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I think it may be too late for art just for art's sake. We need to interact with one another in creative ways like never before.

We need to create lasting documents that show our children that we can and should make peace.

watch movies here

How can I remember this if it never happened to me?

We produced Kalia Yang's
The Place Where We Were Born

portraits of anguish, compulsion and despair.

Are we biologically prepared to differentiate memories of what is real from mediated images - simulations of what might, conceivably, be remembered? If not, what are we liable for?

trailer for coffee house press publication of Kalia Yang's The Latehomecomer.

trailer for Bellevue Literary Press publication of Charlee Brodsky's protraits of mental illness.

John's teaching career has spanned three decades and brought him in touch with adults and children from many backgrounds and many lands.
resume (pdf).

John's work has been accepted at Cannes (2001), been recognized by The National Endowment for the Arts, The McKnight Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The St Paul Foundation, The Minnesota State Arts Board and The Minnesota Composers Forum.

John's work has been seen at the Museum of Modern Art, in London, Copenhagen,
and Lisbon and before the British Film Institute, and the Centre National de la
Cinematographie, Paris as a feature of The BitScreen Streaming Cinema 2.0 traveling
festival of net films. Cataloged in “Films For An Historical Anthology of Web Cinema,” at
Future Cinema, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2002 and cataloged as part of "The Unconvention" by The Minnesota State History Center in 2008.

Winner: Blue Ribbon, Best in Show, Gallery RFD's "Growing up and Looking Back:"

Contracted in 2007 to complete color grading and fx for Zach Lebeau's The Rogue

john obrien resume (pdf).

An Interactive Narrative
The Citizen-

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I think it may be too late for art just for art's sake. We need to interact with one another in creative ways like never before.	We need to create lasting documents that show our children that we can and should make peace.	watch movies here


How can I remember this if it never happened to me?	We produced Kalia Yang's The Place Where We Were Born	portraits of anguish, compulsion and despair.
Are we biologically prepared to differentiate memories of what is real from mediated images - simulations of what might, conceivably, be remembered? If not, what are we liable for?	trailer for coffee house press publication of Kalia Yang's The Latehomecomer.	trailer for Bellevue Literary Press publication of Charlee Brodsky's protraits of mental illness.
John's teaching career has spanned three decades and brought him in touch with adults and children from many backgrounds and many lands. resume (pdf).	John's work has been accepted at Cannes (2001), been recognized by The National Endowment for the Arts, The McKnight Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The St Paul Foundation, The Minnesota State Arts Board and The Minnesota Composers Forum.	John's work has been seen at the Museum of Modern Art, in London, Copenhagen, and Lisbon and before the British Film Institute, and the Centre National de la Cinematographie, Paris as a feature of The BitScreen Streaming Cinema 2.0 traveling festival of net films. Cataloged in “Films For An Historical Anthology of Web Cinema,” at Future Cinema, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2002 and cataloged as part of "The Unconvention" by The Minnesota State History Center in 2008. Winner: Blue Ribbon, Best in Show, Gallery RFD's "Growing up and Looking Back:"
Contracted in 2007 to complete color grading and fx for Zach Lebeau's The Rogue	john obrien resume (pdf).	An Interactive Narrative The Citizen-