-What and who has inspired you the most in your artistic career?

Cinema, with its broad scope within all the arts and Music, has kept my Imagination in its grip and provided me with a medium that painting, sculpture and drawing inhabit as well.  I grew up around Expressionist painting and sculpture; one of my family members owned a gallery.  Abstraction is central to my vision.  Filmmakers such as Fassbinder, Pasolini, Agnes Varda, Lars von Trier, Kubrick, Godard, Fellini, Satyajit Ray, Iniarritu. Mira Nair, and Sofia Coppola are some of the greatest influencers on my cinematic vision.

-Every true artist is also a revolutionary against power. Do you think there is still room today
to express one’s revolution through art?

It seems to me that there is a huge amount of room today for one to express one’s relationship to revolution in Art.  To provide a counter to the status quo is to be an artist.  To lend a vision that could be fantastical yet still relatable, to bring images forward that stimulate inner creativity, that question commonplace and time-worn systems of power, regardless of the relationship to ordinary and usual scripts is still possible, maybe even more possible today.  We see and know that our dreams by day and night become realized through film and music, with reference to the cosmos, the sea, and the land.   As long as we are breathing, we have the power to pit ourselves against systems of power that we have been born into.

-We live in a world where, unfortunately, war still exists. Do you believe that if there were more dissemination of art through the media and social networks, the world would be a more peaceful place?

Fortunately there are ways to have one’s attitude and possible solutions to war, genocide, murder, and all forms of violence presented to the community, regardless of border and personal commitment.  If I make a short film that for one person is fantasy, that same film for another person is inspiration.  To reach the widest audience one must touch on what is closest to the heart.  Violence of any kind is not heartfelt; we have a vocabulary that should be more available via the media and social platforms to foster the hope that is necessary to encourage a kind of mass empathy, at least through our art.  If our art does move those who support violence to question their inner convictions, more art like this could survive in the media and reach all. 

-Are you working on a new project? If so, can you give us a sneak peek?

The next project takes its concept from Pirandello’s exploration of the concept of the mask by removing the golden mask of the pharaohs of ancient Egypt and at the same time telling the story of the deceased whose mummy is buried with the objects belonging to his life as told by the hieroglyphics on his tomb.  He is not a pharaoh, and therefore his life is told