Video Projects
Honorer of Stories
Everyone has a story. Many stories. Your story, his story, her story, is valuable, is beautiful in its truth – rough and smooth.
As honorer of stories, I see your beauty and your truth. I receive your story and reflect back to you as a creative expression: the essence of you.
Sharing your story, having it witnessed, is a gift to you. Hearing your story is nourishing. This is the agreement when we work together: to dance in the truth and beauty of your story, healing and nourishing another step deeper into an even fuller experience of this LIfe.
Everyone has a story. Many stories. Your story, his story, her story, is valuable, is beautiful in its truth – rough and smooth.
As honorer of stories, I see your beauty and your truth. I receive your story and reflect back to you as a creative expression: the essence of you.
Sharing your story, having it witnessed, is a gift to you. Hearing your story is nourishing. This is the agreement when we work together: to dance in the truth and beauty of your story, healing and nourishing another step deeper into an even fuller experience of this LIfe.
2002
Documentary Film Making
In 1993 I discoverd my passion for documentary-making with my first documentary, “Rethinking Education: Getting to Know the Stony Point Story” about a progressive school in Va. that modeled exquisitely (and volunatrily) the ideal of the KERA (Kentucky Education Reform Act) paradigm. The parents, students, teachers and administrators were so happy in that building, that I felt I had to do something to show Kentuckians what KERA could look like. The film was well received, and used/viewed by parents, administrators and schoolboards across the state and beyond..
In 2000, I was asked to interview a woman about her experience being a patient. Thus began my second documentary, “Like Rembrandt Draperies: A Portrait of Cathy Tingle”, a life changing experience which asked me to look at my feelings about my death, illness, and dying. In the process I discovered I deeply honor and am nourished by people's stories, that my deep and respectful listening create a safe space where people share in ways they've sometimes never done before, and that while hearing and holding nonjudgmental space for these intimate shadings is a gift to me, it's equally a gift and can be healing to the one being interviewed.
Out of this bloomed LifeWorks Videos, a service/product/process in which I conduct video interviews and then tell the story I heard back to them, offering a reflection of their beauty and essence in an artful, poignant documentary about them that they can also give as gifts to chosen loved ones including future generations.
Not only are LifeWorks Videos a way to honor your stories and life, these video portraits are an important way to preserve history, and to personally pass down stories of times where life was simpler, slower and richer in community, connection to nature and traditions. Through making your LifeWorks Video, or giving the experience to a treasured loved one, you can make a difference to future generations, giving them a glimpse of where they came from, what might be hiding or lost that they don't even suspect, and what might serve as markers for life change and/or reflection. It is one small yet large way to make a difference in the world, bringing it back towards sustainability.
In 1993 I discoverd my passion for documentary-making with my first documentary, “Rethinking Education: Getting to Know the Stony Point Story” about a progressive school in Va. that modeled exquisitely (and volunatrily) the ideal of the KERA (Kentucky Education Reform Act) paradigm. The parents, students, teachers and administrators were so happy in that building, that I felt I had to do something to show Kentuckians what KERA could look like. The film was well received, and used/viewed by parents, administrators and schoolboards across the state and beyond..
In 2000, I was asked to interview a woman about her experience being a patient. Thus began my second documentary, “Like Rembrandt Draperies: A Portrait of Cathy Tingle”, a life changing experience which asked me to look at my feelings about my death, illness, and dying. In the process I discovered I deeply honor and am nourished by people's stories, that my deep and respectful listening create a safe space where people share in ways they've sometimes never done before, and that while hearing and holding nonjudgmental space for these intimate shadings is a gift to me, it's equally a gift and can be healing to the one being interviewed.
Out of this bloomed LifeWorks Videos, a service/product/process in which I conduct video interviews and then tell the story I heard back to them, offering a reflection of their beauty and essence in an artful, poignant documentary about them that they can also give as gifts to chosen loved ones including future generations.
Not only are LifeWorks Videos a way to honor your stories and life, these video portraits are an important way to preserve history, and to personally pass down stories of times where life was simpler, slower and richer in community, connection to nature and traditions. Through making your LifeWorks Video, or giving the experience to a treasured loved one, you can make a difference to future generations, giving them a glimpse of where they came from, what might be hiding or lost that they don't even suspect, and what might serve as markers for life change and/or reflection. It is one small yet large way to make a difference in the world, bringing it back towards sustainability.
