BLUE COUP D’ETAT

a special collaboration with davi russo, who is both the narrator and photographer of this piece
he traveled from shanghai to shangri-la with five other artists
the warmth of his photos and the sensitivity of his thoughts are very dear to me
thank you davi

RIVES AND RIVES
a bit of poetry and guitar from the brothers rives
thanks guys for letting us do the movie

directed by derek cianfrance
edited by jim helton
photgraphed by claudio miranda
produced by @radical.media

directed by derek cianfrance
edited by jim helton and ron patane
photographed by peter donahue
produced by @radical.media

directed by derek cianfrance
ddb creative team - tom mcdonnell, joanne diglio, bonnie lutz, howard finkelstein, and marilyn kam - good people
graphic design by davi russo
photography by ayumi sakamoto
music by sixtwo (he did a ton of music for battlegrounds, love his stuff)

my first commerical

directed by derek cianfrance
ddb creative team - tom mcdonnell, joanne diglio, bonnie lutz, howard finkelstein, and marilyn kam - good people
graphic design by davi russo
photography by ayumi sakamoto
music by sixtwo (he did a ton of music for battlegrounds, love his stuff)

directed by derek cianfrance
photography by bill winters and davi russo
edited by jim helton and ron patane
title design by davi russo

here is a scene from the battlegrounds tv series i did for nike and mtv a couple years ago (2005)

directed by derek cianfrance
co-produced by jim helton
this scene edited by jim helton and joey curtis
additional editing for the series done by two other great editors - ron patane and jonah moran
title design by davi russo
still photography by davi russo and atsushi nishijima
videography by derek cianfrance, paul bozymowski, and bill winters
this was a really great project to work on though it was very hard to do in the short amount of time we had (i had three days off in three months), the people i worked with were amazing and i keep up with them all and work with them all to this day
i’d like to also credit and thank the kids from new york and chicago that participated in the show as well as executive producers justin wilkes and bill davenport - these guys gave me my first shot at being a head editor on a tv series and gave us a lot of creative freedom as well as great creative input
and this wouldn’t be complete without thanking jon kamen, the man who saw me in a elevator one day after my first job with radical media was over (think it was the annie lennox job though technically i did some sound work and title work on “shots in the dark” but nobody really knew about that at the time) and asked me what i was doing and when i told him nothing he said, “we’ll have to keep you busy” - i’ve been working ever since

jay z goes to miami to meet timbaland and hears the track for “dirt off your shoulder” for the first time

directed by mike warren and patrick paulson
scene edited by jim helton
additional editors on the movie - ron pantane, jonah moran, and zuk

from battlegrounds year 2 “king of the world”
one on one basketball players from the u.s., france, italy, spain, and germany compete in the nike battlegrounds king of the world tournament
american erron maxey prepares for his game against amara sy of france in paris

directed by derek cianfrance
co-produced by mike warren
scene edited by jim helton
graphics by davi russo
videography by derek cianfrance, paul bozymowski, and bill winters
music by dare diablo
another great collaboration with a great group of people at @radical.media
see other battlegrounds for more details but a few names - justin wilkes, bill davenport, ron patane, zuk, josh pearson

all analog, made on film with an optical printer, some lighting effects, and some hand processing on one of them
a collaboration with my friend steve hidinger back pre-1999
again not happy with compression, i’m working on it….
but if you can’t wait here it is

another one i did for annie
she didn’t like this one either
this was part of a project headed by kristi zea
derek shot it and i added some of my own footage in the layering

unreleased work i did for annie lennox
unfortunately i don’t think she liked it
this was part of a project headed by kristi zea
derek shot it and i added some of my own footage in the layering

show about the history of crime photography

directed by derek cianfrance (his first tv show at radical media)
editing and sound design by jim helton - all photographed effects derek and i shot together with a video camera and flashlights for the title, nothing digital except standard dissolves

yeah i worked on one of these too