Film Maker’s Bio
Jeffrey Hall has worked in media and multimedia in colleges, universities, museums, and schools, producing over 300 films, as well as radio programs, multi-media e-books, websites, an online course system, educational computer apps, and music. He has also taught film-making, educational application design, and electronic music composition in colleges and schools.
In college he studied experimental film at Filmworks, in the Kent State University Department of Art, as well as studying philosophy, psycholinguistics and music. The director of Filmworks, Richard Myers, brought in important experimental film makers as guest lecturers and seminar leaders such as Stan Brakhage, Ken Jacobs, Tony Conrad, Michael Snow, Robert Breer, Beth B, John Waters and Albert Maysles. After college, Hall spent a year making an experimental film at the Cleveland Institute of Art before moving to New York City to work as an educational technologist and media producer. More recently he was an artist-in-residence at the Benjamin Franklin School in Barcelona, Spain, where he taught digital music composition.
Nominally his residence is in New York City, but now travels throughout Europe and the US working on handmade films. Currently he is in Arizona, working on a film with the working title Psycho: The Twice-Told
Tale of Marion Crane about the Alfred Hitchcock film and Van Sant remake of Psycho.