Symbiotic Earth
How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution
2018, 147 minutes
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.
The Little Plant that Could is BACK!
2013, 23 minutes
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Alligator Eyes
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