Early Impressions of UC Berkeley
This is a short documentation of how the first few weeks at Berkeley felt, after I found a place and started school. Excuse the illustration with great cell phone photos, but my even better DSLR is...
View ArticleLocation Scouting and Writing for a Chaplin-inspired Short Film at Berkeley
Prologue & Getting the Idea In one of my classes, Film 105 (Early Cinema, 1895-ca.1920), one of my colleagues asked “Can we also do a short instead of a final research paper?”. That student,...
View ArticleGetting Chaplin’s Film Crew Together – in a World of Theory @ UC Berkeley
In order to shoot “All I Want Is Silence”, I need a crew. There are only two problems: UC Berkeley’s film program is a film studies, not a film production program I am new here, so I have no idea who...
View ArticleFilm 105 – Senior Seminar on Silent Film. A course with Prof. Kaes at UC...
This class is a “senior seminar” – it is only meant for people who have completed their undergraduate studies in Berkeley and are in their last year before graduation. I figured that I could smuggle...
View ArticleExperiencing the Headquarters of Facebook and Google
On two different occasions, I had the privilege to experience the Facebook and Google headquarter, respectively. If you have never been, let me tell you what they are like – from my limited perspective...
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