Andrew
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Communications or Media |
| Occupation | Writer, Director, Editor, Photographer |
| Location | Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States |
| Introduction | I'm a writer and director (but mostly a writer) living in Minneapolis. I have a formal education in film criticism/history, screenwriting, gender studies, politics, art history, and Taiwanese cinema (B.A. University of Minnesota - Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature), and am self-educated in production. |
| Interests | Writing, watching movies, making movies, editing, Final Cut Pro, ontology, photography, reading, taekwondo, traveling, epistemology, critical theory, monster trucks, history, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Man Vs. Food, film festivals, philology, base jumping, hang gliding, architecture, design, journalism, acknowledging biases |
| Favorite movies | The Departed, Goodfellas, No Country For Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Punch Drunk Love, M, The Third Man, Yi Yi, Robocop, Vertigo, The Birds, Rear Window, Psycho, Synecdoche New York, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, All The President's Men, Chinatown, Rosemary's Baby, Akira, The Ghost In The Shell, Zodiac, The Social Network, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Cafe Lumiere, Old Boy, The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Let The Right One In, Chop Shop, Man Push Cart, Goodbye Solo, Heat, Collateral, Podunk, Wall Street, The Godfather Part 2, Wall-E, Up, Menace II Society, The Silence of the Lambs, Rachel Getting Married, Exit Through the Gift Shop, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Royal Tenenbaums, Rushmore, The Darjeeling Limited, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Three Times, 8 1/2, Milk, Good Will Hunting, The Hurt Locker, Amelie, Reprise, Irreversible, Ong Bak, Battle Royale, (500) Days of Summer, Citizen Kane, The Big Lebowski, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990), The Ghost Writer |
| Favorite music | Radiohead, Cat Power, The Bird and the Bee, The School of Seven Bells, The Black Keys, Justice, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, RATATAT, Al Green, Teddy Pendergrass, Lauryn Hill, Jurassic 5, The Roots, Guns & Roses, |
| Favorite books | "Orientalism" Edward Said, "Gender Trouble" Judith Butler, ""Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found" Suketu Mehta, "DIscipline and Punish" Michel Foucault, anything by, Peter Hessler, "How To Build A Great Screenplay" by David Howard |