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

I have been very lucky and blessed with great teachers since childhood. Growing up in Buenos Aires and later living in Tel Aviv and Los Angeles, I was always surrounded by creative people. Yet my seven years living in Rome with my wife Ruth were critical. We had two great teachers. Bruno Zevi, a historian and critic, who stimulated us to learn from architecture and art history; and a genial architect, Luigi Pellegrin, who taught us to look at architecture, art, film, and our surroundings with a critical eye. He also led us to study Frank Lloyd Wright’s works and ideas. This brought us to travel to photograph over one hundred of his works across America. In parallel, I loved good cinema since I was a teenager, and later, when living in Rome, we encountered some great filmmakers. Yet it was in 2012 when I started to do short documentaries, mostly about architecture and the arts.

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

Of course! Look at Ai Wei Wei, at Davis Guggenheim’s “An Inconvenient Truth.” Look at Picasso’s Guernica, at Poliforum Siqueiros in Mexico City. Our great mentor, Pellegrin, was a revolutionary architect. And I also had heroes in other disciplines.

-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?

I would hope so, but I am not sure. The Medici family significantly impacted Renaissance art, yet their regime was bloody. Great art of the 19th and 20th centuries did not stop two world wars. As for today’s media and social networks, there is much confusion and lack of education to discern what is meaningful art and what is not. In doing architecture and art-related films and considering the short span of attention of most people, I am cautiously optimistic.

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

I am concerned about the future of the planet. We need exponential transformation at an unprecedented speed and scale to safeguard our existence and that of future generations on this planet. How to make a meaningful contribution through film is not easy. I am considering my next project to relate to this subject. As a sneak peek of that direction, the trailer from a previous short documentary, A Permaculture Path, may give you some idea of what I am trying to do. To watch the trailer, please go to: https://vimeo.com/936452710