Symbiotic Earth

How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution

2018, 147 minutes

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A feature length documentary about the great scientist Lynn Margulis and the cutting edge ideas that she and her colleagues championed – ideas that will change how we all think about evolution, genetics, bacteria, and the environment.

A short documentary about how a community took charge of its own hydroelectric plant. Supported in part by the Decentralization Program of the New York State Council on the Arts. Premiered: NY, April 28, 2013

EVO

Ten Questions Everyone Should Ask about Evolution

2010, 107 minutes

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A film about the evolution of life on earth – for the budding environmentalist in all of us. Distributed by NSTA, Hummingbird Films, and many catalog distributors. Premiered: SUNY New Paltz, NY, DEC. 3, 2010

EVO Teachers Guide by Rodger Bybee and John Feldman published by National Science Teachers Association Press (2012)

Awards: Cine Golden Eagle 2011, Parents Choice Award (2012)

Energy and You

Renewable Resources ad Innovative Solutions

2009, 52 minutes

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Educational film and book curriculum for San Diego County Office of Education. Five 10 minute videos for high school education. Curriculum and book by Rodger Bybee and John Feldman

Jessye Norman

from Five Video Portraits (2008, 28 minutes)

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Five Video Portraits (2007, 28 minutes): Jessye Norman, Ming Cho Lee, Helen Frankenthaler, Merce Cunningham, Douglas Durst

Commissioned by Purchase College School of the Arts for the 2007 Nelson A. Rockefeller Awards.

Premiered: NY City, November 2007

Ming Cho Lee

from Five Video Portraits (2007, 28 minutes)

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Five Video Portraits (2007, 28 minutes): Jessye Norman, Ming Cho Lee, Helen Frankenthaler, Merce Cunningham, Douglas Durst

Commissioned by Purchase College School of the Arts for the 2007 Nelson A. Rockefeller Awards.

Premiered: NY City, November 2007

Merce Cunningham

from Five Video Portraits (2007, 28 minutes)

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Five Video Portraits (2007, 28 minutes): Jessye Norman, Ming Cho Lee, Helen Frankenthaler, Merce Cunningham, Douglas Durst

Commissioned by Purchase College School of the Arts for the 2007 Nelson A. Rockefeller Awards.

Premiered: NY City, November 2007

The Thief of Love (2006, 110 minutes)

The Thief of Love website

trailer: The Thief of Love

A Lyric Comic Opera in Three Acts, music and libretto by Sheila Silver — a unique opera film

Premiered: NY, 92nd St. Y, December 4, 2006

Who the Hell is Bobby Roos?

2002, 93 minutes

website: Who the Hell is Bobby Roos

Independent Feature starring Roger Kabler as a man who could be anyone but himself. Premiere: Seattle

“New American Cinema Award” Seattle International Film Festival (2002)

“Best Film — Digital Vision” International Film Festival of Cuenca Festivals:

Vancouver Int. Film Festival, Buenos Aires Int. Film Festival, Independent Media that Matters (Hawaii)

As the Earth Turns

MusicVisions are a unique collaboration with composer Sheila Silver. Designed to accompany live instruments in a chamber music setting, and for DVD release.

Premiered Stony Brook University, Sept. 2000

Subway Sunset

MusicVisions are a unique collaboration with composer Sheila Silver. Designed to accompany live instruments in a chamber music setting, and for DVD release.

Premiered Stony Brook University, Sept. 2000

Dead Funny

“Viv (Elizabeth Peña), and Reggie(Andrew McCarthy) live in separate New York apartments and their relationship is based on sex and sick practical jokes.  Now Reggie’s dead, skewered to the kitchen table with a Samurai sword, and Viv’s trying to remember what happened.  Dead Funny is classical tragic love story about the breakdown of communication. It constantly challenges expectations; by turns delightfully stylish, wickedly funny and deeply shocking. ” Jane Ivey — London Film Festival

Independent Feature — Starring Elizabeth Peña and Andrew McCarthy.

Distributed by Film Four International, Unapix Entertainment, HBO, syndicated television.

Premiered London Film Festival, 1995 Festivals: London, Hong Kong, Woodstock

She was blind, beautiful and knew how to use a gun… I called here “Alligator Eyes.”

A sexy, humorous thriller about three old friends traveling on a road trip from New York City to North Carolina.  Along the way they pick up a hitchhiker — a mysterious, beautiful, young blind woman named Pauline — who subtly manipulates each of them and redirects their journey toward a dramatic encounter. 

Independent Feature written and directed by John Feldman.

Distributed by J & M Entertainment, Castle Hill Productions, Academy Entertainment, HBO

Premiered: Edinburgh Film Fest, August 19, 1990. Theatrical engagement opened at Quad Cinema, NYC

FIRST PRIZE: Audience Jury San Sebastian Int. Film Festival, Spain (1990)

Festivals: Edinburgh, London, Chicago, Mill Valley