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I DON’T NEED TO KNOW ANYTHING

I’ve been listening. Lots of brave and well informed writers, journalists, ( NY Times, New Yorker, Washington Post) other artists and...

Epic Digital

Excerpted from: THE GIFT AND THE PUNISHMENT, autobiography of Rob Nilsson: “If pressed, many cinephiles would admit a magnetic attraction...

Faithful Fools

The Tenderloin yGroup was created in San Francisco in 1996. For almost 10 years we met once a week for 3-4 hour sessions at the Faithful...

Theories of Science and War

My painting to the left is called "Demagogue with Sunglasses". Scientists used Einstein’s theories to send space ships into the universe....

The Calling

Actors have a calling. The deepest, richest, grasp of animal being is the first step. A lion cannot rule without a roar. A loon must...

Direct Action Cinema

Direct Action Cinema is… …a practice created to allow actors and technicians high freedom and deep responsibility to create memorable...

The 15,000 | Join the Cinematic Renaissance

I’ve always liked the slogan, “Opinion rules the world.” The 15,000 is a chronicle of opinions I’d like to have more heft in the...

ROB NILSSON