I am a Swiss / Vietnamese documentary filmmaker (Director/DP/Editor) based in New York City since 1999. I make films about music, art & culture.
My brother Jan and I made the Swiss/Japanese feature documentary “Negative: Nothing” which had a 3 years theatrical run in Japan, Germany and Switzerland and been licensed among others by SWISS Airlines and the UPLINK theater in Tokyo. Before that I was on the roaster of music show “Newtown Sessions” (*VICE/NOISEY). My most recent personal project “Record New York” is a music diary featuring impromptu performances with local artists around New York City.
I am a director and co-founder of production company Thom Pictures, Inc where we produce commissioned films for clients in art and culture. I have also worked as freelance video editor and director of photography over the past 25 years. My work has been featured on Nowness, VICE/NOISEY and The New York Times. The most recent project I shot as DP is the comedy “The Nobodies” by Greg Bratman and Dusty Brown featuring Sutton Foster, Jim Gaffigan, Ellie Kemper (The Office) and Jack McBrayer (30 Rock).
I currently produce short films and social media videos for the Guggenheim Museum documenting and promoting its collection and exhibitions. Recent highlights include “Cecilia Vicuña: "Ex-Termination Living Quipu" which premiered at the Metrograph cinema in New York, the experimental short film “The Immediate Present with Alex Katz“ (Vimeo Staff Pick), and “The Afterlife of Eva Hesse’s “Expanded Expansion” which screened at the Guggenheim Museum as part of the exhibition “Eva Hesse: Expanded Expansion.”
(Photo Credit: Steven Ebling)