road poetry remembered from the best films of Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch. Fenster seems to say that you can feel as alone in the city as you can in the desert, and he has a pretty original way of saying it.”

Select Screenings
Museum of Modern Art, Viennale (Vienna, Austria), Los Angeles Film Festival, Buenos Aires Film Festival, Flanders Film Festival, Cinevegas Film Festival…

FLY AMANITA

(2010)
The thoughts of an Amanita muscaria (also known as Fly Agaric or Fly Amanita) mushroom on his species' relationship with humans.

Select Screenings
Museum of the Moving Image (New York, NY), The Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA), PBS, Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA), Environmental International Film Festival (Paris, France), Museum Sinclair-Haus (Bad Homburg, Germany), CineEco (Seia, Portugal), Chinati Foundation (Marfa, TX), New York Mycological Society Myco Film Fest, Fungi Film Fest

MUSHROOMS: THE ART, DESIGN aND FUTURE of FUNGI

(2021)

Films part of a mushroom themed exhibition at Somerset House London alongside work by Cy Twombly, Beatrix Potter, and John Cage.

HE WALKED IN

(2021)
Video for Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds’ “He Walked In”.

Press
KCET, Aquarium Drunkard

WOOD

(2008)

Wood follows the journey of timber from the forest through the sawmill and presents a portrait of the working men we find along the way.

Select Screenings
PBS (POV), Los Angeles Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA), True/False Film Festival (Columbia, MO), PDX Film Festival (Portland, OR)…

Awards
Los Angeles Film Festival: Best Documentary Short  

PSYCHIC READING OF THE GAMBLE HOUSE

(2015)

Originally installed in the Gamble House closet. A collaboration with artist and psychic Asher Hartman . Part of The Machine Project Field Guide to The Gamble House.

Press
Archinect

LINEAUS LORETTE

(2013)

Lineaus Lorette is a man of many passions. Among them: crafting the finest medicine balls and punching bags in the world, collecting prison art and homoerotic art, preaching the virtues of communism, and rescuing dogs. An American original of the sort only Texas could produce.