Filmmaker and university professor specializing in documentaries. Completed a Master of Fine Arts at the University of California in San Diego in 1980. Associate professor at the San Diego State University since 1987. He has received funding from the Grace Foundation and the University of Oklahoma, where he started teaching in 1983 until he relocated to California. His work has been displayed at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York; the Wexter Center for the Arts, in Columbus; the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston; and the European Media Art Festival in Osnabruck, Germany. His videos have been shown on American TV networks such as WNET, WGBH, HBO and Sundance Television, and at the International Public Television Conference in Stockholm, Sweden. Frequent collaborators include the artists Dan Boord and Luis Valdovino.