Documentaries Lifestyle

For the last couple years I've been photographing payphones. As a documentary filmmaker, I always viewed this effort as a potential documentary in the making. Indeed, it has become just that, but not in the way I was expecting. My Instagram channel @payphonesoflosangeles is the medium for this ongoing exploration of the rapidly disappearing public phone in Los Angeles. Micro docs such as this one (my personal favorite) have become an increasingly frequent ingredient to the feed. Check out the dedicated @payphonesoflosangeles page under the Work menu above.

In 1980’s Los Angeles, the “world’s smallest professional basketball team” composed of recognizable-but-typecast actors finds itself the unlikely vanguard of a revolutionary movement to bring little people into the public eye as something other than objects of curiosity. World Premiere, SXSW 2016.

Artist Howard Lazar (b. 1947) has been sculpting since the 1990s. His work can be seen at museums around the country, including the American Jazz Museum where five of his busts are in the permanent collection. His bust of American entertainer and activist Billy Barty was unveiled on July 21, 2018 at the Museum of the San Fernando Valley in Northridge, CA. This interview with the artist was recorded the same day.

A buddy/roadtrip/docu-dramedy following an idealistic adventurer and his co-pilot on their journey down Route 66 in a ramshackle VW bus. Dennis Hopper "Guerrilla Award," AFME 2013; Best Feature Documentary, DFFLA 2013; Best Feature Documentary, CGIFF 2013; Official Selection, Austin Film Festival 2013

Despite its age, this short documentary on the moustache continues to enjoy regular invitations to all things hirsute and most recently landed Ryan a co-host gig on the popular wet shaving podcast Moustache & Blade. Full version available on Vimeo. Best Short Doc, Festivus Film Festival 2010; Best Doc Shorter, CGIFF 2010

Submission to the global film experiment "One Day on Earth." Selected from over 4,000 entries and included in the feature film.

My submission to Ridley Scott and Kevin Macdonald's global experimental film Life in a Day. Of over 4,500 hours of submitted material, Beverages made the Top 100 Hours of footage, though it was not included in the finished feature film. Nevertheless, the simplicity of story combined with the masterful editing as well as sound mixing makes for a lovely little piece unto itself.