Who's Who
(Incomplete) Biographical notes on artists and filmmakers who have associated with Glass Eye Pix over the years.
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JOHN ARLOTTO (art) worked on HABIT in 1994. He has since worked on the feature POPA by Richard Mancuso and Jake Paltrow's THREE: AN EVICTION NOTICE. He Graduated with a BFA from Cornell University. He directed the 16mm short A WOMAN'S SONG.
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NELSON BAKERMAN (Photographer) is a fine-arts and commercial photographer working out of New York whose work is in the permanent collections of the International Center of Photography and the Brooklyn Museum in New York City; the NYNEX Corporation, the City of Paris Audio Visual Collection in France; and the private collections of Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Uwe Scheild and Rainer Wick.
IRIT BATSRY (video artist) is an award-winning video artist. She was post-production supervisor on EXPERIENCED MOVERS.
AARON BEALL (actor, producer) makes his film debut playing Nick in HABIT. He is executive director of Nada, Inc. the notorious off-off Broadway Theater in New York that showcases emerging talent. He is is Artistic director of the MicroCosmic Theater company where he has created "Easy Pieces: Found Text Theater" with Emily Morse, and Solo Folio, a solo production of Shakespeare's first folio HAMLET. As an actor, he has appeared off Broadway regionally and internationally in countless productions.
LOREN BEVANS (costume design) designed costumes for HABIT and has sewn costumes for Broadway and movies, including Coppola's DRACULA.
WHITNEY BLAKE aka ZIPPO (Photographer) is a photographer and printer. He has been involved with Glass Eye Pix since before its inception.
MARGOT BRIDGER (producer) recently produced Ira Sachs's THE DELTA as well as ARRESTING GENA (director Hannah Weyer) with Good Machine, Inc. She has been working in independent film since graduating from Yale in 1987, starting as a producer's assistant on such projects as LONGTIME COMPANION and MISSISSIPPI MASALA. In addition to THE DELTA, she has produced Ira Sachs's short films LADY and THE SALESMAN (winner of Best Short at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival). She began her collaboration with Sachs in 1992.
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MARO CHERMAYEFF (editor) is a New York-based film editor whose credits include several award-winning documentaries, among them Peggy Stern's STEPHANIE, DEBUT, and BALI BEYOND THE POSTCARD, which she associate-produced as well. She was also editor on the latest film by Christine Choy and J T Takagi, KOREA, HOMES APART, and has worked on promotional campaigns for feature films including RAINMAN, THE ACCIDENTAL TOURIST, MOONSTRUCK, as well as trailers for MASTERPIECE THEATER and a music piece for Spike Lee's MO' BETTER BLUES. Chermayeff has edited several fiction shorts, and Larry Fessenden's NO TELLING was her first feature film.
BILL CHESLEY (sound design) is the New York sound designer for the award-winning commercial post production house, Machinehead. He was sound editor on HABIT and Kelly Reichardt's feature RIVER OF GRASS and has mixed several award-winning shorts and TV shows.
PATRICIA COLEMAN (actress) writes and directs plays in New York City, currently adapting Herman Melville's "Confidence Man" for the stage. She teaches English at Lehman College and is a candidate for the doctoral Program of Theater at CUNY grad school and University Center. She appears as Rae in HABIT
HARRY CROSBY (actor) appears in HOLLOW VENUS and EXPERIENCED MOVERS, and other Glass Eye Pix works. He played in the band Swans in the 80s. Also in the 80s Crosby was a member of the secret society Humourville along with Fessenden and Dewar MacLeod about which nothing more should be said.
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ANDREA DeGETTE (producer, writer, director) continues to make movies out of North Carolina. She production managed EXPERIENCED MOVERS.
FRANK DeMARCO (director of photography) was nominated for a 1998 Independent Spirit Award for his work on Fessenden's HABIT. Before that, he was the principal director of photography and associate producer on Steven M. Martin's documentary feature entitled THEREMIN: AN ELECTRONIC ODYSSEY (1995-Orion Classics; Sundance Film Festival's 1994 Filmmaker's Trophy Award), about the world's strangest musical instrument; was a D.P. on director Charles Guggenheim's THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD (1990, Academy Award for best short documentary); The President's House (1988) directed by Academy Award winner Paul Wagner; and was D.P. and associate producer on the forthcoming feature RED LIPSTICK by producer/director Alex King. He has shot second Unit on features for directors including Henry Jaglom, Ang Lee, and Bob Balaban. DeMarco has numerous television, commercial, and music video credits. He is the inventor of the Frank-o-Slate and the Logo-Scope, patented motion picture apparatuses. Since HABIT, Frank has shot features including Greg De Felice's BURY THE EVIDENCE (1998) and SUNBURN for director Nelson Hume.
JANET DONOFRIO (actress) Appears in EXPERIENCED MOVERS, HOLLOW VENUS and various other Glass Eye Pix works.
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MICHAEL ELLENBOGEN (distributor) worked in the grip department of Fessenden's feature NO TELLING, and stayed on during post production as assistant to the producers, and co-author with Fessenden of LOW IMPACT FILMMAKING. In 1992 he produced and directed a short film, CHRONICLE OF WAR IN F#. In 1993 he returned to his native Albany, New York, to found Passport Cinemas, which exhibits and distributes short films. Ellenbogen is also the Creative director of The Albany International Short Film Festival, now in its 3rd year. In 1997 Ellenbogen teamed with Glass Eye Pix to distribute Fessenden's feature HABIT. Currently Ellenbogen is producing Ilya Chaiken's Margarita Happy Hour and working at October Films. (2/12/99)
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LARRY FESSENDEN (producer, writer, director, editor, actor) Fessenden's director credits include: NO TELLING(1991); HOLLOW VENUS; DIARY OF A GO-GO DANCER, (1989) THE IMPACT ADDICT VIDEOS (1986-89) and EXPERIENCED MOVERS (1985). (link to long bio)
RICK FIELD (writer, director) began his film career working in the sound department. After making a series of no-budget and low-budget shorts, many of which were edited at Glass Eye Pix, he became a writer/producer/director at VH1 in the On-Air Promos department. He is currently writing his fourth screenplay and is represented for commercials by Cielo Films of Santa Monica, California. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his dog, Lefty.
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TED GANNON (sound editor) worked sound editor and mixer on HABIT Jim McKay's GIRLSTOWN, Loch Phillips' USE YOUR HEAD, and various feature and short projects. He has worked on Television and Music projects for Nickolodeon, MTV, and MCA records.
DARROCH GREER (actor, producer) appears as Jack Sandler in EXPERIENCED MOVERS, Richie in HOLLOW VENUS and as Evel Knievel in STUNT. Greer has since moved to L.A. where he continues to act in theater works and to produce for Television.
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JESSE HARTMAN (producer, director, actor, musician) directed the short film HAPPY HOUR which won awards at the Berlin and Montreal film festivals, and produced Kelly Reichardt's RIVER OF GRASS (1993, Strand Releasing). He appears in HABIT as Lenny. He is the song-writer and lead vocalist for the band Sammy (Geffen).
MIRIAM HEALY-LOUIE (actress) plays Lillian Gaines in NO TELLING has appeared on stage in New York in the starring role of ROMEO AND JULIET directed by Bill Alexander, in Shakespeare in the Park's OTHELLO, and DANCING AT LUGHASA on Broadway. A graduate of New York University's MFA Acting Program, she has had major roles in productions at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, both the Dublin and Edinburgh Theatre Festivals, and in several BBC/Channel 4 productions.
RACHAEL HOROVITZ (producer) - Based in New York since 1988, Horovitz is currently head of developement at Fine Line Cinema. Before joining Glass Eye Pix to produce NO TELLING, she worked in marketing and distribution with Dino De Laurentiis' Los Angeles-based DEG since its inception in 1985 on such projects as David Lynch's BLUE VELVET, Roman Polanski's PIRATES and Bruce Beresford's CRIMES OF THE HEART.
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GEOFFREY KIDDE (composer) composed the haunting score for HABIT. He received his doctorate in Musical Arts from Columbia University and his Master's degree from the New England Conservatory of music. His composition for Symphony Orchestra, "Quest" is available on MMC New Century CDs. He has worked with Fessenden on two films before HABIT, THE FIELD (1980), NO TELLING (1991).
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TOM LAVERACK (musical score) - is a singer-songwriter and lead member of the group Just Desserts. He has collaborated with Fessenden on a number of projects, co-writing and co-producing the album Sentimental War in 1987 as well as a number of underground tapes, among them American Nursing Home (1981) and Cold Hearts and Whiskey (1989). As a soloist, Laverack has played in many of the New York clubs, including CBGB's, The Knitting Factory, Kenny's Castaways, Tramps, and the Pyramid Club. A prolific songwriter, he has produced several collections of songs on cassette, including solo works "As You Remain," "Longshot," "Adolescent Soul," and "Mercy, Mercy, Mr. Percy.". Two of his recordings were released as a single in the fall of 91 on Bar None Records. Laverack scored Fessenden's 1991 feature NO TELLING, and has written songs for Fessenden's films HOLLOW VENUS, and STUNT; A MUSICAL MOTION PICTURE and HABIT.
MARK LERNER (bass) is the founder of Hello Recording Club, a mail-order music store. He was the lead in the band Flat Old World, which put out the CD "Musicale." He has played in numerous bands, including Life in a Blender Canoe full of Strangers and Just Desserts. He runs a letterpress printing facility called Rag and Bone Shop.
DAVID LESLIE (performance artist) made his name in the 80's as The Impact Addict, performing One-time-only events in various locations in New York City including the Pyramid Club, Staten Island Ferry, The Knitting Factory, The Public Theatre, Performance Space 122, Franklin Furnace, The Kitchen, Cafe Bustelo, and streets in Chinatown and Soho. He was co-host with Fessenden of the meet-the-artist-salon series chat room in 1997, and before that as performance curator at THE KITCHEN 1992-1995. He works as a casting director specializing in authentic downtown types.
GEORGE LIKER (actor) was spotted by Fessenden in a chorus line at a show by Theater For the New City in the Lower East Side. He was immediately cast in HOLLOW VENUS. He also appears in HABIT.
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DEWAR MACLEOD (scholar) appears in EXPERIENCED MOVERS and sings on the 45 PAID put out on Earhorn Disks. MacLeod was a member of the secret society Humourville along with Fessenden and Harry Crosby about which nothing more should be said.
STEPHANE MITCHELL (production manager, extras casting, camera) graduated with a BFA from NYU and was camera assistant on several independent films before taking on huge responsibilities for HABIT.
REBECCA MOORE (original song) is a singer-songwriter and New York City stage and film actress. Her CD "Admiral Charcoal's Song" is out on the Knitting Factory Label. She appears in HABIT as "Susan."
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ERIC OGDEN (grip/electric) Before working on HABIT, Ogden worked as a storyboard artist, still photographer, art department and production assistant on films including the feature FOUR CORNERS OF NOWHERE which played Sundance in 94. He directed the 16mm short THE TOWER, and most recently finished production on a second short, THESE HILLS. He graduated with a BFA from University of Michigan's School of Art.
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STEPHEN RAMSEY (actor) was cast in the original Broadway production of THE GRAPES OF WRATH. A 1988 Performance Studies graduate of Northwestern University, Ramsey was chosen to be an apprentice member of the famed Actor's Theatre of Louisville for the 1988-1989 season, where he worked with directors Jim Simpson, Jon Jory and Bob Krakower. Ramsey made his feature debut with NO TELLING.
KELLY REICHARDT (writer, director, producer) was born in Miami, Florida in 1964. Her father worked as a crime scene detective and her mother as a narcotics agent. Kelly first discovered photography through a crime scene camera, and her first marijuana cigarette from an unattended evidence bag. While studying film and video at the Museum School in Boston, she made a trilogy of super 8 road movies and some of the first S8mm music videos to air on MTV. She then moved to New York City, working as an art director on a number of low budget feature films. In 1991 Kelly returned to Miami to write and later direct RIVER OF GRASS, which went on to receive critical acclaim at the Sundance and Berlin Film Festivals. The film also received the Silver Palm Feature Film Award and the Pierre Kast Award for Best Screenplay at Valencia Film Festival. Kelly is currently at work on her next feature, "The Royal Court," which will be filmed in Miami.
MICHAEL ROHATYN (original songs) scored Rebecca Miller's feature ANGELA, and Miller's short film FLORENCE. He recently composed music for Ira Sachs' feature THE DELTA and Fessenden's HABIT. He co-produced with Julie Cafritz the LP "Hard for Meazy for You" by the band Guv'ner.
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IRA SACHS (writer, director) director of THE DELTA, has shown his previous film LADY (16mm, 28 min.) in festivals around the world, including Sundance, Rotterdam, Melbourne and on the extensive gay and lesbian festival circuit. The film was broadcast nationally by SBS television in Australia and is distributed in the US by Frameline Distribution. His first film VAUDEVILLE (16mm, 55 min.) was also seen at many festivals, screening in Los Angeles, New Zealand, London, Chicago, and Toronto. While living in New York City, he has worked as a script reader for Martin Scorsese, as assistant to writer/performer Eric Bogosian and as assistant to the director Norman René on the film LONGTIME COMPANION. A graduate in literature from Yale University, Sachs was born in Memphis in 1965.
RICHARD SANDLER (photographer, videographer) works as a freelance photographer and videographer in New York City. His photo work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Independent, Time, Outtakes, Lear's, Print, and Picture. He curated "Living for the City: 20 Years of New York Street Photograhy" at the Parsons School of Design in December of 1997. He is currently completing a feature-length documentary Glass Eye Pix co-production called THE GODS OF TIME SQUARE, a five year look at a changing Times Square, focusing on the religious zealots who gather there to preach. An audio version of the GODS OF TIMES SQUARE was aired on NPR's All Things Considered.
JIRI SCHUBERT (actor) is an actor and producer of theater projects that have been launched all over the world. He appears in HOLLOW VENUS.
DAVID SHAW (Director of Photography) - has shot dozens of well-known music videos for, among others, Technotronics, Pat Benetar, Dee Lite and Whitney Houston, and most recently, the abortion rights public service announcement, Choice directed by Juliet Cuming. Having been behind the camera on several New York independent shorts such as Grimness: A HARD DAY'S NIGHT, DORIS AND INEZ SPEAK THE TRUTH, and WILDBLADE, Shaw makes his feature film debut with NO TELLING.
JAY SILVER (Director of Photography, Camera assistant) comes from Chicago where he worked as second camera assistant on The TV series THE UNTOUCHABLES. He continues to work in New York as camera assistant on studio and independent features, including HABIT. He has worked as director of photography on several short films, including Eric Ogden's THESE HILLS.
SUSAN A STOVER (producer) After practicing as a litigator for five years in New York City, Susan left the law to produce independent films. She made her beginnings in 1993 as associate producer of Kelly Reichardt's RIVER OF GRASS; associate producer of Tod Solondz's WELCOME TO THE DOLL HOUSE and Fessenden's HABIT. She was co-producer of Rachel Reichman's WORK, and produced Patrick Stetner's short FLUX, and line produced Bill Oliver's short THE DEBUTANTES. Stover has been nominated for a 1998 Spirit award for producing work on recent features such as HIGH ART, LOVE GOD, THE STICKY FINGERS OF TIME, HABIT, and RIVER OF GRASS.
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DAYTON TAYLOR (producer) was production manager on Fessenden's 1991 feature NO TELLING, and producer of HABIT. He has produced several multimedia pieces for New York based theater artist John Jesurun, and has assistant directed and production managed many independent features, documentaries, TV commercials, and music videos. His own short film, LOVE'S CHOICE, is in the permanent film collection at the Museum of Modern Art. He is the President of Digital Air Inc, and the inventor of a patent-pending camera system which has been featured in American Cinematographer and Scientific American magazines.
WHARTON TIERS (musician, music producer) is the founder of Fun City! in New York, a studio where he has engineered and produced music for Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr., Swans, Helmet, and Glenn Branca. Tiers has recorded music for evry Glass Eye Pix production since EXPERIENCED MOVERS as well as the 1987 Just Desserts album "Sentimental War" and the current album as well, on which he plays drums. He is currently touring with The Wharton Tiers Ensemble promoting his CD "Brighter than Life" (Atavistic records).
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BECK UNDERWOOD (writer, production design, publisher, artist) - has worked as an art director, painter and illustrator in New York since 1983. Underwood was the production designer of NO TELLING and HOLLOW VENUS; DIARY OF A GO-GO DANCER and has designed the logos for Glass Eye Pix since its inception. . She wrote NO TELLING in collaboration with Fessenden, and continues to develope scripts with him. Her own s8mm and 16mm films are animated fantasies, most recently the stop motion film THAT CREEPY OLD DOLL (1999) to premiere at the NY Animation festival. Underwood is the founder and publisher of ZuZu, the internationally distributed bi-monthly newspaper for kids that flowered 1992-95, and can now be found on the World Wide Web at http://www.zuzu.org. (updated 3/14/99)
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DAVID VAN TIEGHEM (actor, musician) is world-known for his percussion-theatre performances, featured at Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center as well as the entire circuit of contemporary performance spaces. As a musician, he has worked with brian eno, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson and Stevie Nicks and composed the scores for Lizzie Borden's film WORKING GIRLS and Penn and Teller's INVISIBLE THREAD. For NO TELLING, he composed an array of sounds that underscores the mood of the film, and he played the role of Alex Vine. As an actor, Van Tieghem has appeared at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre and on television in Robert Ashley's PERFECT LIVES.
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ALEX WOLFE (producer, director, writer, actor) has directed short films including CRACKERJACK, and has acted in features including BAD APPLES. He worked with Fessenden on HABIT (1981), and EXPERIENCED MOVERS. He works on location sound for features including WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE and LOVE GOD.
HEATHER WOODBURY (writer, actress) wrote and starred in the Fessenden directed HOLLOW VENUS: DIARY OF A GO-GO DANCER (1989) based on her own experiences as a dancer. Film roles: Amir Naderi's MANHATTAN: AVENUE A, B, C and Joel Schlemovitz's VENUS IN FURS. She has been a writer and performer in New York's downtown scene for ten years, presenting solo shows including WHITE GILT, ANTAGONY, and DELUGIANS OF GRANDEUR at venues including LaMama, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, and P.S. 122. She established the Lower East Side performance club Cafe Bustello which flowered 1987-1990. Currently she is touring her own solo epic performance piece, HEATHER WOODBURY'S "WHAT EVER".
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