A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
H. Paul Moon (zenviolence.com) is a filmmaker, professor and attorney based in New York City and Washington, D.C. whose work concentrates on the performing arts. He teaches editing, and manages a network of online communities at focuspulling.com and docofilm.com that keep pace with new camera technologies and documentary news. Major works include "Sitka: A Piano Documentary" about the craftsmanship of Steinway pianos, and "Quartet for the End of Time" (quatuor.xyz) about Olivier Messiaen’s transcendent WWII composition. Moon's first feature, an acclaimed and award-winning documentary about the life and music of American composer Samuel Barber (samuelbarberfilm.com), premiered on PBS, and he is currently finishing another documentary feature about Western poetry (westdocumentary.com). His ongoing bicentennial multimedia works on poet Walt Whitman are featured at whitmanonfilm.com. Moon's latest film is an operatic adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" (scroogeopera.com), awarded "Critic's Choice" by Opera News as a "thoroughly enjoyable film version, insightfully conceived and directed" with "first-rate and remarkably illustrative storytelling."
Cinematography:
2024 Shadow Axe
Director:
2015 Sitka: A Piano Documentary
2017 Quartet for the End of Time
2017 Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty
2018 America - Walt Whitman
2018 The Passion of Scrooge
2020 Facing West
2020 György Ligeti: Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes
2023 Panorama
2024 Shadow Axe
Director of Photography:
2015 Sitka: A Piano Documentary
2016 Collective: Unconscious
2016 First Day Out
2017 Quartet for the End of Time
2017 Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty
2018 America - Walt Whitman
2018 The Passion of Scrooge
2020 Facing West
2020 György Ligeti: Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes
2023 Panorama
2024 Shadow Axe
Editor:
2015 Sitka: A Piano Documentary
2016 Collective: Unconscious
2016 First Day Out
2017 Quartet for the End of Time
2017 Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty
2018 America - Walt Whitman
2018 The Passion of Scrooge
2020 Facing West
2020 György Ligeti: Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes
2023 Panorama
2024 Shadow Axe
Producer:
2012 The Saxon New World
2015 Sitka: A Piano Documentary
2016 Collective: Unconscious
2016 First Day Out
2017 Quartet for the End of Time
2017 Samuel Barber: Absolute Beauty
2018 America - Walt Whitman
2018 The Passion of Scrooge
2020 Facing West
2020 György Ligeti: Poème Symphonique For 100 Metronomes
2023 Panorama
2024 Shadow Axe
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